So, here we are in Kolkata! I love all the old looking yellow taxis that seem to be everywhere. It makes it easy to get around.
Here we are, in the days before we got sick!!
Somehow my photos got posted in the wrong order, but here is a tired Pruitt, after nearly 12 hours of bus travel, including time at the border. This is still on our trip to Kokata, from Dhaka.
Riley remained pretty perky. I had to work pretty hard to convince him to take a nap on the last stretch of the journey. We boarded a nice AC bus in Dhaka at 10:30 p.m., got to the border at 5:15 a.m. and had to wait around till the border opened at 7:00. The Bangladeshi side opened earlier though, so we could get our passports stamped on that side at least. We had to wait in a long lines, literally push and shove and hold on to each other. As we were coming through, Austin heard one of the guards telling the guys in customs not to ask us for bribes because we are foreigners. Everyone else was being asked for 50 taka to get through. It took about 2 hours total to get through both sides, then it was back on the bus and a few more hours till we got to Kolkata. We stayed with Sarah, who works for MCC here in Kolkata, for the first few days. The boys and I hung out there a lot while Austin visited different projects. More to come...
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