Bashundara City Mall

Over Eid we visited the Bashundara City mall... ironically not in the Bashundara neighborhood. Reportedly the largest mall in South Asia, it is eight stories high packed with tiny stores. I would conservatively estimate that there are close to 700 distinct stores cramped within the mall. Most things were overpriced and could be gotten for cheaper elsewhere, but that's the price of an airconditioned experience!

The mall wraps around a central atrium. One each floor there are four wings of shops. The floors are generally organized by what products are sold there, so you can go to floor three and check out the shoes/DVD selection, or floor four for sunglasses and watches.

The transporter 2, originally released in 2005 is playing in the movie theater there. I assume it is a special cut, considering Liv Tyler, featured in the bottom right of the poster, appears nowhere in the Western version... it's stuff like that, just inserting a star into a poster for film that is obviously pirated to be shown in probably the nicest theater in the country that can make your head spin.

You just can't get rid of boy bands... On a related note, you also can't get rid of T-Pain, who was playing all over floors two and three.

A view from the top