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One of the biggest challenges traveling outside of Dhaka,is finding a decent hotel or guesthouse that is not very higgy biggy(grungy). Our first stop after Kurigram in Rangpur,at the Parjatan ,the government tourist hotel,was barely sustainable. The odor in the room was pure mold. I managed to get through the night in my sleeping sac. […]

Most of the towns and cities of Bangladesh are higybigy  Manik,our amazing driver and Hannan,field supervisor and translator for BPKS, aNGO of and by the disabled people in Bangladesh, taught me this word. We have been traveling for several days in the more remote areas of the country. There is a breathtaking landscape of rice […]

The first image that greeted me after i landed at the airport in Dhaka on feb 13,was a large group of men staring through a chain link fence at all the arrivals. I knew for sure this was not a tourist destination. This experience set the stage for the rest of my first week. my […]