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The Kohima central market

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Just because markets are fun, and Kohima’s market is populated by fun people, who are incredibly nice and friendly, patiently explaining the various goods for sale – many of which I haven’t seen before. A few more pictures, of the odd products, the colourful stalls, and the atmosphere.
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48. Kohima

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As soon as we leave the plains of Assam and enter the mountains to the south, we know we are in Nagaland. We are supposed to show our permits again – for Nagaland we need an Inner Line Permit, an ILP, much easier to obtain that the PAP for Arunachal Pradesh. But there is no [...]
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44. Numaligarh

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Back on tierra firma, having arrived at the Nimati Ghat on the south bank of the Brahmaputra by much larger ferry, we soon hit the Assam Trunk Road, the main east-west throughfare. It is Sunday, which seems to be special market day par excellence. We first reach the general market at Roschuc (?), a rather [...]
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16. Dhaka

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To be honest, Dhaka is not an attractive city. And there is not much in term of touristic highlights either. But by dismissing Dhaka this way, you actually miss the point. You have to experience Dhaka, go outside, meet the people, taste the local street food, hear the continuous noise from traffic, and smell the [...]
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13. Khulna

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Some you win, and some you lose. Our stay in Khulna was going to cover no less than two Unesco World Heritage sites: the Sundarbans and the so-called 60-dome mosque. On the way, we pass through prawn culture country, with large ponds used to grow prawns. The fishermen’s houses, together with small huts on stilts, [...]
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08. Saidpur

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The Bangladesh part of our trip, the next two weeks, has been organised. We will be traveling around the country in a small group, seven in total (of which some will be dropping off already at various stages before the end). To every corner, really. Our first destination is Saidpur, in NW Bangladesh. We use [...]
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23. Pristina

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Pristina is by no means a beautiful city; like all the towns we passed on our way in Kosovo, construction is here also a dominant feature, and it looks like not much has been finished yet. Nevertheless, there is an old town, sort of, where some of the historical buildings from Ottoman times have been [...]
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20 Riga (2)

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Earlier I mentioned a third area of interest, beyond Central Riga and Old Riga, and this is the area south of the Old Town. Here is the Central Market, a sprawling complex covering five huge German-built halls to store the infamous WWI zeppelins. When the market was moved to its current location in 1930, the [...]
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15 April 2023

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We had the idea of going to Bunce Island, a small island in the Sierra Leone river that empties in the ocean here. Bunce Island is the old British slave traders base, supposedly well protected, but demolished several times, by the French and by pirates. And now by the ravages of time, the place is [...]
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14 April 2023

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We need to change money. ATMs are no good, because the maximum they dispatch is the equivalent of 40 US$. Our cash dollars are good for local currency, the Leone, which confusingly comes in old and in new notes. We briefly feel ourselves a millionaire, with all these LE 10,000 notes, until we realise that [...]
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