KEOKARADONG, MOUNTAIN KEOKARADONG
Mountain Keokradong
BANDARBAN
Information:
Keokradong (or Keokradang) is the third highest mountain peak located in South-Eastern Bangladesh, with a questioned altitude of 1,230 metres (4035 ft), and it is located on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar (also known as Burma). On the top of Keokradong there is a small shelter and a signboard made by the Bangladeshi military. It is 30km away from the Ruma sadar Upazilla. During the winter season many adventurous tourists to visit this mountain. This remote hilly region is full of natural beauty. You can be overwhelmed at the first sight of this mountain. Keokradong is very close to the Myanmar border and you can see an endless courses of mountains and hills. This area is covered with deep forests full of animals and beast.
How to reach:
Ruma is 50 kilometer away from Bandarban. It is a remote upzila Bangladesh due to lack of developed communication and transportation. From any where if you want to go Keokaradong you have to reach at Bandarban first. There are direct bus services from Dhaka. Dolphin, S. Alam , Unique ,Soudia leave Dhaka for Bandarban at late night. Any one can even move from Chittagong. There are some services from Baddarhat Bus station. From there you have to go Ruma. Most used transport is named Chander Gari. This will take you near to Ruma bazaar. It will take around two to three hours depending on the road and other factors. Then you have to ride on a boat. Some time especially in winter you may can have a hike up to Ruma Bazaar. On the way heading to Ruma you have to register your name & address in the nearby military check post. Your next destination will be Bogalake, A tribal village at estimated 1167 feet. From Ruma sadar you can hire pickup or jeep up to Boga Lake and you have to walk through the hills from Boga Lake to Keokradong.
Food and Accommodation facility:
In Bandarban you can stay at Govt. Rest house, Porjoton Motel and lots of hotel & motel (cost of 100 taka to several 1000 takes). In Ruma bazaar you can stay Hotel Hilton or any other Boarding or any tribal house. Without anywhere mentioned previously you can stay any tribal house with negotiation. You have to confirm at first the hotel reservation before going to Ruma, otherwise you will have no alternative passing the night. Except the rest houses of district council In Bogalake There is no other accommodation facility.
Up to Bandarban you will find local restaurant. After you leave Bandarban for the trail, you have to depend on whatever food you have or you may ask the tribal village to prepare some local food for you. Tourists have to carry dry food , water purifying tablet warm clothes, torch light, orsallaine, anti mosquito lotion and other necessary medicines.
Shelter and a signboard put up by the Bangladeshi military
Remember:
This journey is very much strenuous. So keep confidence. Always carry
drinking water and first aid box. Show positive behave with local
people and should respect to their culture. No mobile network, no
restaurant and also no well road communication in Bogalake.You should
start your journey early in the morning from Bogalake to reach
Tajingdong. It may take 7 to 8 hours to reach Tajingdong. You should
remember that you are not allowed to leave Ruma for visiting Bogalake
after 4 pm, Keokradong or Tajingdong.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
TAJINGDONG, TAZING DONG
Mountain Tajingdong
BANDARBAN
Tajingdong ridge seen from the trail to Sherkor Para
Information:
Name: Tazing dong also known as "Bijoy". Also spelled as Tahjingdong,
Hight: Tajingdong is about 1,280 meters high from the sea level.
Location: Situated in remakri pangsha union under Ruma upazilla of Bandarban in Bangladesh.
Meaning of Tajingdong: According to local tribal language“Tajing” means “Great” & “Dong” means “Hill” so that means “Great hill”.
Community: Various tribal community is developed surrounding the mountain and their living styles are so natural.
There are three different peaks of
Tajindong rang named as Chir Chir Moy, Tajingdong and another one is
unnamed.This remote area is full of natural beauty. Here you can see
many small and big mountains and hills. This area is covered with dense
forests, birds and animals.
How to reach:
For visiting Tajingdong you have to reach at Bandarban first then go to
Ruma Upazilla. As it is a remote area of Bangladesh, the road is not so
plain.The communication systems of Bogalake become very difficult in
the Rainy season.From Ruma you can hire a pickup or jeep (locally known
as “Chander Gari”) up to Koikhong Jiri. You can also go there by buying
tickets of Chander Gari or Bus. It will take 1-1.30 hrs. Koikhhong Jiri
to Ruma you have to go by 1 hour boat journey. Again Ruma to Boga Lake
you should hire a jeep. Then you have to walk through the hills from
Boga Lake to Tajingdong.
Accommodation facility:
In Bandarban you can stay at Porjoton Motel, Govt. Rest house and lots
of hotel & motel within the cost of 100 taka to several 1000 takes. In
Ruma bazaar you can stay Hotel Hilton or any other Boarding or any
tribal house. Without anywhere mentioned previously you can stay any
tribal house with negotiation. You have to confirm at first the hotel
reservation before going to Ruma, otherwise you will have no
alternative passing the night. Except the rest houses of district
council In Bogalake There is no other accommodation facility.
Remember:
This journey is very much laborious. So keep confidence. Always carry
drinking water and first aid box. Show positive attitude with local
people and should respect the tribal culture. In Bogalake There is no
mobile network, no restaurant and also no good road communication.You
should start your journey early in the morning from Bogalake to reach
Tajingdong and it may take 7 to 8 hours to reach Tajingdong. You should
remember that after 4 pm you are not allowed to leave Ruma for visiting
Bogalake, Keokradong or Tajingdong.
Note:
Many tourist visits the Tajingdong Mountain in every year. It is the
place of surprising beauty. This natural beauty is surely attracts the
mind of the adventurous people. In the winter season many adventurous
tourist visit this place with great excitement. You will pleased with
the dazzling beauty of green hill, cool fountains, zigzag path, hilly
road side, hide and seek game of clouds on the top of the hill.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
NILGIRI
Nilgiri
BANDARBAN 
Nil_giri, the mountain of blues. A tourism centre and 2200 feet high from sea level.
This is around 47 kilometers from Bandarban town. Nil_giri is an
excellent place for sight seeing. It is the highest Hill Resort of
Bangladesh, with very attractive natural beauty. The sky and hill are making a good relation here. You will be gassed when you see that the cloudy sky often kisses the peak of the mountain. You can see and enjoy the movement of ships in the Bay of Bengal at sunlight.
The clouds sometimes touch and kiss you. Clouds are playing with you
and you can touch them. At rainy season clouds are touching position
from you. It is a ideal place for photo shoot of the natural beauty.
Nil_giri is a resort controlled by the Bangladesh Army.The
services of Nilgiri are very fine. The army manages it methodically
and orderly.You don't need to take any extra permission to visit the
place, except foreigners with you, or you are a foreigner, then you
have to take permission from the DC of Banderban. If you go there, you
can never forget the sight seeing and attractiveness of this sight.
You have to hire a car, or chander gari to reach the nilgiri from Bandarban town. The hotels of the bandarban town are really cheap. For your travel you can stay there. Also you can stay at "Nilgiri Resort" of Nil_giri mountain if you are interested . Around 2 weeks beforeYou have to book the rooms you visit the place due to rush.
Nil_giri is a place, full of calmness and serenity. So, do you have the passion to touch wet cloud? Have you want to make relation with sky and hills? Nil_giri is waiting for you with beauty.
THE BUDDHA DHATU JADI TEMPLE, THE GOLDEN TEMPLE OF BANDARBAN
The Buddha Dhatu Jadi
BANDARBAN
The Buddha Dhatu Jadi Temple also has
another name that is Bandarban Golden Temple. It is located close to
Balaghata town, in Bandarban City, in Bangladesh.The Bangla word "Dhatu" means Material. Here ‘Dhatu’ refers to the material that belongs to a sacred owner. As the material belongs to Buddha in this temple, it was named ‘The Buddha Dhatu Jadi’. It is the largest Theravada Buddhist Temple and it has second largest Buddha statue in Bangladesh.
Founder:
Ven. U Pannya Jota Thera is the founder and chief priest of the temple.
He belongs to Royal Bohmong family of Bandarban. He is a Theravada monk
since 1991. He had served the Government of Bangladesh for 8 years as
a Senior Assistant Judge. The Buddha’s Dhatu (relic), which is
enshrined in the temple, was a gift given to Ven. U Pannya Jota Thera
in 1994 by the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee of Myanmar.
The Bandarban Golden Temple belongs to the Theravada Buddhism order,
which is practiced by the Marma tribal people, a dominant ethnic group
of Bandarban. It was built in 2000 in Arakanese architecture, an
adoption of South East Asia style. The temple is built on top of a 60
metres (200 ft) high hill, which is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from
the Balaghat town, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Banderban city.
Its golden colour and eye-catching architecture make it a feast for the
eyes.
Apart from the second biggest Lord Buddha statue
enshrined in the sanctum, there are smaller statues and a golden bell
set on a dragon within the temple precincts. The Dhatu, the corporeal
relics of Buddha, has been enshrined here below four statues of Buddha.
The Dhatu is enshrined here, with the basic belief among Buddhists that
it provides for peace of mind and happiness.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
MEGHLA PORJATAN COMPLEX
Meghla Porjatan Complex
BANDARBAN
Entering Meghla
Meghla Porjatan Complex:
is the most visited spot by the tourists coming from all over the country. The Porjatan Complex is just 4 Kilometer away from Bandarban town.
Two hanging bridge
By building a dam a man-made lake has been created. Here is a great
arrangement for the tourists. In Meghla has a children’s park, a mini,
two hanging bridges, zoo, and has boating facilities on the lake.It
is a popular place for picnic party. A lot of tourist makes the way to
Meghla for enjoy their vacations.
Country's first cable car at Meghla Parjatan Complex
If you want to go this place you can hire Jeep or CNG auto rickshaw to
visit to Meghla. Local buses are available. Communication to Meghla is
easy, for that a lot of tourist makes the way to Meghla for celebrating
their vacations.
Mini Zoo at Meghla Parjatan Complex
NOTE:
Food:
1) There is no
arrangement for lunch inside Meghla. You can have snacks only. If you
want to stay whole day there so you can take lunch packet with you.2) Outside Meghlathere are two restaurants with Chinese and continental food at Holiday In resort and Parjatan Motel.
Accommodation:
3) All accommodation facilities are also available in the resort and the Parjatan Motel. 
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
BOGA LAKE,BANDARBAN
BOGA LAKE
BANDARBAN
BANDARBAN
Bogalake,
a legendary beauty, is a naturally created water reserve on hilltop.
Bogalake is highest natural Lake of Bangladesh. It is 1500fts above sea
level & 15km away from Ruma Sadar Upazilla. This lake has covered
an area of 15acre. The color of the water is blue. When you see this
lake, you look as if there were a familiarity between the blue of sky
with the blue colour of the water in Bogalake. The attractions of
Bogalake catch the attention of the travelers who are yearning for the
unquenchable thirst for beauty and adventures.
It is such a place that can magnetize you with its blue water
resources, serpentine set-up, mysterious thin pathway with lots of
small fountains, vast greenery and its tribal community. In Bogalake,
you can find the pleasure of your thirsty adventurous mind in every
step.
Small tribe community like Bawm,
Khumi have localities beside the Bogalake. Here you will find lots of
excitements and enthusiasm at Bogalake. You will certainly be amazed
looking at the big rocks lying in and out of the Bogalake
In the rainy season, it is quite difficult to stroll the Boga Lake because the road from Ruma to Boga Lake is still under construction.
The people who lives around the boga lake are "Boom" by religion. They
have their own language. They are polite, and will welcome you from
their heart. You'll love the accompany of the local people. Also beside
the lake you'll find an Army camp for security reason. You have to
entry your name at the camp before anything.
If you go to Boga Lake therefore at first you have to go Ruma Sadar Upazilla from Bandarban. On the way you have to register your full address and other details in the respective security camp.
You have to make a trip at first from Bandarban to Ruma by public jeep. From Ruma you can hire public jeep up to Boga lake. You can also have a walk for Boga Lake in winter season.
PRANTIK LAKE
Prantik Lake
BANDARBAN
Prantik in Bangla meaning fringe, the lake derives its name from its
location, being located on the Bandarban-Chittagong district border.
With abundant natural beauties Prantik Lake lies in Holodia near the
Keranihat-Bandarban road. It is 14km away from Bandarban town. It
requires 30mnt's drive. It covers an area of 2500acre. The management
authority of this lake is LGED.
This lake is surrounded by a good many varieties of trees. It has been
regarded a natural habitat for different bird species. This lake is an
ideal place for fishing. You can have fishing opportunity in this lake
with the permission of the authority. It is an ideal place for
excursion and family tour in solitude.
It
is an exquisitely beautiful place to visit with your family. It has a
place lake. Tranquility pervades the place all the time. Situated
amid lush greenery with high hills and placid lake, it has a lot to
offer to a visitor. It has a wonderful watch tower with spiral stairs
where you can have a better view of the area. It is a wonderful to
hold picnic. Don’t forget to take food and drinks there as it does not
have any shop there, though you can buy food and drinks from shops
just beside the high way to Bandarban.
SHAILAPROPAT WATERFALL & BAWN VILLAGE
Shailapopat Waterfall & BawnVillage
BANDARBAN
BANDARBAN
This very painless hike is entirely along a quiet, surfaced road and is
the most popular 'hike' with bangladeshis, through that;s only because
they can complete it while sat in a nice shiny car! The walk itself,
which takes about an hour in either direction , is highly and, at time
quite steep, but it's far nicer then the the goal, which is a small
water fall carpeted in litter. Very close to he water fall is the Bawm
tribal village of Faruk para, where you can buy some beautiful basket,
woven fish traps and rugs.
Shailapropat is an attraction for waterfall, which is surrounded by
hills & forest, 8 km from Bandarban. Be carefully while you go to
Shailapropat - the rocky path way is very slippery. If you are not
cautious there, is a good chance to sleep & make an accident.
People may think that the risk may not exist at dry season, cause the
rocks are dry that time. But beware about your wet foot. Cause the
driping water from your feet can make the dry rock slippery once again.
So be careful when you make your every single steps.
The water of the falls is really cold. No matter whatever the season is.
This is possibly for the rocks. It used to make the water cold. You'll
feel like heaven when you'll put your feet into the water of the
falls. Local people used to have their bath at the water of the falls.
You'll find several iron made bridge at the vicinity of the falls. If
you have more time you can go to the bridge and have a view of the falls
from the far side. Also the authority have made a view point at the
spot, you can enjoy the fall's beauty, specially when its rainy season.
