Here's what I was writing.....
Even though we still don't have a good camera, I constantly take pictures. Since the pictures won't always fit in with any topic, it seemed like a good idea to put them here. So here are some random pictures from around.
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| This is a school bus in Dhaka. No kidding. Notice the uniforms. |
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| Most are blue, but some are green or black or other colors. |
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| If you look closely at this picture, you will see several school trolleys trying to cross a major intersection while traffic cops try to keep those cars from coming. Note the guy carrying carpets on his head in between the school trolleys. This is Gulshan Circle 2, or DIT 2, right up the road from us and where we can find a market, grocery store, and all kinds of other stores: hardware, paint, electronics, pharmaceuticals, pirated DVDs and software, paper products, plastic products, phone accessories, toiletries....you name it, it's probably there somewhere. Many of those doorways you see across the way lead into mazes of hallways with tiny kiosk-sized shops of all sorts. Also, in the foreground you see a little green car-looking thing. That is a CNG or tuk-tuk. It is tiny taxi that runs on compressed natural gas (hence, CNG). We (embassy folk) are not allowed to take them. One more thing to look at: you don't see many women out and about. It's not that they are never out, but there are always more men on the streets. Women tend to come out early in the morning. |
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| School trolleys aren't the only thing on wheels. This is the garbage man. |
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| These tiny rickshaw garbage "trucks" bring garbage to the dumps that are located all over the city. Every single place where there is garbage, you'll find people shoveling through it looking for recyclables and other things to sell. Just to be fair, there are also large garbage trucks that service bigger trash receptacles. |
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