good morning guys this is doug and i am
in bandurban bangladesh right now i just
spent the night here it was absolutely
amazing it was raining and i had my own
little cottage so the sound of the rain
was perfect i'm out here in the country
it's so green so beautiful so quiet
which is really nice after the uh pretty
crazy
cities of chittagong and dhaka
just here having some breakfast and then
we're gonna go off and explore
this region
of bangladesh i'm so excited here we go
all right i just finished up breakfast
that was very tasty now i'm headed back
to my cab and i want to show it to you
guys real quick
it's uh it's it's pretty cool
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so check it out there's two beds in here
i'm only using one of course and i've
got my bug net
on top of it right now and you can see
kind of like that hut in egypt if you
saw that video from nueva this is open
air like
it's not insulated so you can just feel
the nice cool breeze i could hear the
rain
and then through here
the best part
the porch
with an amazing
view
so relaxing here's the bathroom
sink
toilet
and
shower
all open air
so relaxing i love it here i'm so sad
i'm only spending one night when i come
back to bangladesh i'm definitely coming
back here this was uh amazing oh and
thank you to my friend ming
for recommending that i come here and
helping me out with the permission to
come to this region that is one thing i
should mention to come to bandarban and
this region the the chittagong hill
tracks it's called you do need special
permission as a foreigner bangladeshis
don't i believe but as a foreigner you
do because there is some
low boil
ethnic tension or ethnic conflicts that
have been known to occur here nothing
super dangerous or anything as far as i
know but you do need a special
permission that you can request from the
government and my friend ming was so
nice uh to help me out with that my
friend ming and her family so thank you
so much okay i've gotta shower up real
quick and pack up and then in about a
half hour i'm off to explore the region
a little bit go for some hikes
and check out the chittagong hill tracks
i'm so excited here we go see in a few
alrighty we are out walking
i'm with my guide this is lol
and uh we're just walking down the road
here
it's like a brick road
through the jungle
up and down very steep hills and we're
on our way to a village right yeah yeah
which is tripura community villas
community village and you said what uh
it's one of ten right yeah it's ten
different
communities a language community in
bandurban wow so 10 different languages
each group has a different language
it is different language even
the marma tripura
community and you're from bombay i am
from bomb yes okay i have my mother
language i speak in my house
the bomb language will go take down
another village it is
another community if possible i can
speak
the other person
for a language so you speak it a little
bit uh yes wow amazing and bangla and
english yes so many languages all right
so we're gonna go
check out this village
stay tuned
yes
wow so cool
oh wow that's how they build it huh
oh my gosh look at that they're building
the roof
oh my gosh
that's amazing
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so we were just talking and lal asked
one of the people that lives here
he said about 250 people live here right
yes 35 to 36 families and every
every family
family member
was
four person or six four to six people
per family on average but they're all
kind of related in a in a broader family
because they're from the same
village and people here like they get
married to people from this
village normally
we choose tripura to tripura right but
the same person it is changing this is
depend on love this is yeah
this love is blank
love is blind
yeah i made it uh marma
they put out
possible so it is possible uh normally
uh parents
they prefer uh they are not acceptable
this is yes they they prefer to yeah
that makes sense that makes sense so
it's more common to marry within the
same village or tribe but
people are also do it outside as well
very cool wow oh my gosh this is so
beautiful look at this really in the
jungle here huh
you can see across there
there's more of the village and this is
the toilet
look at this ah okay
how many do they have for the whole
village every house oh every house okay
nice
it's like a government sign on the this
is the government sign so they built the
toilets yes okay it's perfect
temperature right now yes such nice
weather and the government comes and
probably builds this too
yes so before this was bamboo or
something
before yes bamboo okay
bamboo bridge
all right guys we are back
close to uh the resort where i was
staying and we're walking down now to
the river that is uh in the vicinity
going through the through the jungle
here down some bamboo steps and uh then
i think we're going to be taking a boat
to bondurban
town or city and that's where i will be
getting my bus
onward
to a different part of bangladesh
and during the rainy season this would
be all waterfall here
wow so the rainy season is coming in
june uh before before
may may okay so it will get very humid
here and then rainy season for about
three months
over the summer
you can't even see the resort where we
came from
it's thick jungle
people growing right nice field buddy
they're growing rice here
wow from the rice you know that
oh my gosh yeah that's rice yeah
people collect
the main owner man intellect already
and through english is
rubbish
all right guys it's getting steep here
try not to fall here we go
okay
i caught myself it rained last night so
it's very
slippery
okay there it is
wow
peanuts
really
wow i don't think i've ever seen a
peanut farm before and beans oh yeah
look at this
amazing
they're growing so many different things
here
in this region it's amazing there's some
people farming right there
oh my gosh this is so beautiful
what is that eggplant eggplant yeah this
is the easy in this area because of
nearby the water right right right okay
in rain season up to the
house until full of the water really
yeah the water goes all the way up to
that house
it's crazy how much the like life
changes with the rainy season
it's just something like we don't even
think about in the us so so different
thank you
okay
here yeah here and front yeah okay
all right and we're off
here we go
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hi
bengali tourists
okay
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man what a beautiful
place to live
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ah they're shipping it down the river
okay okay
they're pumping water from the river to
the to the village
oh my gosh and preparing the wood so
they'll they'll send it down the river
to sell in the town
okay
oh yeah you can see that up there
they've got all the wood being cut up
there it'll go down the river to the
town to be sold to make furniture and
build whatever else
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so look at these houses guys those
houses
that are built on stilts like that
it's because the water in the rainy
season might come all the way up to the
bottom of their houses on this side
because they have to be built like that
pretty unbelievable the water can rise
this much
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thank you bye-bye
all right that was amazing so this is
van der maan city here
right on the edge here hey guys real
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to the video all right so we're here in
the town now we're just walking through
a little market
selling
seafood and vegetables and everything
this is really cool i really like it
here alrighty guys i am now on a bicycle
rickshaw
going through bandurban city to the bus
which i'm going to be taking to cox's
bazar so this is going to be the end of
the video this was amazing oops
this was an amazing
but too short trip to bandurban i have
to come back here it was so beautiful i
wish i could spend more time my favorite
place in bangladesh so far so anyway i
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