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
Chingrong Buddhist Vihara
CHITTAGONG
Chingrong Buddhist Vihara
is oldest temple established about 2 hundred years ago. This Temple is
located at Shilchari, Kaptai, Rangamati. The abbot of this Vihar is
belongs to the Marma community. About fifty-sixty monks Remain
here regularly. The abbot can speak Bengali and Burmese both language.
Majority of the monks of this Vihar/temple are from Marma people. It is a
public survice temple. The monks take part in Dana, funeral and other
religious function. Chingrong Buddhist Vihara is about 76 km far from Chittagong town.
RAJBON BIHAR
Rajbon Bihar
RANGAMATI
(Rajbon Bihar Rangamati, Bon Bihar, Buddhist Bihar)
RANGAMATI
It is 1 km far from Moitri Vihar situated at Rangamati municipality.
Rajbon Bihar is one of the lovely Buddhist temple of Bangladesh. It is
Located at rangamati district. It is one of the well-known tourist place of Rangamati just few km. from the main bus terminal. You can hire a boat or a auto-rickswa to visit the Bihar. It is a Pindapata temple.
About 50 to 70 monks reside here regularly. Visitor are requested to
keep in mind thist it is a place of prayer, so do not do anything that
hart any one by you.
You must have to enter that place with bare feet to respect their tradition. In rajbon Bihr, there are many monkey
stay around the Place. You can give them some food/nuts. There is a 7
stored building and wit a name each floor represents a paradise.
Entering into the main prayer area, There are some small
buildings/prayer hall inside.
A musk of Buddha Prepared
from bronze and kept with a wall for the tourist inside the Bihar. No
matter from where you are looking at that musk, you'll feel that its
looking at you. There is an eldest monk, named "Ven Sadhanananda
Mahathero (Bana Bante)", who is around 94 years of old, and lots of
Buddhist used to visit with tribute to get Please from him, and the god. From all directions it is a beautiful tourist spot. So you are welcome in this site to visit.
Monk : Ven Sadhanananda Mahathero (Bana Bante)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
GANDHI ASRAM
Gandhi Asram
NOAKHALI
Situated about 23 km. north-west of Choumuhani town and 2 km. east of Chatkhil at Jayag in Noakhali district. This asram was established in the memory of historic visit of the Mahatma Gandhi to Noakhali and devoted to his ideology. In 1946-47 Mahatma the protagonist of Ahimsa ideology visited this region with a view to preach peace. Historical Charka and other valuables used by Mahatma are preserved in this asram and those evoke deep respect to the unique memories of the great soul
Thursday, October 27, 2011
NIJHUM DWIP, NIJHUM ISLAND
Nijhum Dwip / Nijhum island
Nijhum Dwip means, Silent Island is a small island under Hatiya upazila. It is situated in Noakhali District in Bangladesh. Once it was called as Char Osman.
This virgin new island of Nijhum Dwip raised on the estuary of the great Meghna channel in the mouth of The Bay of Bengal. The geographical location has been identified just 2 kilometers south west of Hatia under Noakhali district. This newly accredited island may be called as cluster of islands consist of more than 4-5 small islands like Char Osman, Char Kamla, Corner of Char Osman and isolated from the mainland by Hatia channel.
Nijhum Dwip, was designated in 2001 as the Nijhum Dwip National Park. The park is rich in plant and animal life, as well as being home to plentiful bird-life, while hosting numerous migratory birds.
The forestry department of Bangladesh created lush mangrove forests in Nijhum Dweep as part of conservation efforts for the area. One of the main attractions in these forests is the herd of Spotted Deer, which is believed to number more than 5,000. The Keora (or Kerfa) tree was chosen for its fast growing root system, which anchors itself into the sandy ground. The leaves of this hardy tree are the spotted deer’s favorite food, but most of the leaves are too high for the deer to reach. In an excellent example of how animals help one another, the resident monkeys shake or pluck the leaves from the trees, dropping them where the deer can pick them up. The wood of the trees is used in the construction of housing, as materials for boat manufacture and the manufacture of agricultural implements, as well as fuel for domestic use. Other animals that visitors are likely to see in the Nijhum Dweep National Park and off its shores include Clawless Otter, Fishing Cat, Snakes, Tortoises, Turtles and Dolphins.
At high tide a significant potion of the island becomes covered in water, apart from the cultivated, inhabited areas. In addition to the mangrove forest, the island has huge inter-tidal mudflats and sand-flats, which are of utmost importance to resident and migratory water-fowl, and serves as the southern most stop-over for close to 100 species of migratory birds, around a dozen of which are considered to be globally critically endangered. Birding enthusiasts can look out for various species of Heron, Egret, Cormorant and Ibis, as well as Spotted Green Shank, Spotted Red Shank, Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Indian Skimmer.
The inhabited part of the island is cultivated and watered by a number of fresh water streams running across it. The people living on Nijhum Dweep make a living from fishing, and are self-sustaining to an extent through the produce they grow and there are a few markets on the island, selling all types of general necessities.
Those who have visited the Nijhum Dweep National Park will tell you that getting there is an adventure in itself, with the last leg of the journey on a local motorboat or “water-taxi”. But the general consensus is that the Nijhum Dweep National Park is a fascinating place to explore when visiting Bangladesh, and becoming acquainted with the people who live on the island is an unforgettable experience.
Since there is no regular river transport or passenger route from Dhaka to Nijhum Dwip, it is difficult to organize direct tour program from Dhaka to Nijhum Dwip and Kuakata beach through coastal water ways. The main problem is that there is no navigation light and lusider, there are hundreds of submerged islands due to the constant deposition of silt through the Megna estuary.
NOAKHALI
Nijhum Dwip means, Silent Island is a small island under Hatiya upazila. It is situated in Noakhali District in Bangladesh. Once it was called as Char Osman.
This virgin new island of Nijhum Dwip raised on the estuary of the great Meghna channel in the mouth of The Bay of Bengal. The geographical location has been identified just 2 kilometers south west of Hatia under Noakhali district. This newly accredited island may be called as cluster of islands consist of more than 4-5 small islands like Char Osman, Char Kamla, Corner of Char Osman and isolated from the mainland by Hatia channel.
Nijhum Dwip, was designated in 2001 as the Nijhum Dwip National Park. The park is rich in plant and animal life, as well as being home to plentiful bird-life, while hosting numerous migratory birds.
The forestry department of Bangladesh created lush mangrove forests in Nijhum Dweep as part of conservation efforts for the area. One of the main attractions in these forests is the herd of Spotted Deer, which is believed to number more than 5,000. The Keora (or Kerfa) tree was chosen for its fast growing root system, which anchors itself into the sandy ground. The leaves of this hardy tree are the spotted deer’s favorite food, but most of the leaves are too high for the deer to reach. In an excellent example of how animals help one another, the resident monkeys shake or pluck the leaves from the trees, dropping them where the deer can pick them up. The wood of the trees is used in the construction of housing, as materials for boat manufacture and the manufacture of agricultural implements, as well as fuel for domestic use. Other animals that visitors are likely to see in the Nijhum Dweep National Park and off its shores include Clawless Otter, Fishing Cat, Snakes, Tortoises, Turtles and Dolphins.
At high tide a significant potion of the island becomes covered in water, apart from the cultivated, inhabited areas. In addition to the mangrove forest, the island has huge inter-tidal mudflats and sand-flats, which are of utmost importance to resident and migratory water-fowl, and serves as the southern most stop-over for close to 100 species of migratory birds, around a dozen of which are considered to be globally critically endangered. Birding enthusiasts can look out for various species of Heron, Egret, Cormorant and Ibis, as well as Spotted Green Shank, Spotted Red Shank, Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Indian Skimmer.
The inhabited part of the island is cultivated and watered by a number of fresh water streams running across it. The people living on Nijhum Dweep make a living from fishing, and are self-sustaining to an extent through the produce they grow and there are a few markets on the island, selling all types of general necessities.
Those who have visited the Nijhum Dweep National Park will tell you that getting there is an adventure in itself, with the last leg of the journey on a local motorboat or “water-taxi”. But the general consensus is that the Nijhum Dweep National Park is a fascinating place to explore when visiting Bangladesh, and becoming acquainted with the people who live on the island is an unforgettable experience.
Since there is no regular river transport or passenger route from Dhaka to Nijhum Dwip, it is difficult to organize direct tour program from Dhaka to Nijhum Dwip and Kuakata beach through coastal water ways. The main problem is that there is no navigation light and lusider, there are hundreds of submerged islands due to the constant deposition of silt through the Megna estuary.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
BAJRA SHAHI MOSQUE
Bajra Shahi Mosque
NOAKHALI
The mosque was erected by one Aman Allah in 1741-42 AD during the reign of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah. This is valuable archeological resource of Bangladesh, it consist a versatile mode of architectural design.
NOAKHALI
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| Bajra Shahi Mosque |
Bajra Shahi Mosque is located in the village of Bajra under Begumganj thana of Noakhali district.
The
Bengali and Persian inscriptions fixed over the gateway of the outer
wall and on the inside wall of the mosque record that it was thoroughly
repaired in the years between 1318 to 1335 BS by the Bajra Zamindars
Khan Bahadur Ali Ahmad and Khan Bahadur Mujir Uddin Ahmad. The mosque is
now in a fairly good state of preservation.
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| Bajra Shahi Mosque Gate |
The mosque was erected by one Aman Allah in 1741-42 AD during the reign of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah. This is valuable archeological resource of Bangladesh, it consist a versatile mode of architectural design.
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| Bajra Shahi Mosque |
SHUVOLONG WATERFALL, SHUBOLONG WATERFALL (JHORNA)
Shuvolong Waterfall
RANGAMATI
Shuvolong has a beautiful waterfall with the natural surroundings.The only available path to reach at the waterfall is through water, through the lake. People visit there by boat. It is a popular place with the tourists for the waterfall, high hills and the natuarl surrounding it offers.This waterfall is just before the Shubholong Bazaar. Means from the waterfall, it will take around 5 minutes to reach at bazaar.
During rainy season the current of the waterfall is strong. During winter the current may not be strong, but water flow is there. Now the authority has made some facilities for the visitors there.
NOTE:
If you plan to visit this waterfall, you can make a single day trip easily from Dhaka. At any weekend, or government holiday, you can come to visit this beauty.
More Photo:Shuvolong Waterfall
KAL BHAIRAB TEMPLE
Kal Bhairab Temple
Deity at Kal Bhairab Temple, Medda
BRAHMANBARIA 
Kal Bhairab Temple is a famous temple located in Medda, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva.
The temple, dating back to the 19th century, is famed for the giant Shivalinga, said to be the largest in the world.
The place is a major pilgrimage place for Shaivites in Bangladesh.
AKHAURA RAILWAY JUNCTION
Akhaura Railway junction
BRAHMANBARIA
It is in Brahmanbaria district
Chittagong, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Dhaka are connected through this Junction
BRAHMANBARIA
Akhaura railway station -one of the most important railway junction
of eastern part of Bangladesh, from the capital Dhaka you will have to
pass through this station for Chittagong and Sylhet and also gateway
to Agartala, Tripura , INDIA -only five Km away.
It is in Brahmanbaria district
Chittagong, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Dhaka are connected through this Junction
SEA BEACH
Patenga Sea Beach
CHITTAGONG
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| Patanga Sea Beach |
More information : wikipedia
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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| Sunset |
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| Row of speed boat at patanga beach |
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| Sunset at Patenga Beach |
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| Patenga Beach |
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| Patenga Beach Cloudy Weather |
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| Tourist at patenga sea beach |
Monday, December 5, 2011
HERITAGE PARK
Shaheed Zia Memorial Complex and Mini Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG
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| Heritage Park |
The museum includes a rolling restaurant. It's main attraction is the
replica of famous and major building of the country such as Jatiya
Sangsad Bhaban(parliament building), Jatiyo Sriti Soudho (National Memorial of Savar), Ahsan Manzil, Curzon Hall of Dhaka University, Paharpur Monastery, Kantajew Temple of Dinajpur, Lalbagh Fort and Sona Masjid. The heritage park also has variou rides for children.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
Sunday, December 4, 2011
FOY'S LAKE
Foy's Lake
CHITTAGONG
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| Foy's Lake |
Amusement Park :
Foy's
Lake is a man-made lake which located in Chittagong district. Created
in 1924 by the assam-bengal railway located at Pahartali. It was named
after the engineer Mr. foy. Foy's Lake is near to Batali Hill, Highest
hill of Chittagong metropolition area. This is an amusement park,
directed by the Concord group. Its total area is 320 Acres of land.
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
Category Attraction :
The park consist with a water theme park, resort and an amusement center. This park Offer you theme
park rides and boating on the lake, landscaping, restaurants,
concerts, scenic walking trails and many other attractions. A small zoo
also has been se up in the park. There is an another lake also made by
assam-bengal railway in 1920. Those lakes are tourist spot of chittagong
city.
As a popular tourist spot local and foreign tourist visit this site daily . So n doubt that it is a country famous and enjoyable ourist place.
For more information Follow :
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's Lake |
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| Foy's lake Resort |
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's Lake Sea World |
Saturday, December 3, 2011
SHRINE OF BAYAZID BOSTAMI (Rh)
Shrine of Bayazid Bostami (Rh)
Pond of the Tomb:
For more details: About Bayazid Bostami (Rh) and his Shrine
CHITTAGONG
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| Tobm of Bayazid Bostam (Rh) |
Shrine of Bayazid Bostami (Rh):
Bayazid Bostami was a Well-known Persian saint born in Bostam, Iran. His Tomb and Mosque
are located in the Nasirabad of Chittagong. It is a complex
consists a tomb a mosque and a big pond. This tomb was built in 1831 on
a hill area. The tomb is enclosure of 9.15 m squre wall and 4.58m high
with battlement and a pillar rising o.61 m above them at each angle. A
sarcophagus was in the centre of the area (3.66m : 2.75m).
 |
| Bayazid Bostami (Rh) Mosque |
Old Mosque of the Shrine:
There is an old three-domed mosque with Mughal
architecture built at mughal period. In the middle of the mosque has a
big dome and beside its has a small dome.At the 4 corners has four
affianced octagonal Minaret, capped with cupola, furnished with raised bands. The bottom of the Minaret is shaped like a vase.It has three doors the middle one is bigger.
 |
| Bostami Kachim |
In the front side of the shirin, there has a big pond named localy
Bayazid Bostami Pukur. In the pond there has well number of Black Soft
Shell turtle. The turtles has another name that is Bostami Kachim called
locally as Gadali-Madali. The turle are very rare now
only found this freshwater turtle in india (assam) and Bangladesh
(Chittagong). As of 2002, the IUCN classified the species as Extinct in
the Wild.
