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Bangladesh has three Unesco World Heritage sites and one of them is Mahastangarh and the other one in Parharpur so it was time for me to sniff up some Bangla culture. Getting to Mahasthangarh was really easy just take one rickshaw driver and pay ten times the local price and 30 minutes later I was in Mahastangarh. Getting the price down to a more agreeable twice the local rate was next to impossible and after asking five different rickshaw drivers who were all in cahuts with each other. In th...

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo by reliving the past of the Silk Roads from Syria to China, going upstream the mighty Mekong from Vietnam all the way to Tibet, see the roof of the world and more.....

We'd got two main places we wanted to see near Bogra: the archaeological sites at Paharpur and Mahastangarh. Fate would conspire against us, however. If there's one thing we should have learnt, it's not to try to run to a tight schedule in the Indian subcontinent. We headed to Mahastangarh on day 1. It's a short bus ride from Bogra, and we got up there easily enough. The hardest thing seemed to be to get a rickshaw to the bus station; in spite of the fact that there are thousands of them aro...