The masonry layout
3 April 2019
April 2019. There isn’t much detailed information about getting an Indian tourist visa in Dhaka. Even the info on the official site isn’t complete, so in case it’s useful for other travellers we have put together what we learned from our recent experience. Indian visas are not issued from the consulate in Dhaka, but rather […]
2 April 2019
I remember just over a year ago someone asking me where I thought I’d be in a years’ time. I stuck a wet finger in the air and said “probably Bangladesh at a guess”, which at the time was less a certainty and more out of hope to be honest! But here we are, one […]
28 March 2019
We arrived in our 12th capital city of our tour, Dhaka, on Friday 22nd March into Sadarghat port. This is normally one of the city’s busiest areass but because it was around 7am on a Friday, which is the start of their weekend and a day of prayer for the mainly Muslin population, it […]
25 March 2019
A rough plan for South-East Asia and Australasia ….which effectively is the remainder of our trip! The following is a guesstimate of our route over the next year. As ever, it is set in jelly and likely to change on a day-to-day and month-to-month basis! – Stay in Bangladesh until approximately 10 April ‘19 depending […]
22 March 2019
Monday 18 March. Bongaon to Jessore (Bangladesh). 46km. For some reason I’d expected the border between India and Bangladesh to be wide open fields, but in reality it’s surrounded by trees. We were crossing at Petrapole (on the Indian side) and Benapole (on the Bangladesh side), which is the main land border between the two […]
19 March 2019
We spent a total of 107 days in India, of which we were on the road for 74 of those days, covering 5,773km and averaging 78km per day. When we were planning this trip India was definitely where we thought our adventure would really begin – and we were right. To a certain extent we […]