18th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Challenging-Train journey of Eid vacation

A day before of Eid-Ul-Azha (Adha), a train starts journey with overcrowded passengers while three men run for riding the engine from Kamlapur Railway station, Dhaka, Bangladesh; it is very risky journey- however, they are not bothered by this issue. Everybody has to go home anyhow; they don’t have option to reach their home before Eid day-after that they will participate the festival with family members and relatives. Generally each and every year, before Eid vacation millions of people leave Dhaka by trains, buses, launch/ships, airplanes and many kinds of vehicle for participation of Eid festival with their family and relatives in their home-lands. Here the photo portrays that there are no spaces inside train-bogeys, roof-top even engines, everywhere are passengers. Sometimes two to three people killed by fall off the train during journey every year. Yet every passengers take risk; anyway they have to go to home. It is unstoppable journey.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2018
Date Uploaded: 11.2020
Photo Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Copyright: © Shafayet Apollo