Geography
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Mikey Leung in 1. General Information, Podcast
If you ever wanted to experience the living reality of the idiom ‘when it rains, it pours’, Bangladesh is the place to be. During the yearly south Asian monsoon, almost all the water collected by the Himalayas in Nepal, north/northeast India and Bhutan transits through Bangladesh on its journey to the Bay of Bengal, depositing life-giving minerals to the soil all along the Ganges Delta, the largest river delta in the world.
Celebrate Earth Day 2009 cleaning up the beaches with SAFE
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Mikey Leung in Events, Responsible Travel
Volunteers from different organization will be participating in this year’s beach and underwater Cleanup as part of an earth day activity.
Full Moon Beach Parties at Cox's Bazaar
Posted on 25. Jun, 2008 by Mikey Leung in Best of Bangladesh, Events
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Full Moon Beach Parties in Bangladesh? Just last year, most travellers wouldn’t have dreamed of it.
But the reality is that they are now a monthly occurrence, drawing anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred people to the beachside at Cox’s Bazaar every month.
The parties are an initiative of Alien Shohagh [...]
Refugees need education materials at Cox's Bazaar
Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by Mikey Leung in Best of Bangladesh, Responsible Travel
While the beach at Cox’s Bazaar becomes more and more crowded with people this tourist season, very few know visitors know that there is a refugee camp not far from Bangladesh’s much-heralded beach paradise.
And the people at this camp need help. World Food Programme Volunteer Lindy Hogan writes:
As most of you know, I work [...]
