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A Two Week Bangladesh Itinerary

September 30, 2020by ramblingnortherner Leave a comment

Make no bones about it: travelling around Bangladesh can be difficult. I’m not talking about the logistics per se (although that certainly doesn’t help), but more about figuring out where […]

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A Truly ‘Bazar’ Beach Resort in Bangladesh

July 28, 2020by ramblingnortherner 7 Comments

It’s fair to say that I wasn’t at my most enthusiastic by the time I reached Cox’s Bazar in mid-February. Yes, this post is that late. A combination of the […]

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Making the Most of Sylhet…By Getting Out of Town! Part Two: Lalakhal

April 26, 2020by ramblingnortherner 2 Comments

Another day, another bus ride from a totally random spot on the side of the street. The destination today was Lalakhal, a stretch of river also near the Indian border, […]

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Making the Most of Sylhet…By Getting Out of Town! Part One: Shada Pathor

April 17, 2020by ramblingnortherner 6 Comments

If you’ve ever met a Bangladeshi in England then there’s a good chance they’re from the Sylhet division. In fact, so common is the move to England that the city […]

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Eco-Tourism in Sreemangal

April 9, 2020by ramblingnortherner 3 Comments

Having visited most of the major sights in Sreemangal on my first full day there, I was left with one more day to explore. The town itself is quite small […]

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Sreemangal in a Day by Accident

March 22, 2020by ramblingnortherner 6 Comments

With a kind-of-delicious-kind-of-just-sweet seven layer tea down me, I joined my new friends Shohan and Sakib who had hired a CNG (tuk tuk) for the day to see the sights […]

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Dizzying Dhaka: Making Friends in Bangladesh’s Chaotic Capital

February 5, 2020by ramblingnortherner 8 Comments

If I could use one phrase to sum up Dhaka – Bangladesh’s crazy capital city – it would be ‘go with the flow’. Plans are all well and good, but […]

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Sipping on Sum Morning Cha in Guangzhou

January 28, 2020by ramblingnortherner 4 Comments

Of the many famous Cantonese foods, dim sum is quite possibly the most well-known around the world and, as a result, was very high on my to-eat list in Guangzhou. […]

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Free Beer at Guangzhou’s Zhujiang Museum!

January 24, 2020by ramblingnortherner 2 Comments

Throughout my time in China the large majority of the beer I’ve put away has been Tsingtao or Snow, with the occasional Dalian Beer thrown in for good measure. Craft […]

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A Long Weekend in the Underwhelming Heart and Seoul of Korea

December 18, 2019by ramblingnortherner 2 Comments

For some reason despite living in Tokyo for two years, I never took advantage of the cheap and short flights to Seoul, capital of South Korea. In fact, the closest […]

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