For more details: About Bayazid Bostami (Rh) and his Shrine
 |
| Tomb of Bayazid Bostami (Rh) |
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Ethnological Museum
CHITTAGONG
The Ethnological Museum situated in the busy commercial street of
Agrabad, Chittagong, and one of the most tourist attractions of
chittagong.A unprecedented treasure house of different Type
of tribal culture and heritage of Bangladesh. The
Museum was established in the first half of 1965. The museum
authorities has collected many scarce element used in daily lives of
different tribal habitance.
The Ethnological Museum has almost 4 galleries and one small hall. Three
galleries of the Ethnological feature various elements of twenty five
ethnic groups including Chakma, Hajang, Tongsinga, Khumi, Murang,
Sautal, Garo, Marma, Chak, Monipuri, Palia, Tipra, Lusai, Shimuji, and
Bom. And the fourth gallery present the lifestyles of few racial
groups of Pakistan, India, and Australia.
The sculptures of the people of varity tribal locality and a piece of broken Berlin-Wall Attract
the visitors mainly the children who can get impression of
miscellaneous festivals, cultures, and livelihoods of the ethnic groups
from the mural setup at the hall-room.
These are remindful of the Ethnological Museum in the film 'Planet of the Apes'.
People between 200-300 visits the Ethnological Museum daily in addition
and a number of researchers from local and foreign country.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
CHITTAGONG COURT BUILDING
Chittagong Court Building
Court
Building: Situated on the Fairy Hill, this building commands a
magnificent bird's eye view of Chittagong city, particularly
at night. This gigantic Judge Court building was built
immediately after the East India Company conquered and
declared Chittagong as a separate administrative area in 1773. The
building is huge, over 250 thousand square feet and has hundreds
of rooms.
The
building has a unique blend of Mughal and British traditions,
representing a new Indo-British architecture. The building plan
follows a rectangular form running east west with extension on
the west and a major north-south extension on the east after
which the buildings extends further at a lower level. This
permits this section to have three floors. The plan is largely
dictated by the topography of the site. The blending of different levels
was done with extreme care. Bricks were laid with immense
skill, making neat protruded mortar joints.
The
Court Building is of immense historical importance. Legal
proceedings against many renowned persons had been conducted in
this building. These consist of cases against persons revolting
against the British rule and subsequently Pakistani rule. During
the Indian Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, a valiant freedom fighter,
Subedar Rajab Ali was tried here and subsequently hanged at the
Parade Ground. During the Partition of Bengal movement (1905-1912),
Deshpriyo Jatindra Mohan, Kazem Ali and Moulana Islamabadi were
tried amongst others. Revolutionaries of the Chittagong Uprising
(1930-34) Maste rDa Surya Sen, Kalpana Dutta, Ananta Singh,
Purendu Dastider, Binod Bihari, Pulin Ghosh, Tripura Sen,
LoknathBal, Chowdhury, were tried here.
So were Joshoda and Ambika Chakraborti of the Anushilon Party
during the same movement. This movement is the forerunner of
the Quit India movement which culminated to the end of British
Rule in the subcontinent. Both Subash Chandra Bose and his
brother Sarat Bose defended the freedom fighters in this
Building.
During
the Quit India Movement in 1942, numerous national leaders
like Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, G.M. Sayeed, M.A.Jinnah
visited the Court building. Later, during various movements
(1948 1970) including the Language movement (1952) important
national leaders like Shaheed Suhrawardy, Moulana Abdul Hamid
Khan Bhasani, Sk. Mujibur Rahman, and others visited the Court
Building and addressed the Bar. During 1971 freedom fighters
from the Pakistan Rifles took shelter here, which resulted in
the shelling of this Building by the Pakistan army. The first
administration of the newly formed Bangladesh was housed in this Court
Building. Records of court cases of numerous such trials are
preserved in the Building.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
CHITTAGONG PORT
Chittagong Port
Chittagong Port the principal sea port of Bangladesh, is situated in the estuary of the karnafuli River, which originates in the hills north-east of the chittagong hill tracts and flows into the bay of bengal.
The main significance of this port lie in the fact that it provides a
deep-water anchorage a few miles inland from the sea. The steering
distance is 16 kilometres from the outer bar on the Bay of Bengal to the
main berths on the bank of the river Karnafuli.
It is a deepwater seaport dominated by trade
in containerised manufactured products (especially ready made
garments), raw materials and to a lesser extent passengers. It is one
of the two main sea port of Bangladesh - most of the export and import
of the country are handled via this port. Window berthing system was
introduced at the seaport on August 6, 2007, enabling the sea port to
provide the arrival and departure times of all ships. Two berths at the
port terminal are kept in reserve for emergency. In 2006 the port
handled 27 million tonnes of cargo and 0.8 million tonnes of containers
. The port
handled 1.5 million TEUs (twenty equivalent units) containers in
2010-11, up from 12.12 lakh TEUs in the previous year, according to the
CPA Traffic Department.
The
location of the port and its natural harbour made it an
important centre of trade and business as far back as the 9th century
AD when the Arab merchants found it to be a lucrative centre for
trade. By the beginning of the 15th century, the port of
Chittagong was an important trading centre. Chinese chronicler ma huan,
who visited Chittagong in 1405 with a Chinese mission, refers
to "Chit-le-gan" as a port frequented by Chinese trading vessels.
The most frequent visitors to the port were the Arabs.
The history of Chittagong port dates back to the fourth century
B.C. Malayan history chronicles the journey of the sailor Buddha Gupta
from Chittagong to Malaya in the 4th century B.C.
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea documents the existence of
Chittagong port in the ancient times. Chittagong derives its name from
the Arabic word Shetgang (Shet means delta and Gang the river). The Arab
traders considered Chittagong to be the delta of the Ganges.
Chittagong port has been mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, Fa-hien,
Hieu-en tsng, lbn Battuta. This was an important port used by the
traders from the Middle East, China, Turkey, Europe to trade with this
part of the world.
During the 9th century the activities of the port increased
tremendously as the Arab traders started using the port as their base
port. They used to call the port "Samunda". The port was under their
control at the time.
The 16th century saw the arrival of the Portuguese. Joaoda Silveria was
the first Portuguese Captain to reach the port. He arrived with his
ship “LOPO SOANA” in 1517. The Portuguese named the Port PORTE GRANDE
(a great Port ). The records show that the Porte Grande offered easy
access and safe anchorage to ships of 20 feet draught.
It remained a port during Moghul time. Later in early 19th century the
British took control of the Chittagong port.The port of Chittagong
became a natural outlet for the Northeastern regions of the then
British-India that led to the enactment of Port Commissioner’s Act of
1887. At that time the facilities of the port consisted of five wooden
and one pontoon jetties. In the year 1889-90 the port handled exports
totalling 1.25 lac tons
WALI KHAN MOSQUE
Wali Khan Mosque
CHITTAGONG
Wali Khan Mosque (Chittagong) is situated at Chawk Bazar, city centre of
Mughal Chittagong. Wali Beg Khan, a Mughal Faujdar at Chittagong,
built the six-domed masonry mosque in between AD 1713-1716. He also
made a gift of 120 dronas of land in Kadalpur, Nizampur and Sandwip for
the upkeepment of the mosque. Wali Khan founded Chawk Bazar and built
his residence with a kutchery near by. He also dug a big tank near his
residence known as Kamaldaha.
The rectangular double-aisled mosque has four engaged octagonal towers at the outer angles. It has three entrances on the east; the central one, contained within a rectangular fronton, is bigger than the flanking ones. The fronton facing the Chawk added grandeur to the Mughal city.
The interior of the mosque measures 17.68 metres in length and 10.21
metres in breadth. Two robust brick piers along with other supporting
pilasters and arches have divided the prayer chamber into three bays -
each roofed over with two domes. Thus there are six identical hollow
domes, three in a row; each is set on an octagonal drum and crowned
with multi-tired finial. There are three mihrabs in the qibla wall. The
central mihrab has lost all its past embellishment due to drastic
repair and redecoration, but its projection on the back of the qibla
wall is still noticeable.
This massive mosque has lost much of its glory due to extensive later renovations. The north, south and east walls are now hidden behind the veranda extensions and the grand look of the mosque is no longer visible from outside.
PATENGA SEA BEACH
Patenga Sea Beach
Patenga is a sea beach located 14 kilometres south of the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is near the mouth of the Karnaphuli River.
Cloudy weather at Patenga beach
Patenga is a popular tourist spot. The beach is very close to Bangladesh Naval Academy of Bangladesh Navy, and Shah Amanat International Airport. The beach width is narrow and swimming in the seas is not recommended. Part of the seashore is built-up with concrete walls. Also large blocks of stones have been laid out to prevent erosion.
During 1990s a host of restaurants and kiosks have sprouted out around the beach area. Lighting of the beach area has enhanced the security aspect of visiting in the night. People rise up early in the morning to witness the beautiful sunrise.
CHITTAGONG
Patenga is a sea beach located 14 kilometres south of the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is near the mouth of the Karnaphuli River.
Patenga is a popular tourist spot. The beach is very close to Bangladesh Naval Academy of Bangladesh Navy, and Shah Amanat International Airport. The beach width is narrow and swimming in the seas is not recommended. Part of the seashore is built-up with concrete walls. Also large blocks of stones have been laid out to prevent erosion.
Sunset_Patenga Beach
During 1990s a host of restaurants and kiosks have sprouted out around the beach area. Lighting of the beach area has enhanced the security aspect of visiting in the night. People rise up early in the morning to witness the beautiful sunrise.
CHANDANAPURA MASJID
Chandanapur Masjid
Chittagong
The Chandanpura Masjid is a mosque situated in the old part (north) of Chittagong on the road to Kaptai. It is famous landmark in Chittagong and a popular tourist attraction for its impressive architecture consisting of multiple domes and minarets painted in bright colors. Although it was renovated in 1952, the mosque has deteriorated over the years due to environmental factors, such as air pollution.
According to Lonely Planet the mosque has no historical significance.
Chittagong
The Chandanpura Masjid is a mosque situated in the old part (north) of Chittagong on the road to Kaptai. It is famous landmark in Chittagong and a popular tourist attraction for its impressive architecture consisting of multiple domes and minarets painted in bright colors. Although it was renovated in 1952, the mosque has deteriorated over the years due to environmental factors, such as air pollution.
SEA BEACH
Patenga Sea Beach
CHITTAGONG
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| Patanga Sea Beach |
More information : wikipedia
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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| Sunset |
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| Row of speed boat at patanga beach |
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| Sunset at Patenga Beach |
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| Patenga Beach |
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| Patenga Beach Cloudy Weather |
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| Tourist at patenga sea beach |
Monday, December 5, 2011
HERITAGE PARK
Shaheed Zia Memorial Complex and Mini Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG
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| Heritage Park |
The museum includes a rolling restaurant. It's main attraction is the replica of famous and major building of the country such as Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban(parliament building), Jatiyo Sriti Soudho (National Memorial of Savar), Ahsan Manzil, Curzon Hall of Dhaka University, Paharpur Monastery, Kantajew Temple of Dinajpur, Lalbagh Fort and Sona Masjid. The heritage park also has variou rides for children.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
Sunday, December 4, 2011
FOY'S LAKE
Foy's Lake
CHITTAGONG
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| Foy's Lake |
Amusement Park :
Foy's
Lake is a man-made lake which located in Chittagong district. Created
in 1924 by the assam-bengal railway located at Pahartali. It was named
after the engineer Mr. foy. Foy's Lake is near to Batali Hill, Highest
hill of Chittagong metropolition area. This is an amusement park,
directed by the Concord group. Its total area is 320 Acres of land. |
| Foy's lake amusement park |
Category Attraction :
The park consist with a water theme park, resort and an amusement center. This park Offer you theme
park rides and boating on the lake, landscaping, restaurants,
concerts, scenic walking trails and many other attractions. A small zoo
also has been se up in the park. There is an another lake also made by
assam-bengal railway in 1920. Those lakes are tourist spot of chittagong
city.As a popular tourist spot local and foreign tourist visit this site daily . So n doubt that it is a country famous and enjoyable ourist place.
For more information Follow :
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's Lake |
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| Foy's lake Resort |
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| Foy's lake amusement park |
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| Foy's Lake Sea World |
Saturday, December 3, 2011
SHRINE OF BAYAZID BOSTAMI (Rh)
Shrine of Bayazid Bostami (Rh)
Bayazid Bostami was a Well-known Persian saint born in Bostam, Iran. His Tomb and Mosque are located in the Nasirabad of Chittagong. It is a complex consists a tomb a mosque and a big pond. This tomb was built in 1831 on a hill area. The tomb is enclosure of 9.15 m squre wall and 4.58m high with battlement and a pillar rising o.61 m above them at each angle. A sarcophagus was in the centre of the area (3.66m : 2.75m).
There is an old three-domed mosque with Mughal architecture built at mughal period. In the middle of the mosque has a big dome and beside its has a small dome.At the 4 corners has four affianced octagonal Minaret, capped with cupola, furnished with raised bands. The bottom of the Minaret is shaped like a vase.It has three doors the middle one is bigger.
Pond of the Tomb:
In the front side of the shirin, there has a big pond named localy Bayazid Bostami Pukur. In the pond there has well number of Black Soft Shell turtle. The turtles has another name that is Bostami Kachim called locally as Gadali-Madali. The turle are very rare now only found this freshwater turtle in india (assam) and Bangladesh (Chittagong). As of 2002, the IUCN classified the species as Extinct in the Wild.
For more details: About Bayazid Bostami (Rh) and his Shrine
CHITTAGONG
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| Tobm of Bayazid Bostam (Rh) |
Shrine of Bayazid Bostami (Rh):
Bayazid Bostami was a Well-known Persian saint born in Bostam, Iran. His Tomb and Mosque are located in the Nasirabad of Chittagong. It is a complex consists a tomb a mosque and a big pond. This tomb was built in 1831 on a hill area. The tomb is enclosure of 9.15 m squre wall and 4.58m high with battlement and a pillar rising o.61 m above them at each angle. A sarcophagus was in the centre of the area (3.66m : 2.75m).
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| Bayazid Bostami (Rh) Mosque |
Old Mosque of the Shrine:
There is an old three-domed mosque with Mughal architecture built at mughal period. In the middle of the mosque has a big dome and beside its has a small dome.At the 4 corners has four affianced octagonal Minaret, capped with cupola, furnished with raised bands. The bottom of the Minaret is shaped like a vase.It has three doors the middle one is bigger.
