- In Despite the huge crowd crossing the border I was escorted through the Indian side then the Bangladesh side where they gave me a visa no problem. They are very particular about one having a hotel reservation for some reason which I had done the night before.
A SIM card and money exchange and I was on my way to Jashore (old name Jessore) about 40-50 kms. away.
I was very much an object of curiosity immediately with the first question always “where are you from?”.
Road was good and somewhat less traffic than on the West Bengal side.
I have found so far along the way that some people (guys of course) speak Hindi and when I have asked them where they learned it they said from Hindi movies. It is always a relief because English is not very common.
Last night, in Jashore I was able to buy 2 small cans of Hunter beer and tonight one of those cans would have cost me 800 taka or about 600 r/s. I declined.
