{"id":4945,"date":"2014-01-31T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:41:00","slug":"chittagong-maheshkhali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=4945","title":{"rendered":"Chittagong – Maheshkhali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite an exhausting day. I cycled south from Chittagong. The forested hills closed in from the east, but the road itself stayed nice and flat. Annoyingly, I took a wrong turn in Anwara and lost an hour or so. (One hour is quite valuable here. It gets dark around half past 5 and by approx. 6pm it is dark.)<\/p>\n

More than once I was stopped by curious people who more or less just wanted to take pictures of me.<\/p>\n

The road’s quality deteriorated badly on the island of Maheshkali. This must be one of the poorest areas I’ve been to in Bangladesh. I made it to the southern end of the island, where I found a very basic hotel for the night.<\/p>\n

At dinner I met Kalim and his friends, students at the local Australia College as well as a madrasah (an islamic school – I hope that’s the right description). We spent an hour or so in the streets – we were kicked out of the restaurant to make room for other patrons – before he had to go study for his exam tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Cycled: 126km<\/p>\n