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| Bostami Kachim |
In the front side of the shirin, there has a big pond named localy Bayazid Bostami Pukur. In the pond there has well number of Black Soft Shell turtle. The turtles has another name that is Bostami Kachim called locally as Gadali-Madali. The turle are very rare now only found this freshwater turtle in india (assam) and Bangladesh (Chittagong). As of 2002, the IUCN classified the species as Extinct in the Wild.
For more details: About Bayazid Bostami (Rh) and his Shrine
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| Tomb of Bayazid Bostami (Rh) |
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Ethnological Museum
CHITTAGONG
The Ethnological Museum situated in the busy commercial street of Agrabad, Chittagong, and one of the most tourist attractions of chittagong.A unprecedented treasure house of different Type of tribal culture and heritage of Bangladesh. The Museum was established in the first half of 1965. The museum authorities has collected many scarce element used in daily lives of different tribal habitance.
The Ethnological Museum has almost 4 galleries and one small hall. Three galleries of the Ethnological feature various elements of twenty five ethnic groups including Chakma, Hajang, Tongsinga, Khumi, Murang, Sautal, Garo, Marma, Chak, Monipuri, Palia, Tipra, Lusai, Shimuji, and Bom. And the fourth gallery present the lifestyles of few racial groups of Pakistan, India, and Australia.
The sculptures of the people of varity tribal locality and a piece of broken Berlin-Wall Attract the visitors mainly the children who can get impression of miscellaneous festivals, cultures, and livelihoods of the ethnic groups from the mural setup at the hall-room.
These are remindful of the Ethnological Museum in the film 'Planet of the Apes'. People between 200-300 visits the Ethnological Museum daily in addition and a number of researchers from local and foreign country.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
CHITTAGONG COURT BUILDING
Chittagong Court Building
The building has a unique blend of Mughal and British traditions, representing a new Indo-British architecture. The building plan follows a rectangular form running east west with extension on the west and a major north-south extension on the east after which the buildings extends further at a lower level. This permits this section to have three floors. The plan is largely dictated by the topography of the site. The blending of different levels was done with extreme care. Bricks were laid with immense skill, making neat protruded mortar joints.
Court
Building: Situated on the Fairy Hill, this building commands a
magnificent bird's eye view of Chittagong city, particularly
at night. This gigantic Judge Court building was built
immediately after the East India Company conquered and
declared Chittagong as a separate administrative area in 1773. The
building is huge, over 250 thousand square feet and has hundreds
of rooms.
The building has a unique blend of Mughal and British traditions, representing a new Indo-British architecture. The building plan follows a rectangular form running east west with extension on the west and a major north-south extension on the east after which the buildings extends further at a lower level. This permits this section to have three floors. The plan is largely dictated by the topography of the site. The blending of different levels was done with extreme care. Bricks were laid with immense skill, making neat protruded mortar joints.
The
Court Building is of immense historical importance. Legal
proceedings against many renowned persons had been conducted in
this building. These consist of cases against persons revolting
against the British rule and subsequently Pakistani rule. During
the Indian Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, a valiant freedom fighter,
Subedar Rajab Ali was tried here and subsequently hanged at the
Parade Ground. During the Partition of Bengal movement (1905-1912),
Deshpriyo Jatindra Mohan, Kazem Ali and Moulana Islamabadi were
tried amongst others. Revolutionaries of the Chittagong Uprising
(1930-34) Maste rDa Surya Sen, Kalpana Dutta, Ananta Singh,
Purendu Dastider, Binod Bihari, Pulin Ghosh, Tripura Sen,
LoknathBal, Chowdhury, were tried here.
So were Joshoda and Ambika Chakraborti of the Anushilon Party
during the same movement. This movement is the forerunner of
the Quit India movement which culminated to the end of British
Rule in the subcontinent. Both Subash Chandra Bose and his
brother Sarat Bose defended the freedom fighters in this
Building.
During
the Quit India Movement in 1942, numerous national leaders
like Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, G.M. Sayeed, M.A.Jinnah
visited the Court building. Later, during various movements
(1948 1970) including the Language movement (1952) important
national leaders like Shaheed Suhrawardy, Moulana Abdul Hamid
Khan Bhasani, Sk. Mujibur Rahman, and others visited the Court
Building and addressed the Bar. During 1971 freedom fighters
from the Pakistan Rifles took shelter here, which resulted in
the shelling of this Building by the Pakistan army. The first
administration of the newly formed Bangladesh was housed in this Court
Building. Records of court cases of numerous such trials are
preserved in the Building.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
CHITTAGONG PORT
Chittagong Port
Chittagong Port the principal sea port of Bangladesh, is situated in the estuary of the karnafuli River, which originates in the hills north-east of the chittagong hill tracts and flows into the bay of bengal.
The main significance of this port lie in the fact that it provides a
deep-water anchorage a few miles inland from the sea. The steering
distance is 16 kilometres from the outer bar on the Bay of Bengal to the
main berths on the bank of the river Karnafuli.
It is a deepwater seaport dominated by trade
in containerised manufactured products (especially ready made
garments), raw materials and to a lesser extent passengers. It is one
of the two main sea port of Bangladesh - most of the export and import
of the country are handled via this port. Window berthing system was
introduced at the seaport on August 6, 2007, enabling the sea port to
provide the arrival and departure times of all ships. Two berths at the
port terminal are kept in reserve for emergency. In 2006 the port
handled 27 million tonnes of cargo and 0.8 million tonnes of containers
. The port
handled 1.5 million TEUs (twenty equivalent units) containers in
2010-11, up from 12.12 lakh TEUs in the previous year, according to the
CPA Traffic Department.
The
location of the port and its natural harbour made it an
important centre of trade and business as far back as the 9th century
AD when the Arab merchants found it to be a lucrative centre for
trade. By the beginning of the 15th century, the port of
Chittagong was an important trading centre. Chinese chronicler ma huan,
who visited Chittagong in 1405 with a Chinese mission, refers
to "Chit-le-gan" as a port frequented by Chinese trading vessels.
The most frequent visitors to the port were the Arabs.
Chittagong port has been mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, Fa-hien, Hieu-en tsng, lbn Battuta. This was an important port used by the traders from the Middle East, China, Turkey, Europe to trade with this part of the world.
During the 9th century the activities of the port increased tremendously as the Arab traders started using the port as their base port. They used to call the port "Samunda". The port was under their control at the time.
The 16th century saw the arrival of the Portuguese. Joaoda Silveria was the first Portuguese Captain to reach the port. He arrived with his ship “LOPO SOANA” in 1517. The Portuguese named the Port PORTE GRANDE (a great Port ). The records show that the Porte Grande offered easy access and safe anchorage to ships of 20 feet draught.
It remained a port during Moghul time. Later in early 19th century the British took control of the Chittagong port.The port of Chittagong became a natural outlet for the Northeastern regions of the then British-India that led to the enactment of Port Commissioner’s Act of 1887. At that time the facilities of the port consisted of five wooden and one pontoon jetties. In the year 1889-90 the port handled exports totalling 1.25 lac tons
WALI KHAN MOSQUE
Wali Khan Mosque
CHITTAGONG
Wali Khan Mosque (Chittagong) is situated at Chawk Bazar, city centre of Mughal Chittagong. Wali Beg Khan, a Mughal Faujdar at Chittagong, built the six-domed masonry mosque in between AD 1713-1716. He also made a gift of 120 dronas of land in Kadalpur, Nizampur and Sandwip for the upkeepment of the mosque. Wali Khan founded Chawk Bazar and built his residence with a kutchery near by. He also dug a big tank near his residence known as Kamaldaha.
The rectangular double-aisled mosque has four engaged octagonal towers at the outer angles. It has three entrances on the east; the central one, contained within a rectangular fronton, is bigger than the flanking ones. The fronton facing the Chawk added grandeur to the Mughal city.
The interior of the mosque measures 17.68 metres in length and 10.21 metres in breadth. Two robust brick piers along with other supporting pilasters and arches have divided the prayer chamber into three bays - each roofed over with two domes. Thus there are six identical hollow domes, three in a row; each is set on an octagonal drum and crowned with multi-tired finial. There are three mihrabs in the qibla wall. The central mihrab has lost all its past embellishment due to drastic repair and redecoration, but its projection on the back of the qibla wall is still noticeable.
This massive mosque has lost much of its glory due to extensive later renovations. The north, south and east walls are now hidden behind the veranda extensions and the grand look of the mosque is no longer visible from outside.
PATENGA SEA BEACH
Patenga Sea Beach
Patenga is a sea beach located 14 kilometres south of the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is near the mouth of the Karnaphuli River.
Cloudy weather at Patenga beach
Patenga is a popular tourist spot. The beach is very close to Bangladesh Naval Academy of Bangladesh Navy, and Shah Amanat International Airport. The beach width is narrow and swimming in the seas is not recommended. Part of the seashore is built-up with concrete walls. Also large blocks of stones have been laid out to prevent erosion.
During 1990s a host of restaurants and kiosks have sprouted out around the beach area. Lighting of the beach area has enhanced the security aspect of visiting in the night. People rise up early in the morning to witness the beautiful sunrise.
CHITTAGONG
Patenga is a sea beach located 14 kilometres south of the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is near the mouth of the Karnaphuli River.
Patenga is a popular tourist spot. The beach is very close to Bangladesh Naval Academy of Bangladesh Navy, and Shah Amanat International Airport. The beach width is narrow and swimming in the seas is not recommended. Part of the seashore is built-up with concrete walls. Also large blocks of stones have been laid out to prevent erosion.
Sunset_Patenga Beach
During 1990s a host of restaurants and kiosks have sprouted out around the beach area. Lighting of the beach area has enhanced the security aspect of visiting in the night. People rise up early in the morning to witness the beautiful sunrise.
CHANDANAPURA MASJID
Chandanapur Masjid
Chittagong
The Chandanpura Masjid is a mosque situated in the old part (north) of Chittagong on the road to Kaptai. It is famous landmark in Chittagong and a popular tourist attraction for its impressive architecture consisting of multiple domes and minarets painted in bright colors. Although it was renovated in 1952, the mosque has deteriorated over the years due to environmental factors, such as air pollution.
According to Lonely Planet the mosque has no historical significance.
Chittagong
The Chandanpura Masjid is a mosque situated in the old part (north) of Chittagong on the road to Kaptai. It is famous landmark in Chittagong and a popular tourist attraction for its impressive architecture consisting of multiple domes and minarets painted in bright colors. Although it was renovated in 1952, the mosque has deteriorated over the years due to environmental factors, such as air pollution.
JAGANNATH TEMPLE
Comilla Jagannath Temple
COMILLA
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Jagannath
Temple is one of the oldest temple of Comilla district. This Temple
located two km East from Comilla town. Jagannath Temple is a
temple dedicated to the Hindu God Jagannath. This temple introduce us
16th century's temple architecture style,which character is built of
teracotta brick focusing typical bengal style.The deities of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra were initially Placed in a temple in Tripura from that temlpe they were Transferred next time to this temple. This 400 years old temple was made by Sree Sreejoktou Moharaja Rada Kishor Manikuo Bahadur. He was the king of Tripura.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
ANANDA VIHARA
Ananda Vihara
COMILLA
Ananda Vihara situated in the
archaeologically rich Kotbari area near Comilla, largest among the
mainamati monuments with a concen tration of stupasand monasteries all
around . ananda vihara was evidently the center of local
budhist-unevercity of the subconinent. It also has the largest water
tank in the area. This Vihara complex was built by Anandadeva,
the third ruler of the Early deva dynasty,
at the end of the 7th or the beginning of 8th century AD. The
contractors and brick hunters damaged this great establishment
beyond recognition in 1944-45; the builders of the Cantonment did more
damage to it in subsequent years.
The excavations carried out here are incomplete. The work done so far has revealed the outlines of a large shalvan vihara type monastery, 198m square in size. The Vihara has similar rows of monastic cells arranged in four wings around a large cruciform shrine that stands majestically in the centre of a wide open courtyard.
Its imposing single entrance in the middle of the
north side is set in a broad and massive front facade projected
outwards. It is larger and more elaborate than that of Shalvan
Vihara. The massive outer wall is also more pleasing due to
the decorations of offsets and mouldings. The inner verandah
wall is also decorated with mouldings and ornamental bricks. A
few cells in the northern wing and a section of the southern
part of the central shrine have been cleared. They show clear
evidence of intensive occupation of the site for a long time.
Much
work remains to be done yet. But the excavations did not
continue beyond the initial stage. Its large size, earlier discoveries
of a copperplate inscription, a hoard of 63 silver coins, many
bronze images, terracotta sculptured plaques and pottery kilns
outside the monastery indicate the potential importance of the
site.
Monday, October 17, 2011
RUPBAN MURA
Rupban Mura
COMILLA
Rupban Mura an important archaeological site of mainamati at Comilla. This is just beside the BARD at Kotbari, Comilla. Most of the people visit the BARD, but miss this beauty of Rupban Mura. So if you went at BARD, and never visited the Rupban mura, then you are unlucky. This archeological site is just 200 meter apart from the BARD, Kotbari.
Excavations have revealed here the remains of a remarkable semi-cruciform shrine of medium size (28.2m east - west, 28m north - south), together with a number of subsidiary structures, including an octagonal stupa and another one on a square base. A boundary wall within the oblong stupa courtyard encloses all these. Its regular entrance is on the east, facing the monastery entrance. Deep diggings have revealed three main periods of building and repairs and rebuilding, the earliest corresponding to c.6th-7th centuries AD. Very few remains of the latest period (10th-11th century AD) survive now in this very heavily disturbed site.
The Cruciform Shrine Originally built as a solid stupa on a square base, it was subsequently converted into a semi-cruciform shrine in the second period (8th century AD). It has a peculiarity not noticed elsewhere. Instead of a single chapel built in each of the long arm of the cross, a group of three long narrow chapels was built in the eastern (front) side of the shrine.
In the middle chapel the colossal stone Buddha, now exhibited in Mainamati Museum, was discovered. The same peculiarity is noticed in the adjacent Itakhola Mura grand stupa, also on the eastern side facing the entrance. Fragments of bronze images found in other chapels suggest installation of such images there.
