Yes! Crowds don't normally bother me but I got claustrophobic in Dhaka
pretty often! The people couldn't have been nicer but most of the young
people wanted to take a "selfie" with the strange foreigners and sometimes
mobbed us with cell phones. We actually had to be rescued several times!
Tina
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:45 PM john hudson <om4t@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just checked the Wiki; Dhaka's density of population is >115,000 / square
> mile. Tom looks to have captured an un-busy street scene :-)
>
> jh
>
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> On 02/07/19 03:06 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, guys! I've never seen worse traffic than Bangladesh and the rural
> > roads are almost non-existent! More photos coming soon.
> >
> > Here is a Dhaka street scene that Tom took with my M240:
> > http://www.pbase.com/image/168788227
> >
> > I appreciate your taking a look.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:04 AM Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Well done getting home safely, Tina.
> > >
> > > That’s a different viewpoint of a bus, but I can imagine that most will
> > > have damage to the exterior. I used to live in Calcutta and Delhi and
> it
> > > was a similar situation there.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > > On 7 Feb 2019, at 13:44, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm home! I've downloaded all of the photos and am now starting to
> edit
> > > > them. Here's the first. Did I mention the traffic in Bangladesh?? We
> > > > always thought the worst traffic in the world was in Tehran, Iran,
> but
> > > > there is a new contender. I have never seen worst traffic than in
> > > > Bangladesh! Nobody pays any attention to the street lights, the lane
> > > > markers, or the police standing in the street waving their sticks.
> The
> > > > only traffic control is the horn which everybody blows constantly.
> Every
> > > > bus looks like this one:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589 <
> > > http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589>
> > > >
> > > > The buses are independently owned and make money by getting people to
> > > their
> > > > destination as fast as possible and loading up another bus full of
> people
> > > > to deliver.
> > > >
> > > > This is with the M240 and 24/2.8 out of the window. I took lots of
> > > photos
> > > > out of the car windows since we were stuck in traffic for hours and
> hours
> > > > and hours every time we tried to go anywhere!
> > > >
> > > > I'll be adding more photos to this site as I edit them and posting
> some
> > > on
> > > > FB. Comments are greatly appreciated, always.
> > >
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