Bangladesh : Monasteries, bugs and “the Hell Hole” (part V)

Posted by arkam | July 31st, 2010 in Travel Tips and Info | No Comments »

And when the night bus! As I said, the roads better than in India, but the drivers … After some gedommel and still waking up from heavy horns and bright lights, I decided to spend the rest of the ride but to stay awake. At a pit stop brought some cookies and chips, so I had something to munch on the exciting action film “Highway to Hell Hole Dhaka ‘… And he was exciting! There were especially coaches and trucks on the road, which of course is not lit. And everyone wants to drive lead … which means that they do just as long to catch up until they released visibility. And that is sometimes overtaking two-time coaches, so the rear really cannot see oncoming traffic and whether they have narrowly somewhere between dives.

But sometimes in pairs side by side. So three huge buses side by side on a not too wide two-lane road, and then the oncoming traffic with high beam on your way. And sometimes, there’s just someone on the road. Occasionally I caught myself that I absolutely fed to move in my seat, the other coaches evasive and tried (it) to inhibit (learned from the best ;-) ! Even the police with flashing lights and siren are not something they define back, which is caught up with ease?! And police checks we zoomed almost over, but at the last moment was knocked over the handlebars.

The bus driver also looked surprised when he got his head on Mr. agent that he was so hard at the checkpoint came …haha. I did not know if coaches could focus without tilting it forward … Anyway, once arrived safely in Dhaka, we have agreed not to take more night buses. Not that driving during the day much better, but it is in any case crowded with other traffic, so speed is significantly lower! Or so it seems that just because you better see what happened?!

Arrived safely, we wanted as our re-entry permit to get, and only a few hour on the sidewalk to wait. When the last 8 hours and we were quite broke arrived they asked what we were doing … uh surrender my passport? You call it? … uh yeah! By whom? No idea … Come back to 10 hours. Yes, hello!? Fortunately we were able to persuade them that we could return our passports so we do well with re-entry permit for four hours were able to retrieve. The next time we’re not so good car and we gamble and see the border post something happened.

The next day at Paharpur which was once the largest monastery south of the Himalayas. Unfortunately this is again reasonable to razed, but the stupa in the middle is still about 20m high. All he ever been a lot higher. On the ground they have a rest house where they also had a spot for us free. So we could at night, with the guard, the stupa explore. Very cool! And we could early morning before the crowds of tourists shooting pictures free of grass-overgrown ruins. Bit sad was that we were chased by boys in clean uniforms, who were not going to school … In itself, we had not really suffer from them, but once we were back in our room, they were suddenly in the doorway … Just looking at us. Then we expelled them anyway. Because in a country where you always stared at, and your hotel is the only place where you can only (usually is, because sometimes, the hotel owner with all sorts of “excuses” many times disturbing), wants you sometimes just alone are.

And then after five instead of three weeks time it has come to Bangladesh to leave … Still a little sad, because Bangladesh is so cool and beautiful! But there is still more beautiful to wait so we went to the Burimari border with India. But the next time.

Pissout!


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