The Monastery The small 34.1m square monastery of the site was built separately, 31m. south-east of the cruciform stupa. It has a prominent gateway complex (12.5m x 6.9m) projecting outwards in the middle of the northern wing. Built in the usual square plan, it originally had a total of 24 cells in four wings, subsequently reduced to 18 in the second period. The southern wing, occupying an area of 11.7m, was abandoned, due certainly to irreparable damages, and a row of new cells was built in its front, thus making the shape of the monastery oblong (34.1m x 24.8m). Corbelled niches and brick-built bedsteads can be noticed in the 2nd period cells. A broad corbelled drain was built in the courtyard to drain out rainwater.
Significant discoveries from the site
include, besides the colossal stone Buddha, five debased gold coins of
Balabhatta, the Khadga ruler.
BANGLADESH ACADEMY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (BARD)
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD)
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) an autonomous national institution for training, research and experiment on rural development. Established in 1959 in Comilla, the institution is governed by a Board of Governors with the Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives as its chairman. The director general is the chief executive of the institution. One of the mandatory functions of BARD is to provide training for both officials and non-officials. During 1959-1988, a total of about 1,18,000 participants attended various training courses, visit programmes, workshops and seminars conducted by the Academy. Located at Kotbari, 10 km off Comilla town, BARD has a very entertaining campus of 156 acres of land in natural surroundings.
It has a 63-multi disciplinary faculty under nine divisions. There are five hostels, four conference rooms, and a beautiful mosque, a library with a rich collection of books, a health clinic, sports complex, two cafeterias and a primary school on the academy campus.
The Academy's research is aimed at collection of socio-economic data for the purpose of planning and project preparation. Research findings are used as training materials in the Academy and as information materials by ministries, the planning commission, and policy makers for drawing up development programmes. The Academy is also engaged in evaluating major national rural development programmes either independently or jointly with government agencies, universities and research organisations.
BARD has undertaken experimental projects to evolve models for improved institutions, administrative structures, coordination and methods of production. Project activities have involved villagers, village institutions, local councils, and government officials. Since its inception, the Academy has conducted about 48 experimental projects on various aspects of rural development. In the early 1960s the Academy evolved a new system of rural cooperatives. The small farmers of Comilla sadar thana were organised into primary cooperatives. Great emphasis was given on member training, regular weekly meetings and thrift deposit, as well as adoption of new technologies like high yielding variety of seed, fertiliser, irrigation, etc. Village based primary cooperatives were federated at the thana level and the federation was called Thana Central Cooperative Association. The federation was designed to provide training and credit support to the village level primary cooperatives, and to undertake ventures such as storage, processing, marketing, mechanisation, etc. This two-tier cooperative was found viable and was adopted by the government in 1972 and has been replicated all over the country under the Bangladesh Rural Development Board.
The Thana Training and Development Centre (TTDC) was designed as a model of decentralised and coordinated rural administration for the sake of development. TTDC aims at effective coordination between nation-building departments and organisations of the rural people (local councils, cooperatives, etc). The people and the government are partners of development, and TTDC provides the institutional mechanism to promote this partnership. Replication of TTDC in phases throughout the country was accepted as a programme by the government in 1963, and was gradually replicated in all the thanas. TTDC was used as a base for introducing a decentralised administration system under the thana parishad in 1982. The Academy involved villagers and local councils in the development of physical infrastructures through an experimental project, which later came to be called Rural Works Programme (RWP). In addition to providing flood protection and facilitating communication, the projects generated employment for landless in the lean periods. The success of the programme led to its nationwide replication in 1962-63.
Development of market centres, bridges, culverts, sluice gates, and the construction of TTDC and union parishad buildings have marked the expansion of the scope of RWP in recent years. In Bangladesh, the period from December to March normally remains dry. In the absence of irrigation arrangement no agricultural operation could be taken up during this period in the past even though water remained available in canals, rivers and underground. The simple operation of lifting surface and underground water and channelling it through canals remained unrealised due to lack of technology and appropriate organisation. The Academy's experiment in its laboratory area (Comilla sadar thana) to use surface water through lift pumps and underground water through tubewells with the management of village cooperatives led to a new rice cultivation season (Boro) during this period. As implementation of the experimental programme as well as operation of the irrigation technology required collaborative efforts of cooperators and thana level officers, a new institutional arrangement emerged which became known nationwide as the Thana Irrigation Programme in 1969.
The family planning programme of the government launched in 1965 was more or less based on the results of experiments at Comilla. The institutional infrastructure of cooperative, the administrative infrastructure of TTDC, and the physical infrastructure of the Rural Works Programme and the Thana Irrigation Programme constituted a single united approach to rural development. This approach was an integrated framework, which in its totality can be called the comilla model of rural development. The model was initiated, cradled and brought to replicable maturity by akhter hameed khan, the founder-director of BARD, and his colleagues.
COMILLA
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) an autonomous national institution for training, research and experiment on rural development. Established in 1959 in Comilla, the institution is governed by a Board of Governors with the Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives as its chairman. The director general is the chief executive of the institution. One of the mandatory functions of BARD is to provide training for both officials and non-officials. During 1959-1988, a total of about 1,18,000 participants attended various training courses, visit programmes, workshops and seminars conducted by the Academy. Located at Kotbari, 10 km off Comilla town, BARD has a very entertaining campus of 156 acres of land in natural surroundings.
Access doors
It has a 63-multi disciplinary faculty under nine divisions. There are five hostels, four conference rooms, and a beautiful mosque, a library with a rich collection of books, a health clinic, sports complex, two cafeterias and a primary school on the academy campus.
Corridor of BARD administrative building.
The Academy's research is aimed at collection of socio-economic data for the purpose of planning and project preparation. Research findings are used as training materials in the Academy and as information materials by ministries, the planning commission, and policy makers for drawing up development programmes. The Academy is also engaged in evaluating major national rural development programmes either independently or jointly with government agencies, universities and research organisations.
BARD map
BARD has undertaken experimental projects to evolve models for improved institutions, administrative structures, coordination and methods of production. Project activities have involved villagers, village institutions, local councils, and government officials. Since its inception, the Academy has conducted about 48 experimental projects on various aspects of rural development. In the early 1960s the Academy evolved a new system of rural cooperatives. The small farmers of Comilla sadar thana were organised into primary cooperatives. Great emphasis was given on member training, regular weekly meetings and thrift deposit, as well as adoption of new technologies like high yielding variety of seed, fertiliser, irrigation, etc. Village based primary cooperatives were federated at the thana level and the federation was called Thana Central Cooperative Association. The federation was designed to provide training and credit support to the village level primary cooperatives, and to undertake ventures such as storage, processing, marketing, mechanisation, etc. This two-tier cooperative was found viable and was adopted by the government in 1972 and has been replicated all over the country under the Bangladesh Rural Development Board.
Bansree from BARD
The Thana Training and Development Centre (TTDC) was designed as a model of decentralised and coordinated rural administration for the sake of development. TTDC aims at effective coordination between nation-building departments and organisations of the rural people (local councils, cooperatives, etc). The people and the government are partners of development, and TTDC provides the institutional mechanism to promote this partnership. Replication of TTDC in phases throughout the country was accepted as a programme by the government in 1963, and was gradually replicated in all the thanas. TTDC was used as a base for introducing a decentralised administration system under the thana parishad in 1982. The Academy involved villagers and local councils in the development of physical infrastructures through an experimental project, which later came to be called Rural Works Programme (RWP). In addition to providing flood protection and facilitating communication, the projects generated employment for landless in the lean periods. The success of the programme led to its nationwide replication in 1962-63.
Development of market centres, bridges, culverts, sluice gates, and the construction of TTDC and union parishad buildings have marked the expansion of the scope of RWP in recent years. In Bangladesh, the period from December to March normally remains dry. In the absence of irrigation arrangement no agricultural operation could be taken up during this period in the past even though water remained available in canals, rivers and underground. The simple operation of lifting surface and underground water and channelling it through canals remained unrealised due to lack of technology and appropriate organisation. The Academy's experiment in its laboratory area (Comilla sadar thana) to use surface water through lift pumps and underground water through tubewells with the management of village cooperatives led to a new rice cultivation season (Boro) during this period. As implementation of the experimental programme as well as operation of the irrigation technology required collaborative efforts of cooperators and thana level officers, a new institutional arrangement emerged which became known nationwide as the Thana Irrigation Programme in 1969.
The family planning programme of the government launched in 1965 was more or less based on the results of experiments at Comilla. The institutional infrastructure of cooperative, the administrative infrastructure of TTDC, and the physical infrastructure of the Rural Works Programme and the Thana Irrigation Programme constituted a single united approach to rural development. This approach was an integrated framework, which in its totality can be called the comilla model of rural development. The model was initiated, cradled and brought to replicable maturity by akhter hameed khan, the founder-director of BARD, and his colleagues.
COMILLA ZILLA SCHOOL
Comilla Zilla School
COMILLA
This is a boy's school. Initially the school conducted only one shift. From 1991 two shifts were introduced: morning and day. Presently all the classes from 5 to 10 are running. There are six sections in each of the classes-‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ for class five to eight where ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are in morning shift and day shift. There are Two sectionsin nine & ten,they are "A"and "B" And 60 students in each of the sections according to the present system. For class nine and ten students are distributed into four sections following the same structure with a larger number of students in a class. Almost 1400 students are studying in the school with 53 teachers.
The uniform is white shirt with white full trousers and white shoes. The school monogram is be printed on the shirt pocket.
Usually students are admitted in class 5 and 6. Admission can be considered in other classes if a vacancy is available or if someone is transferred from some other government school. The admission test is usually taken in the first week of January.
COMILLA VICTORIA COLLEGE
Comilla Victoria College
Comilla Victoria College founded by Roy Bahadur Ananda Chandra Roy in 1899 and named after Queen Victoria. Mr. Satyandra Nath Basu was its first principal. Until 1947, the college was affiliated to Calcutta University. Between 1925 and 1947 it offered three-year honours programmes in English, Mathematics, Sanskrit, Politics, Economics and Arabic. The college introduced Bachelor of Science courses in 1942 and Bachelor of Commerce courses in 1956. Honours courses in Political Science, Physics, Chemistry, Accounting and Management were introduced in 1971-72. Masters Programme in Bangla and Economics started in 1973.
At present, the college has 11,000 students and 125 teachers, of whom 20 are women. It has five dormitories - four for boys and one for girls. About one thousand students reside in these dormitories.
In 1962-63, the degree section of the college was shifted to its new campus at Dharmapur, which is three kilometers away from the old campus at Ranir Dighi. The old campus now houses the offices of the principal and vice-principal, teachers' room, principal's residence, gymnasium, auditorium, library, and science laboratories. The new campus has four new buildings and these are used for academic activities. The college was nationalised in 1968. In 1984-85, it became a postgraduate college. In 1996, the college had honours courses in 16 subjects.
Comilla Victoria College has produced a large number of scholars, teachers, civil servants, physicians, engineers, politicians and social activists. Many students and teachers of the college took part in the war of liberation. Students of this college now take part in Rover Scouting and Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) activities. They also take part in inter-college tournaments and competitions.
COMILLA
Comilla Victoria College founded by Roy Bahadur Ananda Chandra Roy in 1899 and named after Queen Victoria. Mr. Satyandra Nath Basu was its first principal. Until 1947, the college was affiliated to Calcutta University. Between 1925 and 1947 it offered three-year honours programmes in English, Mathematics, Sanskrit, Politics, Economics and Arabic. The college introduced Bachelor of Science courses in 1942 and Bachelor of Commerce courses in 1956. Honours courses in Political Science, Physics, Chemistry, Accounting and Management were introduced in 1971-72. Masters Programme in Bangla and Economics started in 1973.
At present, the college has 11,000 students and 125 teachers, of whom 20 are women. It has five dormitories - four for boys and one for girls. About one thousand students reside in these dormitories.
In 1962-63, the degree section of the college was shifted to its new campus at Dharmapur, which is three kilometers away from the old campus at Ranir Dighi. The old campus now houses the offices of the principal and vice-principal, teachers' room, principal's residence, gymnasium, auditorium, library, and science laboratories. The new campus has four new buildings and these are used for academic activities. The college was nationalised in 1968. In 1984-85, it became a postgraduate college. In 1996, the college had honours courses in 16 subjects.
Comilla Victoria College has produced a large number of scholars, teachers, civil servants, physicians, engineers, politicians and social activists. Many students and teachers of the college took part in the war of liberation. Students of this college now take part in Rover Scouting and Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) activities. They also take part in inter-college tournaments and competitions.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
ITAKHOLA MURA, MAINAMATI
Itakhola Mura, Mainamati
COMILLA
Most of the people used to visit Comilla for
the Shalban bihara, and never looked at a marvelous archeological site
called "Itakhula Mura". It can be pronounced as "Etakhula Mura or
Muda".
Locally the site is known as Itakhula Mura. Itakhola Mura an archaeological site in mainamati. The site, like that of the kutila mura, is one of the most impressive ruins. It lies in three terraces on adjacent hillocks just opposite the rupban mura
site across the Kotbari road, Comilla. It served for a long
time as a quarry for ancient bricks, hence the name. Excavations
have revealed here a grand stupa complex with an attached
monastery, located 42m to its north. The cultural phases of the
site are stated (or overstated) to be five; the earlier three
being still buried underneath the later remains.
The Stupa Complex was originally built as a solid stupa in the traditional style on a 13.1m square basement. However, it has one peculiarity; a small sanctum (2.4m x 2.1m) built in the centre of its eastern or front side.
Here a damaged life-size stucco image of Aksobhya
was found in situ. This part of the monument was fairly well
preserved, but unfortunately, its jungle-covered top was sliced
off by the military a few decades back to build a rest house
here.
Subsequently, the shrine was enlarged and
elaborated by additions and alterations, especially by adding
three long narrow chapels in the eastern side after blocking
the old sanctum; thus giving the structure an oblong shape
(41.4m x 24m). In this particular feature, it is strikingly
similar to the Rupban Mura shrine. The side chapels were ultimately
blocked up, leaving space for a few cubicles for installing
cult images, as in other parts of the shrine. This
establishment is surrounded by a 2.6m wide circumambulatory
passage and is enclosed by a 1.2m thick boundary wall.
This holy precinct is again enclosed within a
much larger, well-defined, and better preserved boundary wall (79 m x
56 m), in the slightly lower second terrace. It contains three
interesting subsidiary shrines, two in two corners of the eastern side,
and the other, a slightly larger one, at the back in the west. An
elaborate entrance with 22 broad steps at the centre of the eastern side
leads to the much lower third terrace. The outer face of its damaged
boundary wall in this front side is excellently decorated with offsets,
sunken panels, and ornamental designs.
