Why Should You Visit Bangladesh Now?

Bangladesh Ranks Lonely Planet Best Top Ten Value Travel Destination

Lonely Planet is a well-known travel content-providing company that publishes travel guides, online publications, travel videos, and much more. Each year, Lonely Planet comes up with Top Ten travel destinations under several categories, and for 2019 Bangladesh takes 7th place as the top value travel destination for 2019.

This totally coincides with my recent Bangladesh trip. Bangladesh is not well known as a tourist spot in the world yet, but that definitely will change in the near future.

The main advantage of visiting Bangladesh before it gets too popular is the rarity of tourists. Places to visit in Bangladesh are still not crowded and you will hardly come across too many foreigners except in the capital Dhaka. Locals consider foreigners as guests and the celebrity-like treatment you will get everywhere you go is hard to find anywhere else on earth.

Bangladesh has endless attractions, both natural and historical, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The world’s longest sea beach at Cox’s Bazar, the mangroves and Royal Bengal tigers in Sundarbans, Ratargul Swamp Forest, Saint Martin Island are only a few to mention.

But if you need only one reason to visit Bangladesh before anything else, that would be the value you will get out of your own currency. This is one of the most inexpensive countries on earth and a dollar stretches beyond imagination. A cup of tea or a bottle of water costs 25 cents, a street food full-course meal costs $2 to $3, a fancy restaurant full-course meal costs $10 to $15, a first-class luxury train berth sleeper (it’s like train’s lie flat business class) from Dhaka to the other region in Bangladesh costs $12 to $15; the same trip by plane costs about $30 to $35. Are any more examples necessary? I don’t think so.

I have lots of Bangladesh Travel Videos from my trip and I am planning to visit this great country, which is not a popular travel destination yet, in the near future.

A Dawn Journal & Entrepreneur Journey Merging to Ahmed Dawn Dot Com

A Dawn Journal & Entrepreneur Journey

The time has come to move my highest traffic website, ADawnJournal.com, to AhmedDawn.com. Another website, EntrepreneurJourney.com, will be forwarded to AhmedDawn.com as well.

I have been working to save and move all articles from these 2 websites for a while. As I am more concentrating on www.YouTube.com/ADawn, I don’t want to deal with writing and actively maintaining too many websites like I did in the past.

However, I will still be holding a handful of domains that I believe will have value in the future. I don’t need to maintain these domains, as they are just parked domains.

I might make some videos as well on the Internet and related topics in the near future. It all depends on how my YouTube channel is growing and if these types of videos will be suitable at that time. 

4 Countries – 7 Business Class Flights – 1 Month – 1 Carry-On

My Singapore – Australia – New Zealand – Malaysia Trip Starts

My well-anticipated trip is near. I have been waiting for this trip so long that now it feels hard to believe I am leaving Toronto in one week (as of this writing). 

I am departing Toronto on Nov 23, 2018. My first stop will be Singapore. From there I will complete my travel in this order:

Singapore to Melbourne

Melbourne to Auckland

Auckland to Sydney

Sydney to Malaysia

The full trip is almost a month long. I will be regularly updating my:

Blog (www.ahmeddawn.com

Instagram (www.instagram.com/adawnjournal)

YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/adawn)

If you haven’t subscribed already, subscribe now my YouTube channel, as it will feature all the videos I will be sharing with you. I concentrate on travel videos, business class flight review videos, business class airport lounge reviews, food videos, packing tips, travel tips and hacks, and much more.

My YouTube subscriber base is growing exponentially and I will be able to bring you more travel videos in the future.

As my main purpose is to film my travel experiences, I carry various cameras and travel gadgets. But I am still able to pack everything in one carry-on. I will provide you some tips on how to pack and travel with only a carry-on in the future.

I hope you follow this journey and I will see you shortly from the other side of the world. This post was written in Toronto, Canada on November 18, 2018.

How To Motivate Yourself In Difficult Times

Take Inspiration and Motivate Yourself

There are times when it can be difficult to motivate yourself to do pretty much anything. These times can spring from anything from tiredness to fear, and there are certainly cases where the reluctance to act can be caused by a medical condition, but what it boils down to is that a reluctance to act, which can be extensively damaging, is often the product of a combination of matters and can be hard to overcome. In these situations you need to look at the problem head-on and say “I’m not going to be broken down by this – I’m going to break it down”. Although this is generally easier said than done, managing it brings many rewards.

