Traffic!
The traffic in Bangladesh can best be described as organized chaos. No lanes, no lights and only one rule, make way when you hear a honk or a bike bell. In Dhaka cars are outnumbered mostly by colorful rickshaws (with spectacular rickshaw art), baby taxi’s or CNGs, yellow taxi’s, black taxis, buses, machinery, animals and of course the pedestrians. The traffic either stands still or moves at an amazingly fast pace- too fast for a city without traffic lights. Crossing the road as a pedestrian is like jumping hurdles. Waiting for a gap in traffic is near impossible. But somehow the Bangladeshi’s manage to stroll leisurely across the street and reach the other side alive. I am still mastering this. The leisurely stroll that is!