This is a guest post from Jonny Ward who runs a blog at onestep4ward.com
Bangladesh is a country that simply gets ignored on the backpacker trail across Asia and I have no idea why! India is hugely popular, Nepal too and SE Asia is overrun with tourists but Bangladesh – almost no one. Although I shouldn’t complain, it means we can have the place to ourselves! Bangladesh is a staunchly Muslim country and the Bangladeshi people are some of the friendliest people I have ever come across in all my travels. Because of the sheer lack of tourists, the locals are delighted that you have made the effort to visit their country – you’ll be inundated with offers of lunch, dinner, tea and a bed to sleep on at their family home. Day in, day out you’ll be shaking people’s hands and answering their bellowing ‘Hello Sir’ from across the street.
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Guest Post
This is a guest post from Alex Sayers. Alex is from England dreams of travelling the world on a cultural odyssey, seeking out new adventures, fantastic experiences and seeing all the sights one exciting country at a time!
A couple of years ago a few friends and I were looking for somewhere cheap we could go to, and having browsed MyDestination.com/Krakow, we settled on Krakow in Poland. Krakow is ideal for anyone looking for a good mix of fun nightlife and cultural sights, and everything is cheap enough for students or backpackers, and we really loved it!
Krakow city streets
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Krakow,
Poland
Comiket is a shortened name derived from Comic Market. As I mentioned in an old post on how busy is Comiket? Comiket now attracts half a million visitors per each 3 day event (known as the summer and winter Comiket). It is a free event but they encourage sales of the Comiket catalougue, detailing what is on the stands each day. It is an epic book itself, about the same size as the bible and Qur’an combined… but with more pictures obviously!
Comiket Winter 2010 Catalogue
It is the worlds largest gathering on self published comic books, known as dōjinshi in Japan (and the world for that matter). The vast majority of displays are amateurs but some professional artists turn up to sell their work (which is often sold on afterwards up to 10x as much due to them being rare). Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Comiket,
Convention,
Japan,
Manga,
Tokyo
