Category: Travel

Culture

The Real Bangkok Where Locals Actually Live and Eat

Bangkok hits you first with the smell. Not a bad smell, exactly. A mix of grilled meat, diesel fumes, jasmine, and the wet heat that hangs over everything. You step out of the airport and it wraps around you like a blanket you did not ask for. The city has twelve million people, give or […]
Culture

A Day in the Life of an Old Dhaka Rickshaw Puller

The call to prayer from the Baitul Mukarram mosque drifts through the narrow lanes of Old Dhaka just before dawn. It is still dark, and the air is thick with the smell of damp brick and frying paratha. On the corner of Bangshal Road, a rickshaw puller named Abdul wipes the dew off his seat […]
Destinations

Jadukata River and the Border Hills of Sunamganj

The Jadukata River doesn’t announce itself. It flows quietly through the haor basin of Sunamganj, near the Indian border. You might miss it if you blink. But the locals know it well. They cross it on wooden boats, fish in its currents, and watch the hills of Meghalaya rise behind it. The river is not […]
Bandarban

Why Travelers Keep Coming Back to Sajek Valley

Sajek Valley sits high in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a place where the clouds roll in low and the hills stretch out in layers of green. I first saw it on a damp morning in November, when the fog was thick enough to taste. The road from Khagrachari is rough, a two-hour climb on a […]
Destinations

The Unfolding Disaster of the 2025 Bangladesh Floods

The floodwaters rose slowly at first, then all at once. By late June 2025, rivers across northern and eastern Bangladesh had breached their banks. The Brahmaputra, the Meghna, and the Surma swelled beyond any recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes. Key Takeaways The 2025 Bangladesh floods submerged over 30 districts, displacing […]