Thread 2822649

Thinking of visiting next month. Anyone been? Just want to see Dhaka really and some odd places. Want to see the ship breaking yard and the water traffic, go to a huge market. Just want to see the wild throng of people

Wouldn't you have to carry a mule loaded with bottled water and food with you everywhere to avoid dying of viral septicimia?

>>2822650
I think it's possible without a mule

>>2822651
you are gonna be sick the whole time from the food and water

>>2822652
I've never gotten sick in india. If you haven't been, get back to gooning on /gif/

>>2822649 (OP)
Thats the India of India. Downstream of the Ganges. Good luck

>>2822649 (OP)
Just so you know, there have been multiple attacks there recently. In one they killed a bunch of Japanese in a cafe for not being Muslim

what brings you to this place? especially the ship breaking yard?

>>2822649 (OP)
Why would you want to go there? Even Indians feel that place is dirty and chaotic. If you want a similar vibe, you can go to Calcutta. I am from a Delhi suburb and have never been east of Ganges. That's where the real underworld lies.

>>2822652
>>2822650
These are the kinds of pussies who post on here these days.
>>2822649 (OP)
Been wanting to visit myself. There's some insanely good Bangladeshi restaurants in my city and it's made me want to go and try some of the real stuff. I visited India for the same reason (and historical stuff) and wasn't disappointed. The chaos was exciting and addictive in a way, and Dhaka seems to take it to a higher level.

>>2822698
This nigga gets it. I want to be overwhelmed, I want to see the shocking and the incomprehensible. People telling me it's not like Cabo like I don't know.

>>2822697
Kek as I said the India of india

>>2822649 (OP)
Imagine India without any of the good parts

>>2822714
>Kek as I said the India of india
Why'd you say it again?

>>2822728
Worse water (downstream of some of the worst indian waters), less nature, incredible densely populated, seemingly even dirtier and envirnmental disasters all around.
But if you want to drill of it i guess this is the right place.

Look at this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWNneat-bQ

>>2822700
Homeless nutcases on the streets of LA behave in much more shocking and incomprehensible ways than the people of Third World slums. If anything, it's the sensibility and mundanity of their behavior that makes it so depressing after the culture shock wears off. Everyone is quite literally doing the best they can in such a hypercrowded and poorly developed environment. There's absolutely nothing you can do or no suggestion you can make that will improve their lives in any way. Even buying from the street vendors means nothing to them; you're merely customer #48 of the day, instantly forgotten as soon as you move on. Only massive public investment stands a chance at making the city less of a hellhole, and that's not gonna happen as long as the business elites control the government and ensure that their fortunes remain safe from taxation.

>>2822649 (OP)
I knew a guy that went bikepacking there, him and a friend, vaguely rugged guys that had biked through mountains in pakistan and they said every morning they'd wake up in their tent with 30+ people standing around looking at their stuff figuring out what to steal. They left in four days and biked back to India, they didnt even get close to Dhaka before the swarms of people touching them became too much.

>>2822815
This is exactly the kind of stuff I want to experience.

>>2823831
>This is exactly the kind of stuff I want to experience
Same. I literally want to go to this exact location
https://youtu.be/OfprplZFt-A?si=iRXVRVE48mR8vKy3

>>2823833
I mean if you are crazy and want to see that shit go for it.
That water must be toxic as shit tho.

>>2823870
>That water must be toxic as shit tho.
Really!? Thanks bro. I was gonna colonic irrigate myself with it and then make a tea with the squirt out

A crowded street in downtown Bogura, yet there's not a car in sight. Hotel $23 per night, reviews are surprisingly good.

I spent a week in Dhaka because why not. Had a great time, I'd go back tomorrow if I could. Best part was paying the little boats to take me across the river. A street hustler offered to be my guide for some out of the city activities. He took me to some ancient Hindu city and to an Armenian cathedral where I chatted with the monks, and he picked out all the choicest street snacks for me. I think I paid him $40 which was probably too much. I turned down his offer to take me to the T-shirt factories the next day, which I regret. I also regret never riding a train. I took a bus to some nature park just outside the city, which was really pretty. I think I'm an extra in a Bangladeshi Nescafe commercial they were filming at the time.
I stayed at 2 different hotels in the $30 range, both were good. I actually spent a surprising amount per day, mostly due to tuk-tuks as they pretend not to have change and I don't have the heart to haggle with 60 year old men who ride bikes for a living.
The morning I had planned to walk to the airport the whole city flooded and I had to wade through knee-deep sewage. Dunno if it was that or the food that gave me apocalyptic shits; I've never been so sick in my life, I had to beg for medical help during my layover in Heathrow.

