Saturday morning I took a long walk through Gaibandha City with my camera. It was nice and cool out that day because it had just rained. Short bursts of rain here leave the air unbearably humid, but prolonged rain actually leaves the air cooler and dryer. It rained all Friday night so Saturday morning when I woke up it was still wonderfully cool out.
Unfortunately the rain also created huge puddles along the sides of the main road, constricting the available travel space for the cars, buses, trucks, bicycles, rickshaw, animals and pedestrians that share the two-lane road. This made for a somewhat stressful walk, without much time for framing pictures and thinking about all the little buttons I have to work with, but I still managed to capture some of the interesting things one sees on a daily basis in Gaibandha. Here are a few and there are more in the Picasa album titled "Gaibandha City".
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The local bus station. Men are continuing to board this bus
as it drives away.
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Men traveling on the roof and hanging
out of the door of a bus.
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A vehicle made from the ubiquitous
Chinese diesel engine. A single engine
will be used for plowing, harvesting,
irrigation and transportation.
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A group of photocopy shops near the faculty house. As it
was early in the day, only two of the shops were open, but
in the evening there are easily 6 or 8 copy machines set up
in front of shops along this block.
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A man transporting bushels of bananas
by bicycle cart.
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A small shop along the main road built on stilts. The color
of this man's hair is quite common here, as older men will
continue to color their hair with henna after it has turned
gray or white, leaving it this wild orange color.
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Finally, I turned off the main road and walked through a more peaceful residential section of Gaibandha before taking a rickshaw home. Here are a couple of pictures from the less chaotic part of the city. To see more pictures from the day, click on the albums link in the right panel.
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| A man constructing a tin roof. |
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A man and his grandson sitting in front
of their house.
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