Recent Posts Tagged With 'Nature'

• Asian Eclipse!

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 09:19 in Bangladesh, Nature

  Today there was a total solar eclipse that passed across most of Asia!  While we weren’t actually in the direct path, all of Bangladesh saw at least an 83% eclipse. It was pretty cloudy here, which was good, because I don’t have any fan...

• Hail Storm in Dhaka

  Posted on Sunday March 29th, 2009 at 09:14 in Bangladesh, Nature

  Today it hailed in Dhaka. Who woulda thunk. Turns out, it was also dark at the time (maybe 6pm when I took these pictures) but you can get the general idea. Posted in Bangladesh, Nature ...

• Srimongol Tea Estates

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 10:05 in Bangladesh, tourism, Nature, travels, rural scenes, srimongol

  Photos from the Tea Estates in Srimongol! Apparently it’s not always easy to see the estates - some of the landowners won’t give you permission to look around - but just driving around the region you see lots of tea. This is tea: Tea. ...

• Srimongol Tea Estates

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 10:04 in Bangladesh, Nature, travels, rural scenes, srimongol

  Today I hoped to post the pictures from the tea estates, but it’s been a wee bit hectic and … it didn’t so much happen. So here is a picture, with the promise of more to come. Me, checking out the estate. Children, checking out me...

• Lowacherra Forest Reserve

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 18:49 in Bangladesh, tourism, Nature, travels, rural scenes, lowacherra forest, srimongol

  In Srimongol one of the highlights is the Lowacherra National Park, and we made this our first stop, hoping (correctly) that we could arrive before the BUSLOADS of tourists from Dhaka.  More on the buses later. The park was quite nice - most of it d...

• Road trip - Srimongol!

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 23:50 in Bangladesh, Nature, travels, rural scenes, srimongol

  This weekend we went on an overnight trip to Srimongol! It was a wonderful change of scenery - the region has a few hills and is the area of tea estates, so everything was nice and green and more forested than the rest of Bangladesh. This map doesn&...

• More River Pics

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 06:36 in Bangladesh, Nature, rural scenes

  A few more pictures from our mini-river cruise yesterday. A mobile irrigation system at work, pumping river water up into the rice paddies. A sand barge, empty: The same kind of boat when fully loaded. They always look like they’re about to ...

• Mini-boat trip

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 09:56 in water, Bangladesh, Nature, rural scenes

  Some colleagues and I went on a short boat trip just outside Dhaka today. It’s always nice to escape the gray of the city for the vivid green of the countryside.  It always surprises me, too, how quickly you live the city and end up in the ri...

• One thing I definitely don’t miss

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 09:17 in ohio, Nature

  One thing we don’t have in Bangladesh … Ohio had a level 2 snow emergency this week. (Photo is user-submitted to the Columbus Dispatch.) Posted in Nature, Ohio       ...

• Mainimati and Shonargoan

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 08:29 in Bangladesh, tourism, Nature, travels, rural scenes

  This weekend we took a daytrip out to Mainimati and Sonargaon! Both are sites about an hour and a half from Dhaka, and a great opportunity to get out of the city and see something on a nice weekend. We went with Bengal Tours, a group we hadn’...