>>2824180
>because why not. Had a great time, I'd go back tomorrow if I could. Best part was paying the little boats to take me across the river.
That sounds awesome. I want to be stuck in boat traffic somewhere
>A street hustler offered to be my guide for some out of the city activities. He took me to some ancient Hindu city and to an Armenian cathedral where I chatted with the monks, and he picked out all the choicest street snacks for me
Surprising W
>I also regret never riding a train
Yeah. I'm gonna have to ride at the front like Kurt Kaz. I don't even particularly want to buy I feel obligated
>The morning I had planned to walk to the airport the whole city flooded and I had to wade through knee-deep sewage
Black death absorbed through skin. Gross. Thanks for the post anon

Seems like about 2% of /trv/ truly enjoy travel. The rest are autistic losers obsessed with the Philippines and Thailand

>>2823831
Just live in the US, we're rapidly sliding towards Bangladesh tier living standards, just need to transfer the last remaining wealth out of the dwindling middle class while the masses are distracted fighting about gay penguin books in the library

>>2822649 (OP)
Bangladeshi here. Now, this isn't my first day on 4chan (though it might as well be my first day on /trv/) so I realize this might an incredibly retarded proposition and nothing good would probably come out of it, but if there really isan anon here that disregards their mental and physical well-being enough to venture into Dhaka, consider meeting up with me. Hey, best case scenario, we both might come out of it with a friend.

Just putting it out there, but no money will be involved. I won't expect to get paid for showing you around or inviting you for lunch, nor will I be interested in paying you for hanging out with my lonely self.

>>2825156
I'm curious, is there any noticeable difference between Dhaka and other big cities like Chittagong for example?

>>2825156
I'll meet up with you but I want a blowjob

>>2825179
Big cities are for the most part much cleaner and not nearly as densely populated. I've been to the main cities of Chittagong, Mymensingh, Barisal, and Sylhet and they're all very pleasant places. Some places are even as developed as the more developed locations in Dhaka city like Gulshan, Uttara, Baridhara. Though as someone born and raised in Dhaka I'm prone to stereotype against their people, Chittagongians in particular are smarter than your average Bangladeshi and also typically the worst swindlers. Their food slaps however.

>>2825184
Only if your penis is bigger than mine

Banglas in my experience are decent Muslims who generally strive hard for respectability. However, when they get drunk they can get very grabby and gropey.
>>2825156
What if you wear earplugs in the street? kek
I'm used to communicating with earplugs in at work.
>>2825186
>Swindle you on the mutton portion size if you insist on paying the menu price
>Swindle you on the menu price if you insist on getting the portion size shown
>purposeful omission of items that are usually included with a meal
>charging extra for items that are usually included with a meal
>putting a cover sheet on the menu in the local language that says "sorry, our prices have increased, the menu prices are no longer valid"
>saying the same thing when the register rings up the meal as a higher price than the menu, refusing to honor the menu price
There are various ways a restaurant can screw over a customer. If you're a tourist, you wouldn't know unless you order the same meal as the guy who just sat down across from you at your table and see that his portion is much bigger than yours.

>>2825186
Why do Bangladeshi men squat to piss?

https://youtube.com/shorts/CDSYucUfiYU?si=_LUbgMKggqVl8Qbv

>>2825507
>There are various ways a restaurant can screw over a customer
I personally don't care how much I'm paying if the food is really good since it's dirt cheap either way. And the restaurants good enough for me to frequent already have a reputation of not being cheating assholes, otherwise they would have pissed off the wrong guy at some point and gotten reviewbombed to obscurity.

>>2825542
I have no fucking idea bro. Some people even try to justify it as "helping with their circulation" or some shit. I suppose that's how you'd have to go with no proper toilets which was the case for most of this country even 50 years ago, and old habits die hard.