Place Dhaka

We've all heard about that list in that magazine where Dhaka is the second worst city in the world. Born and raised in this city, I refuse to believe that. I don't know about you but I'm not one to trust a list on a magazine, so here's a list of reasons to call Dhaka the BEST city in the world.

Take a rickshaw ride with the hood down on an open road on a rainy day before you die; if you don't, you will have died without living. There are millions of rickshaws in Dhaka and the art on the back represents how most people in this city live their lives - colourful and cheap. Speaking of cheap, public transportation in Dhaka is the most efficient mode of travel you could think of.

The roads are filled with buses and minibuses and these truck-van fusion thingies called tempo. There are mild drawbacks to these vehicles, things like pick-pocketing and getting poisoned and mugged, but at the end of the day they do what they're supposed to, which is get you from one place to another.