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grounds of the hotel where we stayed in Cox's Bazaar
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view of the grounds from our hotel room balcony
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the beach. mostly deserted in the summer since there are so many cyclones in the bay of bengal in the monsoon season, and the indian ocean is treacherous at this time
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Chuck, me & Ammu (my mom)
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patterns created by crabs in the sand
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you can see the crab at the center of the pattern. they run out, scoop up sand into little balls and place them into rows... filtering the sand for food i assume.
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Cox's Bazaar, on the southern coast of Bangladesh, has the longest natural beach in the world
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one of my young teenage cousins, Yasser, died in the ocean a few years ago. this life guard station (behind us in the photo) was built in his memory
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you could find these immense trees "bot gaach" all over the villages of bangladesh at one time
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old Burmese khyang, a Buddhist temple, in the village of Ramkot (near Cox's Bazaar). the temple is built on top of the hill - we chatted with the monk and other people there who were all very nice
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Abbu and old woman on steps to temple
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kids hanging out in the temple
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vibrant green rice fields - standard countryside scene in most of bangladesh (slowly & sadly disappearing because of population pressure & development)
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the "Bara Khyang", old Buddhist temple in Lamapara (near Cox's Bazaar). this is next to a little town called Ramu which was once a capital of the Burmese Arakan kingdom for 3 centuries
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shrine set up in front of this old tree
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Anika and Ammu in front of temple. the 3 wooden buildings of the temple complex have a number of precious Buddhist relics
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this is the largest bronze statue of the Buddha in the country
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old abandoned temple on a hill in the distance. we tried to get to it, but the road stopped, and there was a very steep climb up a hill, so we passed.
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sun shining on water in rice fields... the landscape was beautiful.
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cow in the field. there were animals everywhere, in the fields, along the road, on the road... cows, goats, chickens mainly.
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crossing the river on a bamboo raft
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