Dhaka

From the very beginning nothing seemed to go as planned on this trip.

To start off with the flight was an hour delayed getting into Dubai, which meant that we had to rush everything, such as setting up and boarding in order to get the plane off the ground as soon as possible. 

Then because the people traveling to Dhaka aren't experienced fliers, they didn't really know where to sit, so we had to show around 150 + passengers to their seats which was fine, but took a while.

Because of the mix up in seating a couple of passengers ended up getting into a physical flight (I happened to be the only one on the scene at the time, just my luck!), so we then had to physically restrain a couple of them and then offload them and then get the witness statements, etc. 

After 2 hours we finally took off, but because we were late into Dhaka the hotel didn't keep the complimentary buffet breakfast we normally get open. With all these bad starts to the morning we decided to forgo sleep and head out into town to visit the orphanage and the Zara outlet shop which we were all really looking so forward to seeing. 

Unfortunately we learnt that due to it being a Friday everything we wanted to go to was shut (at this stage I really felt like it was not our day).

Being the only place that seemed to be open, we then headed to New Market to get a taste of the city. 

The market was a bit of a let down but at least we got to see a bit of their culture, with the men praying in the streets, beggar children, a lady robbing a place and getting dragged to the cop shop then slapped, and heaps of other things. 

After walking around in the heat for a while we were all pretty buggered. So we headed back to the hotel to get some rest before our flight home the next day. Thankfully the flight home was rather smooth (despite two attempts of smoking in the bathrooms).  

I feel sorry for the crew who have to do this sector as a turn around.