Posts tagged “Cox’s Bazar

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A different perspective on the longest beach, with erosion-control measures that weren’t in place (at least in the parts I walked regularly) when I spent more time there in 2018-19-20.

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I know I photographed bananas hanging when I first worked in Cox back in 2018-19 but for myself I haven’t (yet) troubled to go back and check if it was the same shopfront I photographed back then, whose hanging banana bunches captured my eye this visit.

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Some street & city scenes from Cox. One of my first posts during this recent visit showed you a few new graffiti panels in Dhaka, and here you see more of this flourising and colorful new graffiti art which I’m told sprang up rather spontaneously after the sudden departure of the PM in early August. I’ll share more from Dhaka itself, later.


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l arrived home late Friday in Amsterdam, and am posting here the first aerial shots I recall ever managing to take that actually show the Coxs Bazar beach from the air. The skies were wonderfully clear, my seat in the plane perfect aside from one fleck on the window (which you’ll only see in one or two of the gallery below, because I’ve mostly managed to crop the photos to eliminate it), so these are photos as the plane flew southward from this northernmost shot to the final views, at the bottom, as we banked east then north for the return to Dhaka on Tuesday last week.  There’ll be more seashells and others to come before we run out of our stock, but these will help you imagine those tiny shells in their larger context :-). Oh, and the selfie is the first time I ever succumbed to the most-common trope for people landing in or departing from Cox: everyone takes a selfie. Most folks visiting Cox are tourists, mostly Bangladeshi honeymooners and families. So I’m smiling, because the weather was nice, the visit lovely, and I was finally doing that most stereotypical of Cox airport things, the selfie.