Street Traffic in Dhaka

A couple of months ago I had to go to Dhaka, Bangladesh for work.  Its kind of hard to give an accurate accounting of what its like in Dhaka using words and I didn’t really have an opportunity to take any pictures because of my work schedule.

Check out the video in this article to get a decent taste of what the streets are like there.  It’s actually a little bit worse in real life in terms of how crowded with cars the streets are than this video portrays.  Also know that there are a ton of vendors like this boy in the streets and a ton of beggars, most of whom are in really bad shape right next to them.

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Lightning Over Dhaka

While I was in Delhi for work, they needed me to go to Dhaka, Bangladesh for a couple of days to deal with some stuff there.  There’s really not a lot to say about Dhaka, because its not the most exciting place in the world to go.  Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world.  Its also one of the most densely populated.  Wikipedia says there are 13 million people in the city, but I also got estimates of closer to 16 million from people there.   Continue reading

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