Five votive stupas lie at the base of the
long staircase, three of them in a northsouth row within a well-defined
enclosure, all semi-cruciform in shape, like that of the larger
subsidiary shrines in the western side of the second terrace. They
certainly represent an experimental early stage in the development of
the cruciform style in Buddhist architecture that we see in mature form
at shalvan vihara, paharpur, Vikramashila and many other sites. These structures may reasonably be dated as belonging to 7th-8th centuries AD.
The Monastery This medium
sized monastery of the usual square shape with 19 cells and one
entrance hall was built around an open courtyard, 16.2m. square, on a
separate mound. Its monumental gateway complex, 17.6m x 8.5m, projecting
outwards, lies at the centre of the eastern wing. Some of the cells
have brick-built bedsteads. This structure was badly damaged by
brick-hunters in 1944-45.
Mentionable antiquities from the site, besides the stucco image, are three round pellets of solid gold, (19 tolas),
and a copperplate inscription, discovered during clearance
work after the excavations. The copperplate has not yet been
deciphered.
Friday, October 14, 2011
MAINAMATI MUSEUM
Mainamati Museum
COMILLA
Beside the Shalban Bihara, you'll find a museum affluent with collection from the excavation of the Archeological sites.The Mainamati site Museum has a rich and varied collection of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 86 bronze objects. Over 150 bronze statues havo been recovered mostly from the monastic cells, bronze stupas, stone sculptures and hundreds of terracotta plaques each measuring on an average of 9" higli and 8" to 12" wide. Like other museum, you are not allowed to use any Camera inside. You have to buy a ticket to enter the Museum. Each person will cost 10 taka.
COMILLA
Beside the Shalban Bihara, you'll find a museum affluent with collection from the excavation of the Archeological sites.The Mainamati site Museum has a rich and varied collection of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 86 bronze objects. Over 150 bronze statues havo been recovered mostly from the monastic cells, bronze stupas, stone sculptures and hundreds of terracotta plaques each measuring on an average of 9" higli and 8" to 12" wide. Like other museum, you are not allowed to use any Camera inside. You have to buy a ticket to enter the Museum. Each person will cost 10 taka.
SHALVAN VIHARA, MAINAMATI
Shalvan Vihara
How can i reach there?
getting down from the bus at Comilla Cantonment. From there take a CNG you can reach at Shalban Bihar.
To enter the shalban bihar, you'll require to buy ticket. It will cost you 10 taka per person. You can enjoy your time until the time is up. Its a picnic spot, and lots of students from different schools are coming this place as study tour.
Shalban Vihara
This site previously was known as Salban Rajar bari. But after excavation ground plan of a Buddhist monastery measuring 550'x500' with 115 monastic cells was exposed. Hence it is now popularly known as salban vihara.
Shalvan Vihara a tourist centre noted for antiquity. Salvan Vihara is among the most important excavated sites in mainamati. It lies about the middle of the Lalmai ridge in the vicinity of the present day bangladesh academy for rural development at Kotbari near Comilla. Excavations have exposed a large paharpur type Buddhist monastery and other material objects datable from the 7th to 12th centuries AD. Formally arranged in four wings around a central shrine, this 167.6m square monastery contains a total of 155 cells.
Its single entrance in the middle of the north wing is set in a grand 22.6m wide front facade with guardrooms projected outwards. All the walls of the monastery are solid and massive, the back wall being the most massive, 5m thick. This feature, together with the forbidding character of the single gateway with its guardrooms, and the dreary look of the massive outer wall, must have given it the appearance and utility of a citadel necessitated by the increasing wealth of these establishments and the insecurity of the period.
Deep diggings in the monastery have revealed four repair and rebuilding phases, the earliest corresponding to Period III of the central shrine (7th-8th century AD). No monastery remains corresponding to Periods II and I have yet been found.
During the next two phases, that is to say, Periods IV and V (9th to 10th century AD), new floors and thresholds were built on top of earlier remains. Fireplace and ornamental brick pedestals, two interesting features noticed inside the cells, were added later during these phases. They do not belong to the original plan. They, evidently, relate to individual cooking and cult worship inside the cells by a few resident monks. There was, of course, a community kitchen and a great shrine in the establishment for all monks. Other interesting features noticed are a few flight of steps in the courtyard, grand staircases in the corner rooms, chapels in the central cells, and three corbelled niches in each cell for keeping votive images, lamps, and reading and writing materials.
The Central Shrine The central shrine at
Shalvan Vihara consists not of one but six different structures
built successively on the same spot in different periods and
on different plans. They provide interesting evidence of the
evolution and gradual transformation of traditional Buddhist stupa architecture
into that of the Hindu temple. The remains of the first two
periods are hidden below the Period III cruciform shrine built with
the monastery as a single complex.
COMILLA
How can i reach there?
getting down from the bus at Comilla Cantonment. From there take a CNG you can reach at Shalban Bihar.
To enter the shalban bihar, you'll require to buy ticket. It will cost you 10 taka per person. You can enjoy your time until the time is up. Its a picnic spot, and lots of students from different schools are coming this place as study tour.
Shalban Vihara
This site previously was known as Salban Rajar bari. But after excavation ground plan of a Buddhist monastery measuring 550'x500' with 115 monastic cells was exposed. Hence it is now popularly known as salban vihara.
Shalvan Vihara a tourist centre noted for antiquity. Salvan Vihara is among the most important excavated sites in mainamati. It lies about the middle of the Lalmai ridge in the vicinity of the present day bangladesh academy for rural development at Kotbari near Comilla. Excavations have exposed a large paharpur type Buddhist monastery and other material objects datable from the 7th to 12th centuries AD. Formally arranged in four wings around a central shrine, this 167.6m square monastery contains a total of 155 cells.
Its single entrance in the middle of the north wing is set in a grand 22.6m wide front facade with guardrooms projected outwards. All the walls of the monastery are solid and massive, the back wall being the most massive, 5m thick. This feature, together with the forbidding character of the single gateway with its guardrooms, and the dreary look of the massive outer wall, must have given it the appearance and utility of a citadel necessitated by the increasing wealth of these establishments and the insecurity of the period.
Deep diggings in the monastery have revealed four repair and rebuilding phases, the earliest corresponding to Period III of the central shrine (7th-8th century AD). No monastery remains corresponding to Periods II and I have yet been found.
During the next two phases, that is to say, Periods IV and V (9th to 10th century AD), new floors and thresholds were built on top of earlier remains. Fireplace and ornamental brick pedestals, two interesting features noticed inside the cells, were added later during these phases. They do not belong to the original plan. They, evidently, relate to individual cooking and cult worship inside the cells by a few resident monks. There was, of course, a community kitchen and a great shrine in the establishment for all monks. Other interesting features noticed are a few flight of steps in the courtyard, grand staircases in the corner rooms, chapels in the central cells, and three corbelled niches in each cell for keeping votive images, lamps, and reading and writing materials.
Salvan Vihara, Ground Plan
The Cruciform Shrine It is
an exceedingly interesting piece of architecture resembling in ground
plan a Greek cross, 51.8m long, with chapels built in the projecting
arms. Its basement walls are embellished with a stringcourse of
delightfully sculptured terracotta plaques set within parallel bands of
ornamental bricks. This shrine bears a striking resemblance with that
of Paharpur and represents a fully developed and finished example of
the 7th-8th century Buddhist temple architecture of Bengal. Since the
Mainamati monuments are unquestionably earlier in date by about a
century, and as there are a number of early and intermediary stages of
development in this evolutionary process clearly traceable in Mainamati,
it is reasonable to assume that Mainamati supplied prototypes of
cruciform shrines not only for Paharpur and Vikramashila in eastern
India but also for subsequent developments in Burma, Indonesia and
Indochina.
The Subsidiary Structures
Excavations have also exposed here a number of subsidiary structures
including a community dining establishment, smaller oblong, pillared and
square shrines, votive stupas with excellently moulded plinth
and base, and a variety of other buildings both inside and outside the
monastic quadrangle. The interesting medium-sized outer shrine looks
more like a classical peristyle temple representing an individual style
not hitherto observed in any other site.
Other Discoveries Important
discoveries from this site include eight copperplate inscriptions,
about 400 gold and silver coins, many terracotta and baked clay seals
and sealings, and a large number of sculptures in stone, bronze and
terracotta found in situ or otherwise.
This
grand monastery together with the cruciform central shrine was
built by Shri Bhavadeva, the fourth ruler of the Early deva dynasty of devaparvata, some time in the end of the 7th or beginning of the 8th century AD.
KUTILA MURA, OR KOTILA MURA
Kuila Mura kotila Mura
COMILLA
COMILLA
Kutila Mura site is located about three miles north of Shalban Vihara (location).
In 1956 continuous excavations here for few seasons have completely
exposed an interesting stupa-complex. The whole area is enclosed by a
massive wall decorated with lower-level panels. On top of the mound,
within the enclosure, three stupas are found side by side on a common
plinth. These stupas are surrounded by other stupas and structures
spread over an area, measuring about 280 feet from north to south and
about 225 feet from east to west. The main stupas are approached from
the east by a wide staircase that ascends in three stages across the
massive boundary wall and leads to three rectangular entrance hall.
The
square bases support circular drums and hemispherical domes. The
central stupa is still 10 feet high from the plinth. The three stupas
possibly represent the Buddhist trinity or the three jewels, i.e.
- The Buddha,
- The Dharma and
- The Shangha
It
is from a unique group of monuments rarely met elsewhere in the
subcontinent. The ground plan of the central stupa is in the shape of a
dharma chakra or the wheel of the law. The hub is represented by a deep
central shaft and the spokes by brick wall which have formed eight cells
or box chamber. For these cells a number of broken pieces of stone
sculpture in the soft grey stone have been salvaged. These depict, in
high relief, figures of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas seated on lotus
throne and attended by lay worshipers. Hundreds of miniature clay votive
stupas containing minute terracotta seals, inscribed with the Buddhist
creed, have also been found in the cells and inside the central shaft.
The other two stupas, representing the Buddha and the Sangha are made of
solid brick masonry, each with a deep central shaft which also
contained a large number of clay miniature stupas and terracotta
sealing. The outer face of the drums of these stupas is relieved with a
number of small corbelled niches, intended perhaps, as receptacles for
oil lamps. On the west of the Tri-Ratna stupas, remains of nine brick
stupas have been exposed.It should to be noted that the temple of kutila
Mura show three distinct phases of repairs and rebuilding. the three
oblong halls in front of the stupas were also extended in the second
period. There is also an antechamber at the back of southern most halls
which indicate that hall also served the purpose of temple and images of
buddha or bodhisattvas ere once installed therein for worship. Remain
of the period of the shrines are visible only in the oblong hall in
front of he middle stupa and in the estern boundary wall.
A
number of fire places could not be explained satisfactorily. Perhaps
those were built later for cocking food for large gahering. from the
remains of different periods we may conclude that the temple at Kutila
Mura was in active use for long period, beginning from seventh century
to at least thirteenth century A.D. the Mainamati excavation have thrown
a flood of light on he history of south-east bengalfrom 7th to 13th
centuries. The antiquities unearthed so far from kutila Muraare not only
large in number but also include of important object like a gold coin
of Abbasian khalifa, terracotta objectes, sculpture etc. Which have
greatly helped us to reconstruct the history of the area
Finally,
we may recommended that all various objects of art and articles of
daily use discovered from the Kutila Mura at Mainamati sites have also
provided us with the material evidences of the contemporary people's
socio economic and cultural condition of the region.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
GOMOTI RIVER AT COMILLA
Gomoti River at Comilla
Gomoti river at Comilla
Gomti River coming from Domur in the
north eastern hilly region of Tripora state of India. From its source
it flows about 155 km along a meandering course through the hills, turns
west and enters Bangladesh near Catak Bazar (Comilla Sadar). Then it
takes a meandering course again and passes through the north side of
Comilla town and east of mainamati.
On the north Burichang upazila, it cuts through Debidwar upazila and
reaches Companiganj Bazar. The distance from Companiganj Bazar to
Mainamati is about 63 km. From Companiganj it turns west and finally
falls into the meghna at
Shapta in Daudkandi upazila. The segment between Daudkandi and
Companiganj is about 51 km long. The Gomti is about 137 km long within
Bangladesh. The dakatia is one of the important tributaries of the Gomti and the Buri river is its distributary.
16th century bridge over river Gomti in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
The
Gumti is a hilly river having a strong current. Its flow varies from
150 to 25,000 cusec at Comilla. During the rains its average breadth is
about 150m, it is full from bank to bank and the current is rapid. But
during the winter it shrinks and becomes fordable at most places. In a
year of normaly rainfall the river rises to above 1.7m than the level
of the surrounding areas. Flash floods are common phenomena of this
river and it occurs at regular intervals. Previously it was known as
the 'sorrow of Comilla town'.
The bangladesh (BWDB) has taken several measures to tame the river and save Comilla main town. Attempts have been made to construct flood embankments
and 20 loop-cuts have been made to straighter the river. Despite these
measures, several times Comilla town had been seriously menaced by
floods. However, after the implementation of a number of BWDB projects,
the Gomti appears now to be under control.
bridge over Gomti river, Jaunpur.
The river is not navigable by large boats. Some important places on its banks are Comilla, Mainamati, Companiganj Burichang, Muradnagar and Daudkandi. The Gomti is influenced by tides up to Daudkandi, but upstream it is free from tidal effects.
TEKNAF
Teknaf
COX'S BAZAR
Teknaf Ghat
Teknaf map
Teknaf is a sub-district of Cox's Bazar district. Most southern tip point of Bangladesh and an old-world border town. Teknaf located on the Naaf river and just at the tip of the hilly area of Cox's Bazar. By road Its about 90 km from Cox's Bazar. For geographically it is most lovely place for the locall and foreign traveler. Winter and Auumn is the best time for visit this place. Here naaf river is the border line between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
ATTRACCTION:
The most enjoyable thing is a journey on the Naaf river. As a natural beautiful place wild animals and birds are available. You can buy Burmese & tribal handicaft in the local Burmese Market. Cruise by sampan(boat) is one of ihe main attraction of teknaf. In Teknaf have an opportunity to ovserve the culture of Arkan and Rakhain people. An attractiv tourist place is Teknaf sea beach, one of the longest sandy beach ecosystems (eighty km) in the world. There also a beautiful beach at shah-pari dweep. And it is located furthest from Teknaf sub-district.
Teknaf Beach
How to reach:
You can come to Teknaf by an jeep drive beside the beach or by bus or Microbus on the road.
