A gas line, because the electricity (which runs the pumps) was out
Drivers waiting in the gas line
After we waited in line for an hour, we finally got to the front. Right after they stuck the CNG (compressed natural gas) nozzle in our vehicle, the electricity went off again! This time it was out for an hour, because it was right on schedule for that area’s forced power shedding (the whole country is on a rotation of planned outages, because corruption has siphoned off money for the new plants that were supposed to have been built. Thus the country doesn’t have enough electricity to all have power at once.)
Another idiosyncrasy of the country is that all the paper put out to the trash is recycled. Fast food bags are one way in which they are recycled. This is a picture of a food bag that a street vendor put our purchased food into. It’s a letter to the Senior Vice President of one of the main banks in Bangladesh about a 50 million taka ($700,000) loan! Our friends in Dhaka didn’t shred their documents before putting them in the trash until one of them found their bank statement on a food bag.
Swimming (or bathing) in the river; this is the first picture of our day’s visit to the village
More pictures below the fold.
Our visit to the village was a major event in the village’s history and one of the village elders had us pose for a picture.
Hindu altar to the trees
The tree that the local Hindus worship
The village elder invited us to his house
A shy onlooker
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June 6th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Did you guys blow up any more buildings today?
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