Day 5 - Pink Palace

Today is Friday which is holy in Muslim countries.
This is why the traffic was limited this morning so no one woke us up and so we slept till 15.30… (One of our records...)
In the late afternoon we took a taxi to Old Dhaka to visit the Pink Palace which is the major tourist attraction in this city.
Still, the driver did not know how to take us there (we arrived after an hour and a half...).

We arrived eventually though and paid the outrageous entry fee of Taka 2 (2 cents of euro).
It was getting dark and the palace looked impressive in the rain.






The fact that wherever you look you see somewhat 20 faces staring at you, tells you how little foreigners the people here get to see.
It was wet everywhere, streets were full of mud and water, but still we found hundreds of rickshaw drivers offering you a ride, people with sewing machines on the streets, women sitting on the floor offering their vegetables and tons of children begging for some Taka.




It did not seem to be the safest place on earth so we decided to take a taxi to a shopping center, but as it was impossible to explain this to the driver, we told him to drive to the Sheraton, where the concierge wrote down the name in Bangla ... we would have never expected such a modern shopping center in this city, where there
even offer the iPhone…

As economists, we realized that they really have not yet grasped the concept of competition and differentiation – we always found at least ten shops next to each other offering exactly the same products…

At 20h we realized that we hadn’t had breakfast or lunch yet so we got some food in the food court of the mall we seemed a bit dodgy…
let’s see if we are sick tomorrow...