Pink City In Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pink City Township,  the place away from the traffic jam, noise of the beeping train, cars, and tuk-tuks. 

Simple an Eden away from the crowded city.

Getting there is by tuk-tuk ride from the railway station,  just across Dhaka Regency Hotel.

Reminiscing my hometown in the province while passing the uncemented road.  There's the sense of tranquility and fresh air as the tuk-tuk gets farther away from the city and see the greenish farm on both sides of the road.  It felt that I was on a vacation :-).

The Pink City

Click to view the place :   http://pinkcitybd.com/ 

Kian, the smart boy who taught me the word "moshi" (mosquito)

Thank you Asma, Nanu, Nana for the warm welcome and Kian for clowning me:-).

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Flickering Wrist

Those toned legs, nice chest

and with running endurance on the treadmill,

catches my eyes and ultimately gained my admiration. 

Chance of mine has come to use the treadmill

when he finally stepped out from it.

Watching him from the mirror facing the treadmill. 

A naughty thought pop my head and tiny smile slid on my lips,

while those flickering wrist gripped the handle of the weight machine.  

This Adonis Hercules is sexier than me ;-). 



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APS Group, Garment Manufacturing In Dhaka, Bangladesh

On my recent stay in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I met Mr. Pinu while at the gym in Dhaka Regency Hotel where our airline, Bahrain Air book its crew layovers.  He invited me to visit his company along with other crew at APS Group, a garment factory located in Uttara.

Uttara is the closest area to Shahjalal International Airport (DAC).  I have seen Mascot Plaza – a family shopping mall, banks, schools, hospital, and more shops lined up along the way.  

It was a great privilege for me to have seen how people work inside this big factory.  I felt honored to meet  Mr. Shamim ”Pinu”, the MD of the APS Group.  With me on this visit was the rest of the crew, including our captain. 

Mr. Pinu showed us around the factory premises and gave us a bunch of clothes, individually packed for us.   What a surprise.                 

Happy day .

Mr. Pinu & Capt. Sandu

 Happy Alice

Jumy

 

Cotton material

Packing

  

MD. Shamim Reza, Mr. Pinu

With Jumy Roi (black-Indian), captain Sandu Panaite, Alice (Thai), Samah Soliman

Thank you Mr. Pinu.

  

  

                        

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

Welcome to Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Where this flight going to take me is yet to be discovered .  Dhaka in Bangladesh, though I have heard negative feedback from others it still excites me…I can give my new Sony DSC-HX1 camera a practice before its real action on my vacation.

Dhaka, Bangladesh.   April 01, 2010 

Airport name: Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport 

UTC +6, Country Code +880  

Currency: Taka $1 at the airport was 68.50 taka.

Level 13, DR Fitness Gym

Rooftop, swimming pool under renovation

View from the room

 

I did not change money at the airport since my wallet was inside my trolley bag and don’t want to dig it inside.

Here our exciting and anticipating search of the famous Banga Bazar begins.

Let’s see the outside vicinity of the hotel.

Transportation.  The hotel taxi is asking for 900 taka/hour for a van to the Bazar, that is around $13.65 an hour or BD5.140 which is ridiculous.  We decided to just get a taxi from outside hotel.  The security guard helped us to get one at the rate of 250 taka per hour ($3.88 = BD1.43) which is not bad.  Most taxis doesn’t have air-condition and we were six inside, it was traffic, hot, humid so we were feeling sticky.  No complain for such price, you get only for what you pay .

Some pictures taken on our way to Banga Bazar

Tangled cables

Transportation

 

With all the sweat and after sitting in the traffic, Bazaar must worth a visit.

Woaaa…is this it? Yeah but yeah..this is it.  We finally reached our destination…the famous Banga Bazaar.

 

We were greeted by bunch of local seems waiting for us.  They guessed from which airline we are working which implies and actually they claimed that a lot of crew are coming to this place.  We were followed and they really never leave us.  Fatima, speaks Tagalog which she learned from the crew who are coming to this place.  She never left me so I finally asked her to show me her shop and see for what she was selling.  Ahhh, she doesn’t have a store but can lead me to the area of the brand that I would look for, basically a tour guide inside the bazaar.  It is a small bazaar, really not much to see and sure will find our way out.  Divisoria in Philippines offers more variety of commodities to choose from and could be cheaper compared with the prices that sellers quoting us. Someone should master bargaining not to get rip off.  Not an intention to buy anything, but I ended up with a plastic bag .  I got 7 shirts for 350 taka, guess i won the lowest bid .  Now, I have to exchange dollars again to pay taxi and have extra taka in hand just in case it will be needed.  Conversion rate here is 65 taka/$. 

We got back to the hotel, paid taxi for 4 hour rate for spending 3.5 hours with us.  

  

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