An odd feeling came over me when I left Bangladesh. I was on the plane from Dhaka to KL and I spent several hours just staring out of the window looking at the night sky and then at the lights of Malaysia. I was exhausted, both mentally and physically, after a month there. I'm being completely honest here, so don't …

This is how I got around in Dhaka, Bangladesh, pretty much every day. I took about four or five of these a day. And one more for you:

Never in my life had I seen so many bananas in one place at one time. Here's a short video from Mokamtala in Bogra district, northwestern Bangladesh. I'm told the bananas go on for about eight kilometres on both sides of the road. Can you imagine how many millions of bananas that must be? More than I could eat, that's …

One thing that will forever stay with me, haunt me perhaps, is the way people have stared at me while I've been in Bangladesh. It's something I've never experienced quite on such a scale. I'm not the most well-travelled chap, admittedly; I've spent most of my time in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Timor-Leste while I've been out in this part …

Sticking with the theme of people holding umbrellas, here is a photo I took at the Leda camp for unregistered Rohingya refugees in Teknaf, southern Bangladesh. More photos from Teknaf and from my travels around the country are on my FlickR account.

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