Village Life
We walked through a couple of villages with our guide. Both were very much the same, except the second was seemingly empty. People did not come out to greet us or follow us; instead, we caught glimpses of a few women and children in doorways or peeking around corners. One woman clearly did not like […]
Bathing
Most of the bathing in the countryside is done in public, either in the rivers and lakes or beside a well with a hand pump. Always with clothing on. Most of the villages we passed through only had a well in the center for water. We watched this young woman bathe herself at the community […]
Village Schools
On our weekend with our guide, we visited a village school. I taught in a village school in Botswana while in the Peace Corps. School buildings were concrete with no windows for ventilation; desks were metal, like those in American schools in the 1940’s, and kids often had to share them because there were not […]
The women are beautiful!
Almost all of the women we met were dressed in beautiful, elegant saris. The women at the school wore modern versions of traditional dress. Those out in the countryside or on the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong looked as if they had been worn for many years. Regardless of whether the women were in the […]
Curious and shy
The children we met along the way were so curious about us, but ever so shy. They occasionally engaged with us, but mostly stood and stared, sometimes out in the open but often hidden behind a doorway or an older sibling. Every once in awhile we’d get a smile.
