We took it easy this morning, since we didn’t get back to the apartment until about three last night. We got up, then went back to Ayon’s for lunch. Farhan was there too, so we had a huge meal. Ayon’s mom is a great cook and a great hostess, she kept feeding us till we couldn’t eat any more, then put more on our plates.

Afterwards, we headed to the bus station to get tickets for Rangamati, then we took rickshaws through Old Dhaka.
Though there’s not much evidence left of what old Dhaka would have looked like, the gems that do exist are pretty spectacular.

After winding through narrow streets, Ahsan Manzil suddenly appeared in front of us.

Lots of effort has been put into the exterior, it’s just too bad the same hasn’t been done with the grounds.

Then we jumped in a boat for a river tour. This was actually incredibly pleasant. Once we got away from a big riverside factory, the air was considerably quieter and cooler than it was on the streets.

Afterwards Ayon and Farhan left us and Donny and I continued exploring old Dhaka, visiting the sights and smells of Hindu Street.
We had dinner at DPavement, home of “the best pizza in Bangladesh” according to Donny. The pizza was actually much better than I expected it to be, Donny even said that it wasn’t quite as good as it usually is. We tried to ask about the source of the name, got as far as learning that the “D” stands for Dhanmondi, the name of the neighborhood, but that was about all the information we could get.