Scenes travelling
As we travel we see so many fascinating things along the road. Sometimes we can get a quick photo and sometimes we can’t. Here we have added photos of a few sights from this trip.
On the first day we saw two elephants walking down the road ahead of us. Even though it was pouring rain, we managed to get a “sort of” photo as we drove alongside it. Elephants are not very common in Bangladesh except in the border areas with India so it was surprising to see one when we did.
It was interesting to see the change in the rice fields from when we traveled a month ago. Then we saw mostly newly planted rice. This time we saw fields of bright green growing rice — beautiful. We even saw the hills of India! (The first time we saw any elevation in Bangladesh.) In one area we passed large areas where they were drying rice. They usually spread it out on a large concrete area and often walk through it to stir the rice. They then rake it in to long rows before bagging it.
One day we saw a bookmobile! What a joy!
When we returned to Dhaka, we were in time to see all the women leaving work at the garment factories at the end of the day. As you may see from the tags on clothes in the US stores, many clothes are sewn here. It is a huge industry. It was reported in a recent article that in 2015 the garment industry accounted for 82% of Bangladesh’s exports.
We saw rivers which were low because India had closed a dam (all rivers come though India.) And we saw rivers in other places where the water was very high and the brick kilns were surrounded. In other areas sand was being dug from the river for concrete.
And sometimes we just see interesting things!
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- elephant
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- elephant
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- rice
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- green fields of rice
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- note the hills
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- rice drying
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- bookmobile
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- garment industry workers
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- low river bed
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- kiln surround by water
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- sand from river
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- rural area
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- town center
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- hay stack
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- bamboo
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- rural area
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- market
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- market