When we got on a boat and asked our boatman "How much?" He bargained the price in the most effective way I've heard in the whole time I've been in Asia: "I'm a poor man, you are well off, it's up to you what you want to give me.."
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Boatmen of Sadarghat
This boat terminal in Old Dhaka was about the most impressive place I've seen in Bangladesh. When I arrived, as the only tourist around, I thought I was in a fairyland. I couldn't believe that what I was looking at was real..
When we got on a boat and asked our boatman "How much?" He bargained the price in the most effective way I've heard in the whole time I've been in Asia: "I'm a poor man, you are well off, it's up to you what you want to give me.."
When we got on a boat and asked our boatman "How much?" He bargained the price in the most effective way I've heard in the whole time I've been in Asia: "I'm a poor man, you are well off, it's up to you what you want to give me.."
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