Longest muddy beach
From Himal Southasian, Volume 22, Number 3 (MAR 2009) The ten-hour-long luxury-Mercedes-Benz bus ride to Cox’s Bazar across the flat expanse of Bangladesh ends with a surprise. Coming up on Chittagong, the vehicle encounters an incline. For a country that rises northwards at a rate of just about five centimetres over a hundred kilometres, that …