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Dhaka, the capital is a huge and crowded city of more than 12 millions of inhabitants. We stayed in the nice residential area called Dhanmondi, but we went around to see the city.The places of interest and the beautiful parks are many, but surely you must visit the Old Dhaka.It is very easy to get stuck into the crazy traffic and the thousands of rickshaws.
Subandarbans- means the beautiful forest.This is the world's largest mangrove forest and one of the last strong hold of the famous The Royal Bengal Tiger. Visiting Sundarbans is realy memorable and adventurous, which is unusal forest than others. As this is a special forest UNESCO listed it as The world haritage site.Sundarbans is unique for nature lover or thoes who want to pass time in a virgin forest to watch birds and wildlife.
The people of Bangladesh are extremely friendly as I found out on several occassionsThe most striking was the man on the picture, who helped me out when I was having a really tough time when suffering from a very bad eye infection. He not only accompanied me to a hospital, he also took me to an important cricket match and invited me in his home several times. I also met the goalkeeper of the Bangladesh National Soccerteam, who invited me for a dinner in the most expensive restaurant I'd been eaten for a long time, and excused himself a thousand times for having obligations that evening.A dozen of other men in various places gave me their cards or addresses in case I needed help with anything.And then the common people on the streets, in the guesthouses, in the trains or buses, almost without an exception extremely friendly and (trying to be) helpful, most of the time without expecting...
A nice 2-3 day outing from Dhaka is a visit to Srimangal, surrounded by beautiful tea plantations that you can explore on a bicycleYou can contact Mr. Razu, who started a tourist business and is recommended in the LP-Bangladesh after he provided local info to the writer.He can arrange a local guide -usually students and rents out bicycles. A bicycle tour should include a visit to an Estate. The enormous tea Estates are mostly British owned.The Estate of Finlays, for example, offers work to 100.000 workers in main harvest season to produce 10 million kg of consumable tea! Finlays provides also houses for the worker’s families, education of the children and even medical and religious services. The Lawachhara Reserve is also close, not amazing, just nice.
The river is very lively and fascinating, used by all kinds of people for all kinds of purposesYou can cheaply rent small boats for a sightseeing trip in the port or along the riverside. Depends on you for how long! Boatmen are looking out for customers on the pier. Negotiate the price politely (ca. $1-$2/ hour for non motorized boat is very generous).
Some travellers rate Dhaka as one of the worst cities on earth. Well, maybe in terms of slums I must agree, but otherwise I think Dhaka has great character I think you have to stay a couple of days to find out & appreciate.Dhaka is very lively, dynamic and culturally interesting. Fascinating to walk through the old city, to visit the markets, to talk to people and just observe life. So many things happen. Don't forget a boattrip on the river! Or take the upstairs frontseat of a doubledecker bus to do some sightseeing!
The Sundarbans consist of a huge cluster of islands with mangrove swamp and, forests, creeks and rivers, where you may spot the rare Bengal TigerI arranged with one of the fighting boatmen a day trip (all in $12/boat) into the NP.It turned out to be quite disappointing. Instead of exploring the more remote creeks and canals, we mostly stuck to the main river. Moreover the boatman was spitting terribly loud continuously and he also thought it was a good idea to bring a radio to follow the latest cricket match, despite my objections.It wasn’t really the entourage in which I hoped to explore this area full of tigers, crocodiles and colourful birds. And besides a snake in a tree and a few birds, we didn’t spot anything. If you want to do some decent exploration, I highly recommend to rent a boat and make the journey to Hiron Point and make a 3 day trip out of it!My visa expired and went back...
In Bangladesh cricket is extremely polular, and sports no 1. Try to watch a game, it likely will be an unforgettable exprerience.I was invited to watch the Bangladesh - Pakistan match and although I didn't understand much of it, with 20.000 people, great weather and nice snacks it was big fun anyway!
The the slums of Dhaka "megacity" are huge... and extremely poor. Most of the people live in miserable conditions and with no clean water supplies nor any kind of sanitation..............it's really hard sometimes don't get devastated by what you see on those streets...
The green of rice fields... the red of the bricks... orange purple blue yellow of the rickshaws and the beautiful sarees of Bangladeshi women........Everything have strong bright colors... it's a pleasure for the eyes.
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