8 days in a country mostly surrounded by India

In other words Bangladesh. Despite being surrounded by India, and essentially people looked the same, there were so many differences to discover on arrival.

For starters, just some randoms:
The fruit is so much more expensive
The apples actually have flavour if you buy them off the street
Bangladeshi's drive vehicles like auto's except they are green and are called C.N.G's
(Converted Natural Gas. They are trying to convert all vehicles, but they don't call the buses or lorries or cars C.N.G's!!)
The C.N.G drivers are totally surrounded by metal gridlocks which somehow protects them from the passengers. I guess you can't stick a knife or fist through!
On the roads there is hardly much honking and tooting as opposed to the Indian roads
The ladies wear long sharee blouses and hence are a lot more modest than those of India
The street vendors sell peeled cut carrot along with the normal (Indian) cut cucumbers
Friday is their Sunday. I found that quite strange to get used to, but it meant that we could have 2 memorials at different locations this past week.
The residents eat a lot of fish. Some pieces with more bones in them than others!
The muslem prayer calls are a lot louder
We could use rickshaws all of the time, even while we were in the main city. (you don't see them at all in Hyderabad for passengers, as opposed to the city being crowded with rickshaws in Kolkata)
All cars, well at least 95% of them are fitted with bumper cars, and it seemed like there were some quite classy cars on the streets, or maybe they had all just been washed!