Dhaka
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TukTuk where you get literally locked-up
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The "Books street"
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Dhaka's famous Ahsan Manzil Pink Palace, home of the Arabic Nawabs
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Bazar in Old Dhaka
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Bazar in Old Dhaka
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Discovering the brown river...
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... and trying out one of the small boats for the crossing (zigzagging between larger ships)
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Crossing the Buriganga River
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Crossing the Buriganga River
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Crossing the Buriganga River
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Please meet the guides! Met randomly on the street. They were to be our amazing guides and 'gards' for the day
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Crossing the Buriganga River
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Crossing the Buriganga River a few inches above the water
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On the beautiful brown Buriganga
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There is no specific places for bathes in Dhaka, as the water is everywhere!
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Playing in the Buriganga River
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Arriving on the shipyard, on the otherside of old Dhaka
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First scene of total dismay, where ships a re-assembled from parts picked up on de-assambled ships at Chittagong
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End of the "assembly line", names "the miracle of paint"
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Assembling the old bones
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And creating new life from the durt for propellers
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Making the propellers' mould from sand
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Shaping complex 3D geometries from the sand, using hands and rulers
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Shipyard Workers
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Growing steel flowers from the ash!
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Only a small wooden plank separating the ground to the ship deck! Let's go!
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View on the river
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Posing in front of there home-town, and proud workplace
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Chicken?
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Workshop at the shipyard
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Finishing touch from the Artist
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And keeping the lifestock at bay
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Goat hearder in a forest of steel!
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An arrow to the sky
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Beating the shape out of the prow
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Shopping at the shipyard
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Living in the shipyard (more than 2000 people)
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Market place at the shipyard
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Keeping contact! The proud guide's list of foreign friends
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Returning to old Dhaka before the rain (and the waves...)
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A steel alligator in the river
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Business as ususal
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