Srimongol: 50 Shades of Green

Pardon the corny pun of a title.  I couldn’t resist.  There is really nothing remotely risqué about the Bangladeshi tea town of Srimongol.  There are, however, numerous tints of verdant awesomeness that I was privileged to explore over the course of the past action-packed weekend with my friends and coworkers.   

Essentially, we boarded a train on Thursday and bustled non-stop through the lush tea-gardens, reed-filed marshes, idyllic country villages and unbelievably green rice paddies of Syhlet for two days.  Dani and I arrived home late Saturday night, exhausted but stoked that we managed to see such a beautiful portion of the country in such a small amount of time. 

Rather than writing a single massive post about the highlights of the weekend and boring you all with oodles of details in one sitting, I plan on writing a short blog post each night for the rest of the week.  Coming up in the near future: my discovery that pineapples do NOT grow on trees, train travel in Bangladesh, a mystical variant of tree that will knock you senseless and much more!  

Stay tuned!