The Mymensingh Road!

The Mymensingh Road!

this truck is being repaired in the middle of the road!

Part 1
Getting to Mymensingh
This is something we do regularly but something we should never take for granted. There are numerous pot holes (up to 5m in diameter) to go around.

In fact there are all sorts of things to go around, rickshaws, bikes, walkers, tempos, goats, sheep and cows... and that is just the slow stuff. Then there are the other cars, trucks and buses... lots of trucks and buses.

All of these things are also trying to get passed one another and beeping or tooting all the way! Just because something is coming towards you does not mean you cannot overtake. Just beep your horn and keep going and hopefully someone will blink first and move over a bit. Mostly this works well BUT we see a lot of accidents too.

On the way up this week we saw 3 accidents. The worst was between a truck and a big bus, which was then run into by a smaller bus. Can you see why traveling mercies takes on more meaning here!




The road outside our hotel was closed to traffic because of crowds of Eid shoppers

Part 2 Coming home
I wrote the above in our Hotel room in mymensingh. Our trip home was less eventful. Reading and taking photos are great distractor (thanks Jacquie who lends us books). There are many things to get used to about Bangldesh. It seems not to change and yet it does!
On the way home there were numerous people in 3 or 4 different work parties replairing the road... so hopefully by our next trip after Eid, there will be less pot hole to slow us down... that may mean more bus crashes to avoid however!

Road being repaired..NB broken bricks in baskets on heads. These will fill the holes!