Not cheap, though, at Sing$50 a head with a couple of draught beers.
Clarke Quay...lots of eateries, including Jumbo Seafood...lots of coloured lights...
Not cheap, though, at Sing$50 a head with a couple of draught beers.
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A couple of minutes out from Suwanbhumi Airport, the plane brings us over the Gulf of Thailand and onto land...however, it appears a big tide has flooded farmlands..
I felt I got good value on the ride from hotel to Dhaka airport...for a while the road ran parallel to a train line...we were overtaken by a train, and I got this view of the front of the diesel loco as it chugged past.
There was a loud BANG in the street below my hotel window...almost immediately a dozen police in riot costume...a crowd gathered and milled around...then it all disbursed... On advice, I am departing this country and will work from Singapore for a while until the unrest abates.
I was in Dhaka for 144 hours...131 of which coincided with the Blockade. I must have a lousy sense of timing! Late night...badminton in the Mall carpark.
Multi-use spaces make a lot of sense in a cramped, congested city. No traffic lights. nor zebra crossings, so...
dash...prop on the island to take snap and watch for a small gap...dash! Stepping out, in the early morning sunshine.
Civil unrest, due to political turmoil, has caused me to be pretty-much confined to the safe haven of my international hotel. From my window I observe that walking is the commonest means of getting around in this part of the city. Fibre-optic cabling, Dhaka style. This not pretty!
The internet age is upon Bangladesh...at least in Dhaka...but, as in many cities, there is a struggle to find a meaningful plan for all that fibre. In my hotel it seems they have found a simple solution to the common problem of patchy coverage of internet access in the rooms...there is a wired/wireless router in every room! In the streets of Dhaka...a profusion of rickshaws...pedal-powered and motorised.
I arrived at the commencement of a political protest, in the form of a 72 hour General Strike and Commerce Blockade, so the rickshaws do not have much competition from Taxis, Buses or Private Vehicles...I suppose this can be seen as Glass-half-full by rickshaw operators. |
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