Botanical Gardens … and more
We spent a wonderful morning with an MCC office colleague. We often complain about the noise and chaos of traffic and people here in Dhaka. But this time we were in the Botanical Gardens far away from traffic noise and among the tall quiet trees. Our morning included a few other places.
Bangladesh is getting ready for the Hindu festival – Durga Puja. We stopped first at a Hindu temple where we saw several of the gods. However, the main god will not be unveiled until later in the day. An interesting encounter was with the man who explained the temple; he knew MCC!
We then went to the Gardens. Our colleague is a bird watcher and knows Bangladesh nature. He told us the names of birds we heard or saw and the plants/trees. Fascinating. However, we don’t remember all the names. We have only one photo of a bird (we didn’t have our long lens) but we saw beautiful woodpeckers and orioles, along with more common birds. We also saw and heard a colony of bats. Huge bats – wing span of a meter
We then went for a ride in a small boat/canoe on the river. Fun
We traveled from our flat to the various places by CNG, the 3-wheeled “box” — if you could reach through the window grates, you could touch the vehicles beside you. (CNG stands for Compressed Natural Gas – their fuel.)
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- Hindu goddess
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- stop for refreshing coconut
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- map of Botanical Gardens
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- lily pond
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- tree flower
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- tree flower (shala?)
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- looking for birds
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- black hooded oriole
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- trees & reflections
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- reflections
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- pond & palms
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- bamboo
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- log
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- 150 year old banyon
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- 150 year old banyon
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- river
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- bay
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- our boat
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- our driver
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- boat
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- fishing
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- mosque built on water
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- reach out & touch