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Ontu arranged for a friend of a friend who was going from Khulna to Jessore with his family to take us on the train from Khulna to Jessore. The train was standing room only due to the strike, but a local man generously gave his seat to my wife.
And then another local insisted I take his seat -- and repeatedly insisted that I sit there and wouldn't back down until I sat there. Ontu's friend of friend even went with us in a tuk-tuk from the Jessore train station to the airport to make sure we got there safely. We were first in line to pay the fee, and quickly paid our money to the money man. He quickly handed us a receipt and sent us to the VOA line.
He handed us our passports and told us to wait in the foreigner arrivals lines. There were about 5 foreigner arrivals lines, and they were all moving extremely slowly. After about 20 minutes of waiting, we noticed a few people seemed to be walking right past the foreigner arrivals lines into the baggage claim area without getting stamped in. We asked an officer if we had to wait, and he looked at our passports and motioned for us to proceed to baggage claim. I guess the VOA means you're already stamped into the country and can walk right past the arrivals lines, and the braindead tortoise erroneously directed us to arrivals lines.
So, protip: once you get your VOA, you can exit immigration and don't need to stand in the foreigner arrivals line. The flight schedule is annoying; the 1am arrival in DAC is the only flight of the day. The flight was almost empty, and we each had our own row of 4 seats on the configuration. We slept almost the entire flight, but the KA service seemed fine.
Several carriers fly this route, and Novoair seemed to have the best safety record. US-Bangala also flies the route, but they lost a plane in March so we opted to avoid them. JSR was a nice little airport. The flight was perfectly satisfactory. Note: Choose your hotel location carefully in Dhaka based on your plans.
Traffic is a nightmare. We had two separate stays in Dhaka 1 night in Dhaka, followed by the overnight Rocket Steamer, followed by two nights in Dhaka. For the first stay, we wanted to be near the tourist sites and the boat port. For the second stay, we chose an airport hotel because we had a morning flight and didn't want to have to wake up 2 hours earlier to sit in morning rush hour traffic before the flight.
Location as convenient as you'll get to Old Dhaka and the major tourist sites. Room was huge, bed was comfortable, shower had good pressure and good hot water, room was clean, free buffet breakfast was great.
We booked with this hotel directly by email. They were professional over email and even sent an invoice by PDF. A free airport pick-up was included. The pick-up didn't show, and we called their phone number. They said they'd send someone. We were picked up by a van and taken to an airport hotel that wasn't the Richmond Hotel.
The man at this other hotel told us that the Richmond Hotel had closed, and that its phones are being routed to his hotel. While this seemed fishy, he drove us by the Richmond Hotel and showed us that it actually was boarded up. This man's hotel was a dump, and the man was nice didn't pressure us to stay there. He offered to help us find a different hotel based on our price range, and we looked hotels up online from his lobby.
It was late and we were tired, and he had his van drive us to the Hotel Air inn, which seemed like the least bad choice. I totally blame the Richmond Inn for not notifying us that our booking was cancelled. We chose this hotel out of desperation see above re Richmond Hotel. None of the mid-range airport hotels we found in our emergency research had great reviews. The hotel was fairly depressing, and the worst part was that there were tons of mosquitos in the room which we couldn't do anything about.
The food was very good. Bangladeshi food is pretty similar to Northern Indian food.
If you like Indian food, you'll like Bangladeshi food. The sweets are really yummy, too.
While Bangladesh has made important strides in relation to social safety net schemes, women still face problems of access and eligibility, and the administration of social assistance leaves much to be desired. Fixing personal laws and court procedures to help married women secure maintenance, mahr , or a share of marital property would help tremendously. Her warm hospitality was very much appreciated. In families with few assets or where the husband has little or no income, divorced, separated, or abandoned women need the option of support from state social assistance programs. For more on HEED see post According to recent statistics, at least four women a day were raped in the last five months in Bangladesh.
Food is very cheap. Street food snacks and sweets are pennies. A meal in a local restaurant will cost you a dollar or two per person. Thankfully, we had no problems. We went slightly out of our way to try Haji Biryani, which is supposed to be the "most famous" biryani in the country. It wasn't anything special. Getting around Dhaka is cheap, safe and hassle-free with Uber. If you don't have free international data, it's easily worth it to buy a cheap local SIM card just so you can use Uber and not have to deal with taxis trying to rip off foreigners. In Bangladesh, tuk-tuks are called "sengee," apparently from CNG.
Unfortunately, tuk-tuks aren't bookable on Uber like in some other countries in South Asia. With the tuk-tuks, ask the locals what the real price is and negotiate hard.
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They're not really used to ripping off tourists, so most of them were easy to deal with. If one tried to gouge us and wouldn't come way down quickly, we wouldn't even waste our time and would just shoo them away and deal with another one. So, you're best to use a combination of Uber for longer rides and tuk-tuks for shorter rides. Bring a respirator, especially if you plan on sitting in tuk tuks. Fantastic report - loved it! Bangladesh is one of those too-often-overlooked countries that everyone would be more than glad to visit! It is a very nice trip report. We are very pleased that you have enjoyed your trip in Bangladesh.
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