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Flight attendants Air Arabia during the 5-hour flight from the Emirates in Bangladesh, described the Bangladeshi capital as follows: "They were an awful lot, they run hither and thither, wrote in the corners, could not breathe from the gas concentration, and crime ... well, svoebrazny, good luck to you ". This girl accompanied his words with gestures, depicting vanity.
 - Like in India?
 - No, there are much worse than in India.

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Do you think that traffic jams in your town is so dismal that no strength? Rejoice in Dhaka such plugs that you do not even dreamed of.



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4. If you want the minimum comfort (bed, air conditioning, shower), the $ 50-60 cheaper than anything in Dhaka not. Is not it strange for one of the world's poorest countries, where monthly income of the average person does not exceed $ 50-70? I believe that the total corruption and chaos are not allowed to develop private business. It is assumed that a tourist - a rich man, let him pay. And if you have not - are sleeping in shelters. There is a rooming house, yes, just a third of a dollar a day, and in the heart of the city



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Posherstiv travel forums and travel guides give a guarantee that you will find all of Dhaka on the strength of three or four dozen hotels. At the moment, the city of about 30 million people, even in Moscow, which is experiencing an acute shortage of hotels, they are still twenty times. From having a few dozen, most will cost $ 100 or more per day. That's all. Other options - monstrous rooming house, which, I assure you, even the most nebrezglivy Hitch will not live. And not because would not that noisy outside and walls dirty. So would not that zakusayut fleas and mosquitoes (malaria has not been canceled), things are stolen, there is no place to wash. After such nochlezhek should first visit the dermatologist, away from sin. Incidentally, I note that in Dhaka, many scratched, and even made comb each other for lice and juicy crush their fingernails.



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It is in these people and the local eatery eats. In a few inches from the food rush tuk-tuks, crawling beggars with disabilities, a crowd of onlookers. It is impossible not to recognize that with a certain probability you're here to eat with you and nothing will happen. Another question - how much do you assess their lives and health? If your risk poison reaches "only" one chance out of three, you are ready to take the risk? Can you imagine the look of the local hospital, you want to know all this from personal experience?



8. You live in a big city, say, in Moscow? You tire of the crowd in the subway at rush hour? Now imagine that people, even more than in your town - about 30 million people. And the subway is not as a class. At the same time, the road five times already (mentally draw Moscow on one lane in each direction), and ten times more than the broken, dirt, a hundred times more. And no, even the most minimal infrastructure, without which it can not live the big city. Add the acrid stench of exhaust million old kalymag. It's not just words. Really can not breathe in the evening, headache, and nasal vysmarkivayutsya flakes dirt. Remember two years ago, forest fires and smoke, from which even the tightly locked windows are not saved? So, in Dhaka, a stench and smog is all year round, they are accustomed to. And if you listed are still not enough, "to heap", throw with the heat of 40 degrees, and absolute humidity.



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11.Ochen many will greet you and shake your hand. It's nice. But it is necessary then to wipe his hands with alcohol. You do not know who shook hands with you, but if you look at the crowd, then you will notice that a lot of people suffer from skin fungi and some blisters. Take care of yourself.

Visit mosques and Hindu temples to be without shoes. Grab Airport plastic "socks" (or as they are correctly called?) And wear them. There is no need to wander barefoot.

In public transport, try not to touch the back of his head, there may be lice from the previous occupant.



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There is a lot like India, but there is worse than in India. There is a crime. Sometimes rude. This warned us all, without exception, from the flight attendants of Air Arabia and to the owner of our hotel. The main danger - pickpockets, because all the crowd, you shove, push. Thieves are not asleep. So do not carry anything of value, at least not in the pockets. Sew inner pocket for documents and money. Or leave your valuables in the hotel safe, unless, of course, convinced that they do not steal from there the hotel staff themselves. Remember that you - the white man, and this is like a red rag for the thieves, they know that you're sure to have with you something of value.

By nightfall, better and completely disappear from the street and take a seat at the table in his room, checking e-mail. Already nine o'clock in the evening Dhaka empties. Only the homeless and packs of dogs. Incidentally, these mangy dogs is very aggressive, try to interfere with them. That is a shame, that night no traffic jams, and a 5-minute brought quickly to the center, but no, robbed with a high probability.



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Believe it or not, but eto- rich area of ​​bananas, in the northern part of the city



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