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The Brick Furnaces of Bangladesh

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When your plane approaches the airport you may be wondering what all those chimneys  spread across the countryside  are. Here are a few photos of the brick furnaces that are everywhere in the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital. Sand from the river banks is cooked in the furnaces to make bricks used for the new buildings of the ever expanding city. Here are two  videos from that country: Dhaka. Bangladesh. Travel on the rooftop of a train Vegetable wholesale market in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh More are coming, the next time I go there.