Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka

Dhaka, Bangladesh. Not the kind of place you want to arrive late at night, when you can't pronounce the name of the hotel. In fact, there are some that would say it is not the kind of place you want to arrive at under any circumstances! However, the city itself was a fairly pleasant surprise - shopping malls, cheap pearls and even cheaper DVDs, but that's another story. Airport Pick-Up So there I was, getting off an aged Biman Airways aircraft, quite ...
...been. It was approaching midnight, I knew that a car had been booked but would it still be there? Yes it was. Relief. I didn't fancy the idea of trying to say "Son-are-gow-on" to a taxi shark, even without drinking - specially as it is pronounced "Shon-are-gon". The hotel rep singled me out as I came toward customs. He nimbly steered me away from the X-ray machines, into the muggy warmth beyond the doors and into the car. We set off towards the hotel, ...

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