The ability to stick at things even when it seems difficult or pointless is something prized highly by bosses. It wouldn’t be fair to say that apathy is endemic in society, but it is troubling to see talented people laid low by a lack of confidence, especially when that lack is brought on by what amounts to an arbitrary failure. Say, for example, that a person has competed in a talent contest or an open training session for a sports team. In such cases, talent is very much in the eye of the beholder. Coaches and record execs have often made the decision to plump for one of two people based on a very subjective selection criteria. The people who have been passed over may have gone on to assume that they would never succeed, but that is not always the case.

Witness the NFL. Every year teams draft players to feature in the playing squads that will take them through a season, and they have their selection criteria set ahead of time. It is universally accepted that guys selected in the first round of seven are expected to succeed, those selected in the second and third rounds are hopefuls, and below that you may have a 50/50 chance of making it if you put everything into the game. In 2000, Tom Brady was selected in the sixth round by the New England Patriots. Nine years later he has won three Superbowls, being voted Most Valuable Player in two of them. 2000 was widely viewed pre-Draft as a thin year for quarterbacks, and five were selected before Brady. The truth is that sometimes people don’t realize what they have passed up.

There are stories like this in all categories, and every time it is the story of the individual who was passed over for an arguably less talented person because it’s just this simple – opinions differ. If you let one person’s evaluation of you be the one that sticks, and it’s a negative opinion, then you don’t give anyone else the encouragement that might be the difference between choosing you and passing you over. Keep in mind that sometimes people need to keep trying in order to succeed – take inspiration from one of the many who may not have got there first, but have stayed there longer than those who did.

To streamline and minimize blog maintenance, I will be discontinuing maintaining the Simplepersonaldevelopment.com website (however, I will still hold the domain). I will gradually move all articles from this site to Ahmed Dawn Dot Com site. This article originally published on the above website on August 8, 2009.

Canadian Real Estate

Number of House Sales is Falling Fast, Prices Not So Much

First Published Date : February 19, 2009 ADawnJournal.com

The Canadian Real Estate Association has released its latest figures, and with them comes the news that house sales are falling in number as the housing market continues to feel the pressure of the global credit crisis. The headline of the latest figures is that sales have fallen by 41 per cent in the 12 month period from January 2008 to January 2009. With sellers reluctant to put their houses on a market that is filled with fairly anxious customers, the level of sales will naturally fall. What is positive, though, is that the prices on house sales are staying relatively constant by comparison.

While things south of the border continue to lurch while we wait for the results of President Obama’s stimulus package, Canada is showing many other countries that house prices do not need to fall anywhere near as fast nor as far as they have been elsewhere. One of the most remarkable pieces of news is that house prices have actually stabilized in recent months, with no fall since November. The good news overall is that the meltdown which has happened in the US seems unlikely to be repeated in Canada.

The Teranet-National Bank house price index – a highly technical database which uses enhanced data to compare year on year house prices – has shown an actual small rise (+0.6%) in prices between November 2007 and the same month in 2008. The same comparison for the USA has shown an eighteen percentage point fall – and a 25% fall overall since 2006. And although it is true that the figures seem to depend hugely upon the people providing them, the most reliable, respected indices are showing positive signs for the Canadian housing market.

There is certainly no disputing that numbers are falling still – houses are not being sold in such large numbers as they were before – but there are signs that the problems are being addressed. When sales fell off in 2008 this happened in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto – where house prices are relatively high. Consequently, people in those cities are less likely to put their houses on the market in 2009, until things improve at least. Sales in Montreal, Winnipeg and Ottawa, comparatively, have remained more constant – unsurprisingly, as these are higher-priced cities.

As a rule, higher-priced houses are not being sold quite as often as before, with consumer confidence inevitably falling as a consequence of the fears over jobs – Canada, seen by many worldwide as an example of how to run an economy cautiously but positively, recently announced record job losses in one of the biggest signs yet of how global this crisis is. In the lower price cities, prices are beginning to rise while they fall in the higher priced cities. But overall the big news from the latest figures is to be summed up in one sentence: not the best news, but a lot better than some others are getting.