Train Surfing in Dhaka, Bangladesh

So did you have any preconceived notions or expectations of what's going to be on the ground once you arrive?

Yes.

So I knew that just from my own research that it was going to be extremely bad pollution-wise.

I think Dakar is, in fact, the most polluted city in the, in the world.

Um, I'm not actually sure exactly what the numbers lie in terms of the air quality index, but I know it was definitely the highest.

I knew going into that, that, um, my health would definitely suffer, uh, breathing in, you know, polluted air every day for the last five days, and especially being in a month in India as well.

I'm still actually recovering.

I'm in Kazakhstan now, but I'm still actually recovering sinus-wise from all of the pollution there.

But I knew that the pollution was going to be bad and I knew that the street food was going to be very, very different to India because obviously Bangladesh is a Muslim country and how that differs to India is that obviously The majority of India is a Hindu country where they see gods as very holy.

So I knew that for the month I was going to be in India, I was going to have no beef.

So the second I got to Bangladesh, I was kind of like, cool, give me a cow.

Like, what's a beef now?

Dog's got to eat.

Exactly.

What were some first impressions then once you get on the ground? I mean, you just named off a ton of things that you had expected.

Was that where those expectations met? And what were some first impressions upon arrival? It kind of even

blew my mind because what I didn't expect is obviously when you land in a new country, when you get close to the country, you look outside the window and you can kind of see a little bit about what you're about to expect.

In Bangladesh, that is not the case.

What you see is... maybe two seconds before you land.

And that's about it.

Like you're in the air and the pilot is saying, okay, in half an hour, we're going to land.

And you look outside the window and it is just cloud.

You cannot see anything.

And for me, there was like, oh my God, wow.

Like I'm not going to see the sun, which I don't think I did.