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Beaches, hills, tea gardens and centuries of history. Find your next trip, then book the bus to get there.
HeritageDhakaNational Parliament HouseLouis Kahn's landmark building, best seen from the lake and lawns around it.
DistrictNatore, RajshahiNatoreThe old seat of Rani Bhabani’s great estate, with two palaces — Natore Rajbari and Uttara Gonobhaban — the vast Chalan Beel, and the kacha golla sweet the whole country knows.
Illustrative photoHeritageNatore, RajshahiNatore RajbariThe palace of the Natore rajas, set among ponds and old gardens.
Illustrative photoHeritageDinajpur, RangpurNayabad MosqueA small three-domed eighteenth-century mosque with terracotta decoration, a short way from the Kantajew Temple.
Illustrative photoNaturePirojpur, BarishalNazirpur Floating GardensWetlands where farmers grow vegetables and seedlings on floating beds of water hyacinth through the flood season — a centuries-old way of farming on water.
DistrictNetrokona, MymensinghNetrokonaA land of haors, baul songs and the Garo Hills’ edge, where the Someshwari river at Birishiri and the blue-green clay lakes of Bijoypur draw travellers north.
IslandNoakhali, ChattogramNijhum DwipA quiet island national park south of Hatiya, where herds of spotted deer graze among keora mangroves and migratory birds crowd the mudflats in winter.
Lake & RiverKishoreganj, DhakaNikli HaorA vast haor that becomes an inland sea in the monsoon, with a long embankment road, village islands and boat rides to the horizon.
Lake & RiverSunamganj, SylhetNiladri LakeA blue-green lake in an old limestone quarry, with the border hills just behind.
Illustrative photoHillsBandarban, ChattogramNilgiriA hilltop above the clouds in Bandarban, a few hours' drive from Chattogram.
DistrictNilphamari, RangpurNilphamariA quiet northern district where the Teesta enters Bangladesh: the Teesta Barrage at Dalia, the old Nilsagar lake, and Saidpur, the railway town with the region’s airport.
Illustrative photoLake & RiverNilphamari, RangpurNilsagarA large, centuries-old dighi near Nilphamari town, wrapped in legend, with tree-lined banks and migratory birds in winter.
DistrictNoakhali, ChattogramNoakhaliA coastal district on the Meghna estuary, known for its lively dialect, Gandhi’s 1946 peace mission and the island of Nijhum Dwip, home to spotted deer and mangroves off Hatiya.
Illustrative photoNatureGazipur, DhakaNuhash PalliThe garden estate that writer and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed made in the Gazipur countryside, where he is buried — a place of trees, ponds and memories for his many readers.
Illustrative photoLake & RiverMymensinghOld Brahmaputra RiversideThe broad, slow river that frames Mymensingh town, with a long riverside park, boats to the sandbanks and the green campus of the Agricultural University downstream.
Illustrative photoHeritageGopalganj, DhakaOrakandi ThakurbariThe home of Harichand Thakur, founder of the Matua faith, and the movement’s great place of pilgrimage, which fills with devotees for the Baruni Snan each spring.
Illustrative photoHeritageBarishalOxford Mission ChurchA tall red-brick church from the early 20th century, built by the Anglican Oxford Mission in the middle of Barishal city, with quiet, tree-shaded grounds.
DistrictPabna, RajshahiPabnaAn old district town on the Padma, known for the Hardinge Bridge at Paksey, the terracotta Jor Bangla temple, Suchitra Sen’s childhood home and its handloom and dairy villages.
Illustrative photoLake & RiverShariatpur, DhakaPadma Bridge, Jajira EndThe southern end of the Padma Bridge, the country’s longest, where the riverbank at Jajira gives wide views of the bridge stretching across the Padma.
Lake & RiverRajshahiPadma riverbankEvening walks along the Padma at T-Badh and Padma Garden, with sunsets over the river.
Illustrative photoHeritageNaogaon, RajshahiPaharpur Buddhist ViharaThe ruins of Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.- Illustrative photoHeritageRangpurPairaband, Begum Rokeya’s birthplaceThe village where Begum Rokeya, pioneer of women’s education in Bengal, was born in 1880, with the ruins of her family home and a memorial centre in her name.
Illustrative photoHeritageFaridpur, DhakaPalli Kabi Jasimuddin’s HouseThe family home of the poet Jasimuddin on the Kumar river, with his grave under the pomegranate tree he wrote about and a small museum.
HeritageNarayanganj, DhakaPanam CityA street of ruined 19th-century merchant houses in the old capital, an easy day trip.
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