Naaf River
Teknaf hill view
Teknaf Beach - Sampan (one kind of boat)
(Teknaf, Teknaf beach, Teknaf subdistrict, Teknaf Upozela)
Friday, November 25, 2011
RUBBER GARDEN
Ramu Rubber Garden
COX'S BAZAR
Ramu is also well-known for it's Rubber garden and attractive spots for the visitor. This garden is located about One km. north of chowmuhuny of Ramu. The Rubber Garden is familiar for its hugeness.The garden is largest supplier of rubber in the country. Almost 2130 acres of land is used for cultivate Rubber.
This garden is started at 1961 planting about 52800 plants on 330 acre of area but now there has about 140000 plant on 2130 acre of sands. The calmness of the garden and the sweet chirping of mysterious birds allow you to enter in a heavenly atmosphere. Different sized hill and huge greenery magnetize you without any question. The place is really lovely. If you want to see how they make rubber from the tree you should must visite this rabber garden.
This garden is started at 1961 planting about 52800 plants on 330 acre of area but now there has about 140000 plant on 2130 acre of sands. The calmness of the garden and the sweet chirping of mysterious birds allow you to enter in a heavenly atmosphere. Different sized hill and huge greenery magnetize you without any question. The place is really lovely. If you want to see how they make rubber from the tree you should must visite this rabber garden.
COCONUT GARDEN
Ramu Coconut Garden
COX'S BAZAR
Ramu is famous for its large coconut garden, which is located at the 3-4 Km far away from Ramu Sub-district. without any doubt it is the largest coconut garden in Bangladesh. Not only that Ramu has the largest coconut garden among the south Asia. It is also the largest Coconut Seed Garden in Bangladesh. When the garden was made then only 34 coconut tree were the garden. But now it put up with about one million Coconut tree. The coconut garden of Ramu made upon two hundred acres land. It is a asset of Bangladesh Government and maintained by Food Crops Wing of Department of Agricultural Extension under Agriculture Ministry.
How to reach: Ramu
Thursday, November 24, 2011
BUDDHIST TEMPLE(Lama Para Bihar)
Lama Para Bihar
COX'S BAZAR
A photo of Lamarpara Buddhist temple.
‘Lama Para Bihar’ is another Bihar few minutes walking difference from Ramu Shima Buddhist Bihar. King of Arakan name Ali Khan (1580-1665) ordered to make it when he was put into administration on Chittagong. The majjor atractions of this Lama Para Buddhist Bihar is its metal ring bell. There are few writing in this Bell, Yet no one could read it. Whatever the two ring bell are ancient and beautiful.
Lamar para buddhist temples metal ring bells picture
BUDDHIST TEMPLE (Shima Bihar)
Shima Buddhist Bihar
COX'S BAZAR
This is a photo of Shima Bihar temple's
Ramu Shima Buddhist Bihar is situated at Fateh Khan Kuli Union in Ramu. The Shima Buddhist Bihar was built about four hundred years ago. After 3 times reconstruction , present Shima Bihar has changed its location.
Present Bihar’s age is about two hundred years. The Bihar was made by traditional Burmese wood frame shape. There are two Bihar, Shima Bihar is the big one. Buddha Statues in this Bihar are so pleasant.
In the Bhiar also a so much wealthy library in which the script is written in Burmese language. There has many books such as Buddhist religious book, history, literature and philosophy.
This is a Ven Upagupta's Photo of Ramu Shima Bihar.
A photo of Ramu Shima bihar buddha murti.
This is a Buddhah murti of new Shima Bihar.
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar
COX'S BAZAR
The most visited tourist spot of Ramu
is its Buddhist Temple. It's name is "Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar".
There are a number of statues of Gautam Buddha in the Buddhist temple.
There Has varity sized and various colored statues of Buddha. From
them white colored statue is most lovely. Daily a large number of
Buddhists visit this bihar(Temple) for praying.
Daily a large number of visitor visit
Cox’s Bazar Sea Beach and its other tourist area. But very few of them
visit Ramu! Because the name is not well-informed to all the tourist.
But Ramu has the ability to attract the tourist. The ‘Rankut Bonasram
Buddha Bihar’ is a historical and ancient structure. The Rankut
Bonasram Buddha Bihar was built in 308 BC (Before Christ). I recommend
you to go Ramu to see this ancient Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar. There
are some other Pagoda also. So don’t miss to visit Ramu when you
visiting Cox’s Bazar.
NOTE: Ramu is only about 16 km from Cox’s Bazar.
RAMU
Ramu
There has many places to visit in Cox's Bazar Ramu is one of them. It is an Upazela of Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Also Ramu Is one of the major tourist spot in Bangladesh. It is a familiar Buddhist village, Ramu 16 km from Cox’s Bazar. Here you will find Buddhist Monasteries, Khayangs and pagodas etc. In Ramu, you will find plenty of statues made by various metals. Ramu has the largest coconut garden among south Asia. Also Has a Rubber Garden almost 2130 acres of land.
The most visited tourist spot of Ramu is its Buddhist’s Temple near Baakkhali River on Tiger Canal name Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar
Shima Bihar Situated at Fateh Khan Kuli Union in Ramu. The original Bihar age is about four hundred years. reconstruction after 3 times, present Bihar has changed its location. Now it’s age is about 2hundred years.
Another Bihar named ‘Lama Para Bihar’ situated few minutes walking difference from Sheema Bihar.
Not only leargest coconut gearden in bangladesh but also among the south asia.
Rubber Garden :
At Ramu: This Rubber Garden is famous for its hugeness. For cultivate Rubber almost 2130 acres of land is used.
Cox's Bazar
Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar
There has many places to visit in Cox's Bazar Ramu is one of them. It is an Upazela of Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Also Ramu Is one of the major tourist spot in Bangladesh. It is a familiar Buddhist village, Ramu 16 km from Cox’s Bazar. Here you will find Buddhist Monasteries, Khayangs and pagodas etc. In Ramu, you will find plenty of statues made by various metals. Ramu has the largest coconut garden among south Asia. Also Has a Rubber Garden almost 2130 acres of land.
Tourist spot at Ramu:
The most visited tourist spot of Ramu is its Buddhist’s Temple near Baakkhali River on Tiger Canal name Rankut Bonasram Buddha Bihar
Shima Bihar Situated at Fateh Khan Kuli Union in Ramu. The original Bihar age is about four hundred years. reconstruction after 3 times, present Bihar has changed its location. Now it’s age is about 2hundred years.
Another Bihar named ‘Lama Para Bihar’ situated few minutes walking difference from Sheema Bihar.
Not only leargest coconut gearden in bangladesh but also among the south asia.
Rubber Garden :
At Ramu: This Rubber Garden is famous for its hugeness. For cultivate Rubber almost 2130 acres of land is used.
Friday, November 18, 2011
BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT MAHESKHALI ISLAND
Buddhist temple at Maheskhali island
COX'S BAZAR
One of the greatest attraction of Maheskhali is the famous 400 years old Buddhist temple in Rakhaninpara .Location of the Buddist Temple is Boro Rakhain para, Goroghata, Maheshkhali. The Buddhist Temple is located in Boro Rakhain Para, Gorokghata, Maheskhali.There are several buildings inside the monastery premises.There has two pagodas are made from Bronze.Both of them are same in structure. There are total 8 roofs potecting the temple.Daily lots of visitor visit this Temple. This Temple is also used for prayer for the Buddhist habitant of the raikhain tribe too.
ADINATH TEMPLE AT COX'S BAZAR
Adinath Temple
COX'S BAZAR
Adinath Temple is an ancient shiva Temple. Situated on the top of the Mainak Hill on Moheshkhali Island. A Landowner named Nur Mohammad Shikdar donated two hundread acres of land to reconstruct the age-old Adinath Temple. The temple is famous for the annual fair. At the foot of the Mainak Hill, which is held in the month of Phalgun as per the Bengali Calendar, especially during Krishnapakkha. This fair is 13 days away, facing towards the vast sea. thousands of Hindus came here from all over Bangladesh.
Inside Adinath Temple
Thursday, November 17, 2011
SONADIA ISLAND AT COX'S BAZAR
Sonadia Island
COX'S BAZAR
Sonadia Island is about 7 km north-west of Cox's Bazar. It is very rich for different kinds of shells. The island is sandy and varity kinds of shells are found on the beach of The western part. And the northern part of the island, there are beds of window pane oysters. Sonadia Island is famous for the industry of dry fish. Fisherman set up temporary camps on the island and Dries Sea fishes during winter season, which they catch from Sea.
Fishermen untangling a net
A child tends to dried fish on Sonadia island
MOHESHKHALI ISLAND AT COX'S BAZAR
Moheshkhali Island
Moheshkhali is a beautiful island in the Bay of Bengal in the north-western side of Cox’s Bazar. The island is Surrounded with forested hills and some mangrove trees alongside the coastal beach. It's total area is 262 squre kilometers. Through the center of the island and along the eastern coastline rises, a range of low hills, but the coast to the north and west is a low-lying treat, Surrounded by mangrove jungle. There are a Buddhist temple and a shrine of Adinath on the hill. You will find here hilly areas,mangrove forests, salt field etcetera.
You can go easily to
Moheshkhali from Cox's Bazar. You need to take a Rickshaw from cox's
Bazar go to Ghat no 6, From 6no. Ghat you can go to this Island by
local motorboat or by speedboat. It takes 1 hour by trawler and 1/2 hour
by speedboat.
Moheshkhali island is famous for Buddhist Temple and the ancient Adinath Temple. You can enjoy a full day here if you Settle up to visit Sonadia and some other Islands. In the morning you can your journey for Moheskhali, spend time to visit the places, take lunch there and on return you can visit Sonadia and other nearby Islands. where you can sea the fishing & lifestyle of fishermen. By the afternoon you can come back to Cox's Bazaar.
Moheshkhali is a wonderful place for visit. Many tourist come visit Moheshkhali every year.
COX'S BAZAR
Moheshkhali is a beautiful island in the Bay of Bengal in the north-western side of Cox’s Bazar. The island is Surrounded with forested hills and some mangrove trees alongside the coastal beach. It's total area is 262 squre kilometers. Through the center of the island and along the eastern coastline rises, a range of low hills, but the coast to the north and west is a low-lying treat, Surrounded by mangrove jungle. There are a Buddhist temple and a shrine of Adinath on the hill. You will find here hilly areas,mangrove forests, salt field etcetera.
Buddist Temple
Adinath Temple
Moheshkhali island is famous for Buddhist Temple and the ancient Adinath Temple. You can enjoy a full day here if you Settle up to visit Sonadia and some other Islands. In the morning you can your journey for Moheskhali, spend time to visit the places, take lunch there and on return you can visit Sonadia and other nearby Islands. where you can sea the fishing & lifestyle of fishermen. By the afternoon you can come back to Cox's Bazaar.
Moheshkhali is a wonderful place for visit. Many tourist come visit Moheshkhali every year.
Jetty Ghat, Moheshkhali
Moheshkhali Channel
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
HIMCHARI NATIONAL PARK (Evergreen and semi-ever-green tropical forests)
Himchari national park
COX'S BAZAR
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| Himchari national park |
Himchari national park
Himchari
national park is a beautiful tropical rain forest around the South
Asia. It formed the reserve forest areas of Bhangamura and Chainda
blocks under the Cox’s Bazaar South Forest Division. this is Located
about twielve km south from Cox’s bazar. The park was established in
1980. This place is managed by the Bangladesh government for the local
and the foreign tourist. The Park is also attractive for the biologist.  |
| Himchari national park : Sea view |
The park divided into high forest, low forest & grasslands. Evergreen and semi-ever-green tropical forests.
Plant:
Around 58 species of trees, 15 species of shrubs, 4 species grasses, 19 climbers and 21 species of herbs altogether 117 plant species are available here.
Animal: There are 55 species of mammals, 286 species of aves, 56 species of reptiles and 13 species of amphibians are found in this evergreen forest. Here also some number of elephants.
Scenery
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| Himchari national park |
Visiting fee: 5tk only
visitor: More then 2,00,000 per year
RADAR STATION AT COX'S BAZAR
RADAR Station
COX'S BAZAR
Bangladesh is visited by natural disasters every year. That's why Bangladesh is called the land of natural calamitics. The conmmon natural disaster in our country are floods, stroms, cyclones, drought and famine and in pre- and post-monsoon season. natural calamities cannot be prevented. Timely forecast frpm RADAR station could minimize damage of naural disester. In coxs bazar newly built radar station. Constructed by Japanthe station under overseas development agreement. Cox's Bazar RADAR Station discover bangladesh sea beach tourism.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
HIMCHARI WATERFALL
Himchari Waterfall
There are Many places to visit for the tourists in Cox’s Bazar. One of them is Himchari. Himchari is famous for warm water waterfall.The wanderfill waterfall of Himchari is a very attractive scene.
The waterfall from the green hill is relatively marvelous to look at. Whatever, in the winter it Quails. In the rainy season it is really marvelous and full waterfall could be enjoyed.
The place is best for picnic,photo shooting, relaxing and sunbathing. Here you get beautiful hilltop resort centre where you can stay for relaxing and can enjoy the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
This place is about 18 km south from Cox’s Bazar town. Anyone can use Auto Rickshaw or rickshaw Chander Gari to go there. It's Marine Drive roadway is a enjoyable roadway for the tourists.
COX'S BAZAR
There are Many places to visit for the tourists in Cox’s Bazar. One of them is Himchari. Himchari is famous for warm water waterfall.The wanderfill waterfall of Himchari is a very attractive scene.
The waterfall from the green hill is relatively marvelous to look at. Whatever, in the winter it Quails. In the rainy season it is really marvelous and full waterfall could be enjoyed.
The place is best for picnic,photo shooting, relaxing and sunbathing. Here you get beautiful hilltop resort centre where you can stay for relaxing and can enjoy the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
This place is about 18 km south from Cox’s Bazar town. Anyone can use Auto Rickshaw or rickshaw Chander Gari to go there. It's Marine Drive roadway is a enjoyable roadway for the tourists.
HIMCHARI
Himchari
COX'SBAZAR
Himchari is one of the most attractive places for the visitors. Journey to Himchari is also exciting because the road to Himchari runs by the lovely green hills on one side and open blue sea on the other side. The scenery of the two side of the road pleased all. It is about 32 km south of along the beach, a nice place for a picnic and photo-shooting. The famous “Broken Hills”, waterfalls and Himchari national park here are rare sights. Froest Department of Bangladesh creates a picnic spot in Himchari. Everyday thousands of tourists travel here in Himchari to experience the intermingling of sea, sky and hills.
