The noise is intense. It wakes you up and it keeps you awake. If it is not the call to prayer pumped from the huge speakers, it is the pile-driver on the building site in the opposite small box of space. We even heard an electric guitar blaring last night. It is a little hard to get used to.
Today is the start of our weekend as the working week goes from Sunday-Thursday. Friday is a Muslim day of prayer and people seem to be running around in their different, vast regalia in order to go to their local mosque to pray at some stage in the day.
We decided that it would be a pretty quiet day to go for a walkabout and take some photos.
This is some pictures of a bustling market just down the road. It sells vast arrays of fruit, veg, fish and meat. Fruit and veg is ok but would not go anywhere near the others.
Meat carved on the spot...what more could you ask for right lol?
The view of an extremely quiet main road by our house. This is on a day when no one is around and about. You could only imagine it on a busy day.
Some kind of official building.
Building site with scaffolding made from bamboo. OSH would love this!!
We found a nice park in the diplomatic area close by. It has a nice 500m circuit that we walk around a few times and some great inspiring messages to motivate you. They make me laugh!!!
There is a playground for kids as well.
So we had a bit of an adventure walking around the streets. We were approached by hordes of kids wanting to say hello. After following us for about 500m they started to ask for "500tk, 1000tk ...BOSS please please". I told them to get lost and put on my grumpy face. Therefore Grant and I checked out pockets, decided we had not been pick-pocketed and headed home.
Today is the start of our weekend as the working week goes from Sunday-Thursday. Friday is a Muslim day of prayer and people seem to be running around in their different, vast regalia in order to go to their local mosque to pray at some stage in the day.
We decided that it would be a pretty quiet day to go for a walkabout and take some photos.
This is some pictures of a bustling market just down the road. It sells vast arrays of fruit, veg, fish and meat. Fruit and veg is ok but would not go anywhere near the others.
Meat carved on the spot...what more could you ask for right lol?
The view of an extremely quiet main road by our house. This is on a day when no one is around and about. You could only imagine it on a busy day.
Some kind of official building.
Building site with scaffolding made from bamboo. OSH would love this!!
We found a nice park in the diplomatic area close by. It has a nice 500m circuit that we walk around a few times and some great inspiring messages to motivate you. They make me laugh!!!
There is a playground for kids as well.
So we had a bit of an adventure walking around the streets. We were approached by hordes of kids wanting to say hello. After following us for about 500m they started to ask for "500tk, 1000tk ...BOSS please please". I told them to get lost and put on my grumpy face. Therefore Grant and I checked out pockets, decided we had not been pick-pocketed and headed home.
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