No Traffic! It’s a Holiday!
Previous Next Mr. Zia, our guide, picked us up at the Dhaka guest house Friday morning to begin our three day driving tour of the northeastern part of Bangladesh before we head to Chittagong on Sunday. The 7 hour, 222 km drive from Dhaka to Sylhet was the most fascinating road experience Kevin and I […]
Everyone Flies First Class to Dhaka
Previous Next The passengers on the flight from Dubai to Dhaka were yet altogether different from those on the Atlanta to Dubai flight. On the 13 hour flight from the US the mostly male passengers were heading to war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan to do all kinds of work that most of us don’t even know […]
Bangladeshi Time
Previous Next We have been trying to get on Bangladeshi time but it is proving difficult. It is 4:30 am. We are wide awake and are sitting in bed with our computers on our laps working on the data set for the Asian University for Women. Because we are starving and we are in the […]
