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Green Bangladesh

Oi there. A new post from a new place under the Sun, on the third little rock. This time about a 100 kilometers east of Dhaka, the capitol of Bangladesh.

What to say about this place? I was travelling here for two days with little sleep, so I could hardly keep my eyes open during the ride from the airport to here. But what I did see is that it is very chaotic. Driving through the towns is extremely stressful as there is absolutely no regard to traffic rules. It is as if you have a bigger vehicle and a stronger horn, you go first.

Big passenger buses dented, scratched hitting each other like those cars in amusement parks, people running across the street, status of the road is like you’re riding off road all the time, jumping left and right up and down, for hours. I don’t know how I managed to sleep all that time, but somehow I did.

Those little three wheel motor bikes or what you call it chaotically going across the road with no regards if they going in their lane or yours, or against incoming traffic.

I only took a few pictures on my way here. As I got a new 360 panorama camera, some of the photos you can pan all the way around.

One is from a REALLY nice hotel that stood out from all the other structures in the area. I took the photo after one hour nap when I had to continue my trip.

PAN AROUND WITH MOUSE!

Other is on the way to my destination when I woke up, probably because I smashed my head on the window again. 🙂

Towns look pretty poor as you can see from the photo, but that is just the way it is I guess. It’s probably getting better as in the rest of the world.

PAN AROUND WITH MOUSE!

Between towns the landscape is beautifully green, with rice fields, lakes and rivers everywhere. The road is raised from all that flooded area so there is water and rice fields everywhere around you.

THIS ONE DOESN’T PAN! 🙂
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I read this is the end of the rainy season, but the rain is coming down pretty strong almost everyday. It is hot, humid, with insects and lizards all around.  Haven’t seen any snakes though.

The area I’m in are rice fields, with some green pastures with cows, goats, chickens, bamboo trees, palms. This is my first time in south Asia so it looks different than anything I’ve seen before.  I need to write it down, maybe I keep the memory.

I plan to take more photos and videos on the way back to Dhaka, so I’ll probably update this post and add them here. Stay tuned…

Check in from Qatar

Just checking in with my travel log. Well, since my last check in from Kazakhstan in August I’ve been around. From Kazakhstan went to Croatia for a few days, then went to Houston TX in September.

Great times in Houston, spent some time in training, some time working, but also relaxing in Houston parks, restaurants, museums.

Had the lucky opportunity to bring my family with me so it was really great to spend some time with them in Texas.

Anyway, at the end of September, went back to Croatia, for two days, then left of for Saudi Arabia for a month. Saudi is like a second home for me now already. Loved it from the first moment I saw it.

First time I was driving from the Dammam airport to the hotel in Dhahran I had some strange feeling as I’ve seen that road before. Maybe in some previous life or something, but the feeling was definitely there.

So although travelling in Saudi is dangerous, and there is a lot of trash and car tyres besides the road (people don’t seem to care), I simply love the wild desert landscape, the immense heat of the place in the summer, Arabic food, Indian food, water tastes great when you work in the sun :).

Also, when you experience this

it puts some things into perspective. Video is not mine, but I’ve been through a few of these. They’re fun.. 😀

So, went home from Saudi at the end of October, spent a few days home, then left for Qatar on November 10th.

First time in Qatar. That I actually got to get out of Doha airport. What to say about Doha, from what I saw in the few hours I was there. It kind of looks like they’re aspiring to be like Dubai, but they are not there yet. 15 story building across the street from my hotel, that looked relatively in sound state was being teared down, probably they will build a shopping mall or something similar. Stayed at the Grand Regal hotel. Food was very good, bar was also good… 🙂

So now, I’ve been working here for some three weeks, temperature is perfect at around 25 degrees Celsius. It was actually raining for a few days, but I don’t think the desert around me noticed. Working close to Dukhan city, so went there for McDonalds, Dominos pizza… I have to admit, I like Arabic food better… 🙂

Read that Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world. Haven’t noticed it really. Probably that’s because I haven’t been in the right places. Doha seems nice, but not like Dubai.

But there is 4G signal everywhere and the wireless internet is really flying here and it’s not that expensive.

What else…. Nothing really, I leave for home in nine days. This time I hope I’ll get a month of. One can hope… 🙂

Until next time, stay safe!