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Beaches, hills, tea gardens and centuries of history. Find your next trip, then book the bus to get there.
DistrictPanchagarh, RangpurPanchagarhBangladesh’s northernmost district, where on clear autumn mornings Kanchenjunga rises above Tetulia, flat-land tea gardens line the roads and Banglabandha marks the country’s northern tip.
BeachChattogramPatenga Sea BeachWhere the Karnaphuli meets the Bay of Bengal. Watch the ships waiting for the port at sunset.
Illustrative photoHeritageNaogaon, RajshahiPatisar Rabindra KachharibariThe estate house on the Nagar river where Rabindranath Tagore stayed while running his family’s Kaligram estate, now a memorial museum.
DistrictPatuakhali, BarishalPatuakhaliThe coastal district of Kuakata, the “daughter of the sea”, where you can watch both sunrise and sunset over the Bay of Bengal, with Rakhine villages, Buddhist temples and wide estuaries.
Illustrative photoDistrictPirojpur, BarishalPirojpurA district of rivers, canals and orchards on the Baleshwar, home to the guava market of Atghar-Kuriana, the timber town of Swarupkathi and the floating gardens of Nazirpur.
Illustrative photoHeritageRajshahiPuthia Temple ComplexTerracotta temples and a palace of the old Puthia zamindars, around quiet ponds.- Illustrative photoHeritageSirajganj, RajshahiRabindra Kachharibari, ShahzadpurThe Tagore family’s old estate office at Shahzadpur, where Rabindranath lived and wrote in the 1890s — now a museum of his life and belongings.
Illustrative photoHeritageMagura, KhulnaRaja Sitaram Ray’s Palace RuinsThe overgrown remains of the capital Raja Sitaram Ray built at Mohammadpur in the early 18th century — palace walls, temples and the great tanks he dug.
Illustrative photoHeritageRangamati, ChattogramRajban ViharaRangamati’s great Buddhist monastery on the edge of Kaptai Lake, founded around the revered forest monk Banabhante.
Illustrative photoDistrictRajbari, DhakaRajbariA quiet Padma-side district at the meeting of the Padma and the Jamuna, home to the old river port of Goalanda and the last home of the writer Mir Mosharraf Hossain.
DistrictRajshahiRajshahiRajshahi, on the Padma river in Bangladesh's north-west, is known for its silk, its mangoes and the Varendra Research Museum, and is often called the Silk City.
Illustrative photoNatureLakshmipur, ChattogramRamgati Meghna RiversideThe Meghna’s edge at Ramgati and Kamalnagar, where embankments look out over char lands, buffalo herds and fishing boats on a river as wide as the sea.
Illustrative photoLake & RiverDinajpur, RangpurRamsagarA huge eighteenth-century tank dug by Raja Ramnath, now the heart of a shady national park just south of Dinajpur town.
Illustrative photoHeritageCox's Bazar, ChattogramRamu Buddhist templesOld monasteries and a large reclining Buddha, a short drive from town.
DistrictRangamati, ChattogramRangamatiThe lake district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts: green hills standing in the blue water of Kaptai Lake, Buddhist monasteries, Chakma and Marma villages, and the road up to Sajek Valley.
DistrictRangpurRangpurThe capital of Bangladesh’s far north: a green, unhurried divisional city with the Tajhat Palace, the domed Carmichael College and, an hour away, the village where Begum Rokeya was born.
ForestSylhetRatargul Swamp ForestA freshwater forest standing in water for much of the year, explored by small wooden boat.
Illustrative photoHeritagePirojpur, BarishalRayerkathi Zamindar BariThe old palace buildings and temples of the Rayerkathi zamindars, just outside Pirojpur town.
Illustrative photoForestHabiganj, SylhetRema-Kalenga Wildlife SanctuaryOne of the largest surviving natural hill forests in Bangladesh, on the Tripura border, with long trails, a watchtower and rich birdlife.
Illustrative photoNatureKhagrachhari, ChattogramRisang WaterfallA waterfall near Khagrachhari town where the water slides down a long, smooth slope of rock into a pool below.
Illustrative photoHeritageShariatpur, DhakaRudrakar MathA tall old math (memorial temple tower) from the zamindar era at Rudrakar, one of the best-known old structures in Shariatpur.
Illustrative photoLake & RiverKhulnaRupsha RiversideKhulna’s working river: ferry boats, cargo vessels and the long span of the Rupsha Bridge, best at sunset.
Illustrative photoHeritageNarail, KhulnaS. M. Sultan Memorial MuseumThe riverside home of the painter S. M. Sultan on the Chitra, now a museum of his life and work, with his grave and his children’s boat nearby.
Lake & RiverDhakaSadarghatOne of the world's busiest river ports, where launches leave for the south.
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