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Postcard from Dhaka

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Adam Mountford | 11:29 UK time, Thursday, 25 February 2010

is known as the "" with reportedly over 400,000 of the famous two wheeled carts making slow progress along the cities roads every day.

I say slow progress because so far the horrendous traffic here in the capital of Bangladesh is the only negative side of what has so far been an enjoyable start to this tour.

Dhaka is one of the densest populated cities on the planet with they say more than 40,000 people for every square kilometre, that is more than ten times the figure for London. And it can sometimes seem that virtually every one of those people here has some sort of vehicle out on the road at any one time.

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