Shocked, to first arrived at Dhaka Bangladesh

Shocked, to first arrived at Dhaka Bangladesh, where the citizen would drive and cross the road as to their liking. There are traffic rules, and none of them is abiding it, except when there is presence of traffic policemen.

Imagine, you will cross the road everyday, risking your life or either being knocked by the on coming traffic, or from the opposite traffic. They can drive from the opposite way, even though it is the main road at the city. Yes, they do have overhead bridge or underground subway to cross the road; and those are only available for one or two places. I did not notice any zebra crossing or pedestrian stop either.

Almost 90% of the time, you will hear vehicles honking for the traffic, and it would not stop until near 2300 hour. The amount of noise pollution at the surrounding is good enough to raise your blood pressure, and not to forget that it started as early as 0600 hour.

Aside from the chaos of the traffic and the noise pollution, the airport security is stringent. When one foreigner is entering the country, the arrival card must be filled, and one must be able to provide a local phone number for the authority. Moreover, when one foreigner is leaving the country, there is another departure card to be filled in before entering the immigration counter.

To enter the international airport in Dhaka, one must line-up and there are a lot of the un-sincere airport security personnel will target the tourist or foreigner to ask for tips or they will pretend to help you for money. Not a surprised that even the airport security open their mouth asking you for money before putting up baggage for scanning. Perhaps this is their usual practice, but this is way to much corruption. Imagine is one had bad intention, and to smuggle any illegal items? All they do is to have money to pass to these security and they can enter freely?

Not a surprised that when both me and my other colleague collected our baggage when arrived at our home country, we noticed that our baggage pass-code had all switched to 000, and sign of our baggage had been searched prior to our flight. The internal compartment of my baggage had visible knife cut and visible sign of force ripped-off.  The same baggage had been used for entering Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, China, and San Francisco; and nothing happened. If you were to ask me that would I go to do sigh-seeing at this country? No, I would not, not at the moment.