The pace of Bangladesh and India is nonstop.
Gone are the days of peaceful meandering in the mountains of the Pamirs or wishful thinking in the desert stretches of Uzbekistan.
Our thoughts now come in rapid disconnected spurts, and our senses are overwhelmed with a constant attack of all things sweet, beautiful, ugly and gut-wrenching gross. There is little time for long, pensive reflections. Paying attention to what’s coming toward us or behind us takes all our energy.
We had an open and public Questions and Answers session some weeks ago and we would like to publish it in this entry post.
Why do we want to publish it? Because we think some of you who are kindly following our adventure-project-trip might find some of the questions and some answers useful or interesting. If you have been following us, you might know some answers already, but we think there were some interesting questions worth publishing. So here we go, this was the open Q&A. We hope you like it !
Ja tenim fets els primers 5.000 km. Aquesta distància ens ha permès caminar la nostra ruta a través de Tailàndia, Birmània, Pamir, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh i ara ja portem uns poc més de 700 quilòmetres per dins Índia pels estats de West Bengal, Jharkand, Bihar i Uttar Pradesh.
We have done our first 5,000 kilometers (about 3,100 miles). So far, we have walked Thailand, Burma, Pamir, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh and a bit more than 700 kilometers in the Inidan provinces of West Bengal, Jharkand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Namasté Índia. Ja som aquí! Ara comencem un llarg periple de moooooooolts quilòmetres que ens tindrà ben ocupats durant els propers mesos.
We notice a lot of things when walking the world.
As similar as we all are, we do things differently, either because of customs, cultures or habits.
Here are a few of the curious things we discovered in Bangladesh, in random order. (Lluís does a much better job remembering and noting all these little things. Check out his post in Catalan, published the same day as this one; you can use Google translate to get the gist.)
Aquestes son algunes de les curiositats que ens agradaria comentar:
Un cop acabada la nostra ruta a peu per Bangladesh, un cop caminats poc més de 700 quilòmetres per Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Comilla, Dacca, Jessore fins a Benapole, aquesta entrada reflecteix els útils i agradables dies en que hem pogut ajudar i fer voluntariat, així com els desagradables i depriments dies en que hem estat perseguint segells i visats de …
Fastigosos visats de m… que ens estan costant molt de temps, molts esforços, molta energia, molts maldecaps, moltes emprenyades, molts tractes amb funcionaris que haurien d’estar…, molta porqueria empassada per no engegar tot i a tots a fer punyetes, molts diners!
Això ho diem no només per aquí a Bangladesh i per Índia, sinó també per tot el que venim arrossegant des del primer dia en que vàrem començar aquesta aventura.
Els p…. visats i tot i tots els que els envolten, quin malson !!!!
