Lost in Dhaka
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During a journey back to our hosts, I instructed the driver to drop myself and the cameraman in one part of a main shopping area of Dhaka. We then walked a little distance to another part of the shopping area which is not far from where we are staying so we thought it would be fine as we could walk back anytime we wished.
However, we realised that the ladies here in Bangladesh may get upset with the driver, and not wanting to get him into any trouble on our account we phoned him and tried to tell him where to pick us up.
I obviously wasn’t very successful and after still waiting for a further 40 mins for him to find us I in the end asked a local to tell him where we were. The car arrived shortly after and after swearing the driver to secrecy, we got back, said nothing thinking that nobody would know.
The next day we found out that the driver, concerned that he had lost us had phoned one of our hosts and the Soroptimist club here in Dhaka had been phoning round trying to find us, so we had been found out after all!!
Tags: bangladesh, cameraman, hosts, journey, little distance, secrecy, shopping area, soroptimist club
