Visit to the Big Sea

19 January 2007
It’s Friday, it’s the beginning of the weekend here in Bangladesh…. But….. my team decided to work half a day so we’d be able to return back to Dhaka earlier…. Progress was slow though, which was to be expected I suppose, being a weekend and all…..

We didn’t get as much done as I had wanted, but we’ll just have to pick up the slack tomorrow…. We left for our half day sight-seeing trip after Friday prayers and lunch, an hour away from the client’s location…..

It was a man-made lake, measuring 1200 by 400 yards, which was excavated in the mid 18th century, called Ramsagor…. Ram meaning big, and Sagor meaning sea….. Ramsagor was dug up by a Maharaja in that region of Bangladesh…. Legend has it that the daughter of the Maharaja had walked into the lake, possibly for a bath…. And she was pulled in by a mythical creature, and never to be seen again….

Further inside the area are the ruins of what could have been a rest house of the Maharaja, and a deer enclosure, who were very happy for tourists to come and feed them fruits and peanuts…. They were so tame, they came right up to the fence, and ate the peanuts out of my hand….









Hehe, this time I didn’t forget to bring my camera :)