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driving to Chittagong from Dhaka. this is the countryside along the way. rice paddies. everything is so green in the monsoon season.
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the highway
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a bigger version of the baby taxi on the highway. used to travel from one village/town to another
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the plots in the center are being prepared for rice planting. the green plots are rice growing.
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this one pic shows rice in its different stages of cultivation/growth. each plot is in a different growth cycle
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shades of green and blue... rice fields, banana trees, blue hills in the back and the blue sky with puffy white clouds
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more rice fields, banana plantations, and the hills
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bus passsing by us on the highway. they drive psychotically, you can see how beat up they get. rule of the road: if you are in a smaller vehicle, you move out of their way.
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more of the countryside...
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dark heavy monsoon clouds gathering. look at the little goat hanging out by itself in the corner
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brick factory in between the rice fields and the hills. the reddish stuff is all bricks
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bangladeshi trucks are colourfully painted, like the rickshaws
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outside the shipbreaking yards, on the side of the highway. lifeboats from ships. all along this stretch of the highway, any salvageable items from the ships (other than the metal) are sold - from refrigerators to condiment bottles
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inside a shipbreaking yard. scrap metal piled up
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most of the supertankers of the world are taken apart in Bangladesh, here in Chittagong, by the Bay of Bengal. you can see the ships in the background that are being dismantled.
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labourers in the shipbreaking yards, toiling away under the hot sun. apparently around 200,000 people work in the shipbreaking industry
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half this supertanker has been dismantled already. every part of the ship is going to end up getting used again - nothing is wasted here, everything possible is "recycled" in a poor country like bangladesh
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Abbu (my dad) and Chuck. the labourers in the distance are carrying a huge refrigerator. almost all manual labour here - everything is done by hand. no cranes to lift & move heavy objects
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most of this tanker has been taken apart, its insides exposed
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bangladesh doesn't produce steel. 80% of our steel is derived from the scrap metal from these ships
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it was fascinating to watch these monster huge ships being taken apart
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Chittagong city. so different now from when i lived there as a child. tall buildings everywhere, congested....
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