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Baby monkey in Rangamati, Chittagong hill tracts
Dhaka harbor at sunset
The man-eating tigers of the Sundarbans
I’m not sure why I expected to see a Royal Bengal tiger slink through the swamp during our recent boat trip through part of Sundarbans National Park. This is the largest mangrove forest in the world. It’s wild and humid and full of thick mud that sucked in my Chacos (no, Joanna, we’re not in [...]
Cutest baby ever
Seriously!
The village life
So far, the highlight of Bangladesh has been our trip to the villages of the southwest, just above Sundarbans National Park. After freaking out in the chaos of Dhaka, we could finally relax in the green, sunny, open-hearted countryside.
We spent most of our time in the village of Kalikabari, a predominantly Hindu village built [...]
Salty soil and worried farmers in southwestern Bangladesh
I’ve read plenty of reports on how rising sea levels in the Bay of Bengal are slowly killing the fertile plains of southwestern Bangladesh. But at first glance, the land here looks anything but troubled. It’s a lush, green expanse of rice paddies and coconut trees canopied by a mercurial sky that, with little notice, [...]