Waterfall of Himchari
Visiting places of himchari:
1) Beautiful Waterfall 2) Himchari National Park 3) Broken Hill 4) Christmas Tree
From Kalatali stand, it is only 15-minute ride to entry; if you take a taxi or chander gari (local transport). You can also rent a car from Cox’s Bazar. You can go Himchari from Cox’s Bazar in Marine Drive roadway by Car, Chander Gari or rickshaw.
After visiting Himchari if you want to stay at night, should stay in Cox’s Bazar. You will get a number of hotels and restaurants there with different budget.
Note: It is not wise to stay here after sunset. You can reach Himchari only by the beach. So, ensure you are back to town before high tide rise in the evening.
DIGHI OR LAKE
Founder of the Well-known Shane Dynasty Vijay Shing dug this Lake.
The lake is situated 3 km west from Feni Trunk road 0 point at the
Vijay Singh village near the Feni circuit house. Total area of the lake
is 37.57 acres. The 4 bank of this lake are decorated with tall trees.
The formarDeputy Commissioner of Feni made this fine environment by
planting lot of trees in 1995. Vijay Shing lake of the historical lake of Feni. tourist from varity places come to visit this nice lake.
Rajajhir dighi or lake is situted in the main 0 point of
Feni. A king of Tripura dug this lake for Ecdysis the blindness of his
daughter about five or six hundred years ago. The headquarters of the
subdistrict, Feni sadar Thana, Feni court, the mosque, officers’ club,
children’s park and the national heart foundation is beside here. The
intotal area of this lake is 10.32 acres. Rajajhir dighi is a
historical and Sightseeing Spots of Feni.
Shilua village at Chagalnaiya Sub-district there is a
historic almost ruined rock Statue. Which is in the east of Feni. The
Braksmi letter in the rock Statue proves the indication of the Aryan
civilization. This old-time historical property is preserved under the
archaeological law from the British rule.
The shrine of Pagla Miah one of the main attractions of
Feni District Sadar. The origenal name of the saint Pagla Miah was Syed
Amir Uddin (rah), A Muslim saint of 18th century.His birth place is
Fazilpur Dhanua village. Brown in 1823 and died in 1887. People
celebrate orosh in his shrine on the 1st Thursday of every Falgun
(Bengali month) which was his birthday. Lot of visitor come there from
varity religions. He has made a large impact on the lives and livelihood
of the modern civilization of Feni. There are many common rumors are
about his supernatural power.
One km south-west from Feni railway station
In Takia road beside the big Jam-e-masjid
One half km from Feni zero point.
Muhuri Irrigation Project is
one of the importent irrigation project of Bangladesh Started in
1977-1978 finised in 1985-1986 Which depends on the waters of three
rivers Feni, Muhuri and Kalidas Pahalia. A sluice gate of fourty foct
has been built to provide water to Feni Sadar, Chagalnaia, Porshuram,
Fulgazi, Shonagazi and few area of Mirshorai sub-district of Chittagong
for reducing the Possibility
of flood in the rainy season and also for the Aman crops. A Japane
company SIMUJHU construct this project with the help of SIDA, EEC and
World Bank.
1. 20194 hector area are got irrigation facility and 27125 hector areas got full irrigation facility.
2. Many Picnic spot and park has been built beside this project.
3. visitor from many places of the country come to visit its natural beauty.
4. It constitutes the artificial dam, Courses & Programs, fish sanctuary, different birds, low barriers of stone Durba immaculate grass bed around the regulator.
5. One can see many kind of duck and almost about 50000 species of birds if he takes a tour by boat.
Bungalow of BWDB near the spot or District Council Postal Bungalow and Residential Hotel - Restaurant Nasir and residential hotels 20 km away from the tourists’ place, in Upajilla Sadar
Vijay Shing lake
FENI
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| Vijay Shing lake |
DIGHI
Rajajhir dighi
FENI
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| Feni Rajajhir dighi or lake |
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ARYAN CIVILIZATION
Sila Statue at Shilua village
FENI
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| Evidence of Aryan civilization |
Location:
Nine km from Chagalnaiya Sadar sub-district. Chagalnaiya 18 km from Feni sadar.SAINT
Shirin of Hazrat Pagla Miah or Syed Amir Uddin (Rh)
FENI
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| Shrine of Hazrat pagla baba (Feni District) |
Location :
One km south-west from Feni railway station
In Takia road beside the big Jam-e-masjid
One half km from Feni zero point.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
MUHURI IRRIGATION PROJECT
Muhuri Irrigation Project
FENI
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| Muhuri Irrigation Project |
Irrigation Projects impact on this area :
1. 20194 hector area are got irrigation facility and 27125 hector areas got full irrigation facility.
2. Many Picnic spot and park has been built beside this project.
3. visitor from many places of the country come to visit its natural beauty.
4. It constitutes the artificial dam, Courses & Programs, fish sanctuary, different birds, low barriers of stone Durba immaculate grass bed around the regulator.
5. One can see many kind of duck and almost about 50000 species of birds if he takes a tour by boat.
Muhuri Irrigation Project:
20
km away from Feni Sadar to Shonagazi Subdistrict Sadar > another 20
kilometers from Shonagazi subdistrict Sadar. total distance 40 km from
Feni sadar.
Accommodation facilities:
Bungalow of BWDB near the spot or District Council Postal Bungalow and Residential Hotel - Restaurant Nasir and residential hotels 20 km away from the tourists’ place, in Upajilla Sadar
Friday, October 7, 2011
FENI RIVER
Feni River
FENI
Feni River (Bangla: is a river in the Indian state of Tripura and southeastern Bangladesh. It is a trans-boundary river with an on-going dispute.But recently India, Bangladesh finalised deal on Teesta, Feni river waters
Feni River rises from the hill ranges of the Indian state of tripura at 23°20'N and 91°47'E, flows southwest marking the boundary with the chittagong hill tracts, then flows west, separating Tripura from chittagong up to Aliganj and then emerges out of the hills and passes through the plains dividing Chittagong from noakhali before falling into the bay of bengal at 22°50'N and 91°27'E. This river belongs to Bangladesh as it used to form the demarcation line between Chittagong, Noakhali and Tripura State of India. But since 1960, India is using the river, claiming their right up to the midstream.
The river is 116 km long from the source to the Bay of Bengal and 80.5 km of it up to Ramgarh is navigable throughout the year by small boats. During monsoon rains it remains full of water but with every heavy shower in its catchment area it becomes furious with rapid currents and whirling eddies at sharp turns. The muhuri from Noakhali district, also called little feni, falls into it near its mouth but it has no important affluent from Chittagong district. The river is gradually silting up due to reckless extraction of timber tree from the hill slopes and consequent heavy erosion of the hills.
FENI
Feni River (Bangla: is a river in the Indian state of Tripura and southeastern Bangladesh. It is a trans-boundary river with an on-going dispute.But recently India, Bangladesh finalised deal on Teesta, Feni river waters
Feni River rises from the hill ranges of the Indian state of tripura at 23°20'N and 91°47'E, flows southwest marking the boundary with the chittagong hill tracts, then flows west, separating Tripura from chittagong up to Aliganj and then emerges out of the hills and passes through the plains dividing Chittagong from noakhali before falling into the bay of bengal at 22°50'N and 91°27'E. This river belongs to Bangladesh as it used to form the demarcation line between Chittagong, Noakhali and Tripura State of India. But since 1960, India is using the river, claiming their right up to the midstream.
The river is 116 km long from the source to the Bay of Bengal and 80.5 km of it up to Ramgarh is navigable throughout the year by small boats. During monsoon rains it remains full of water but with every heavy shower in its catchment area it becomes furious with rapid currents and whirling eddies at sharp turns. The muhuri from Noakhali district, also called little feni, falls into it near its mouth but it has no important affluent from Chittagong district. The river is gradually silting up due to reckless extraction of timber tree from the hill slopes and consequent heavy erosion of the hills.
CHENGI RIVER
Chengi River
KHAGRACHARI
A noticeably small river, having very shallow in depth, one can pass the river by walking easily, regardless the season. Though the river is very narrow and shallow, but the current of the river is very strong.If you simply drop a straw or any other crumb into the water, you can easily find how fast that stuffs are floating.
This river is not that much beautiful or eye pleasing due to the muddy water. Also the river used to carry lots of dry leafs from trees and grasses. But the main attraction is, how it is flowing through the mountains. If you observe the river from the top of any hill(specially "Alu Tila"), it will appear you as a giant snake from far side. So many turns and twists.
NANCHHORI RIVER
Nanchhori River
KHAGRACHARI
Nunchhori, probably the smallest river .Will it be better to call this a canal. This small river has the main water source is a lake named "Debotar Pukur", which is located at "Nunchhori" of Khagrachhori, and having an elevation of 700 ft from sea level. It is must, you have to pass the so called river if you wish to visit that lake.
The average depth of the river is around 1 ft, or may be less. It has a constant flow throughout the year, and only God knows how the lake used to produce this amount of water every day.Local people used to drink the water from here, and also they used it for their daily needs. Its very hard to find any tube well around here due to the rocks and stones under the soil.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
MATAI PUKURI
Matai Pukuri
The lake is at 700 feet above from the sea level. And it will take
your full energy to reach at the peak. You'll find a stream, that was
created from the water of the lake during your walking path. The last
part of the path is really hard.Its a direct upwards path, and at a
time you'll feel like this path will never end. A suggestion that take a
break for each 25/30 steps.
The lake is not that much beautiful. But,you will be a hard work
to reach there, it will forced to made the lake beautiful. You can have
some time to explore the hills around the lake. The place is really
beautiful. During the Summer, lots of people used to visit this place.
This is kind of pilgrimage area for the tribal people. For example this
lake is holy for the Tripura people.
There is only one bus providing the service at that route.
Khagrachhori-Rangamati bus service. But this one is available only one
per hour.Otherwise "Chander Gari" is available.This will drop you at
"Mais Chhori" bazar. Matai Pukuri around 7 kilometer apart from the
"Mais Chhori" bazar. 4 kilometer is road(but no public service
avilable), and other 3 kilometer(walking) is upwards mountain
ride.Soyou can hire a motor bike for the 4 kilometer(instead of
walking). it will recover some time loss. Then you can take a bike rider
as well as a guide. It will be better for you. After 4 kilomiter you
will reached a village then three kilomitter you need to walk.
KHAGRACHARI
Matai Pukhiri
This beauty is just at the path of Debotar Pukur
You can explore the hills around the lake
Saturday, October 22, 2011
ALUTILA CAVE
Alutila Cave
KHAGRACHARI
Alutila hill at Khagrachhari. Approximately 100 meters long a very dark Cave is the mysterious beauty of Alutila hill. If you are courageous and adventure lover, then this is a perfect spot to vanquish. There is no risk, nothing to worry, but hundreds of people used to return back without exploring the cave, just for lake of braveness.
There is no extra ticket for the cave. The 5 taka is the entry fee to enter the Alutila Hill. If you want to explore the cave, then you can buy a torch made from local materials for 5 taka.Usually it requires around 5-7 minutes to pass the cave.
So dont miss this place.
KHAGRACHARI
Alutila hill at Khagrachhari. Approximately 100 meters long a very dark Cave is the mysterious beauty of Alutila hill. If you are courageous and adventure lover, then this is a perfect spot to vanquish. There is no risk, nothing to worry, but hundreds of people used to return back without exploring the cave, just for lake of braveness.
There is no extra ticket for the cave. The 5 taka is the entry fee to enter the Alutila Hill. If you want to explore the cave, then you can buy a torch made from local materials for 5 taka.Usually it requires around 5-7 minutes to pass the cave.
So dont miss this place.
Friday, October 21, 2011
KHAGRACHARI AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE
Khagrachari Agricultural Institute
KHAGRACHARI
"Khagrachhori Krishi Institute"(Agricultural institute) is located beside the Khagrachhori-Dighinala highway. It will take you around 30 minutes to reach the place using a auto rickshaw that driven by battery. You'll find plenty of materials related with agriculture.
Actually, if you are tree lover, and you love two enjoy your day with various kinds of trees, then its a place for you. Its built using a huge area, and there are numerous kinds of fruits trees. The main think you'll love, all of the trees are identified at a sign board. So it will help you to know more trees.
NEWZELAND PLACE
Newzeland place
KHAGRACHARI
Theres a interesting place in Khagrachari with yet another interesting name - New Zealand. Its basically a cafe with some munchies. Paddy fields on either side. Its a killer feeling.The place is really beautiful. One side is a mountain, and other side is a paddy field. That means a flatland, and a mountain are at juxtapose.
The decoration of the restaurant is simple. Few benches under the open air. Few benches under the shades made from straws. Very very simple decoration, but the beauty is really bewitching. Also there is a kid zone which is really simple, but excellent.They used to serve food quickly, and while taking your foods, you can enjoy the beauty. You will have seen the local farmers were planting the paddy at the fields at my time.
You can find they are harvesting at your time. After having the food, take a small walk at the wide meandered path that went through the paddy fields. If you want to visit the place, better go at afternoon, otherwise you'll miss the beauty. Price of the foods are as usual. They are not taking any high price from you.
Its not far from the main town. Just around 15-20 taka rickshaw fare from bus terminal. The place is really beautiful.
RESANG WATERFALL, RICHANG JHARNA
Resang waterfall, resung waterfall, rechong waterfall, reassang waterfall, Richang jharna
KHAGRACHARI 
Resang/resung/rechong/reassang whatever you say, its another beautiful waterfall from Bangladesh, and this time its from Khagrachhari district. Not too many people visit this district for refreshment. This waterfall(jhorna) is just around 10-12 kilometer apart from the main town.
After falling the water from the top, its just sliding over the rocks. It can lured you to slid your posterior over the greasy rocks. Also you can be tempted to get near at the bottom of the fall. But its just calling the death yourself.
There are several valleys around the waterfall, you can enjoy those beauties too. To get near to the Resung waterfall, local authority made a stair for the visitors. It was rainy season, and the amount of water flowing from the waterfall was uncountable.
Way to reach the waterfall:
Several options for reaching the waterfall from the Khagrachhari town. There are lots of public bus used to leave from the bus terminal for Chittagong and Feni. You can take any one of those.Beside the highway,a signboard which says where is the waterfall. From the highway, its 2.1 kilometer walking distance.There are numerous number of hills around the path and being rainy season, the environment is enchantingly green. But if you have your own vehicle, you can use it.Also when you'll reach at the fall after walking, you'll feel more adventurous.
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