Richard AmmonCox’s Bazar is Bangladesh’s beach resort town on the southeast coast near Burma.
Getting there by bus from Chittagong is another colorful adventure of street life and risky vehicle drivers.
Photos 1-23 reveal the vibrant social and commercial life along the main highway, including military practice maneuvers with soldiers sporting live-ammunition machine guns (photo 9).
Cox’s Bazar town is not picturesque but the hundred-mile long white sandy beach makes up for that.
New glass and marble hotels are rising adjacent to poor tin houses where locals bathe at a communal water handpump (photos 30-36).
South of town are numerous shrimp farms raising valuable seafood.
