Chittagong tourism guide

In our previous posts we already discussed about Bandarban, Khagrachari, Rangamati the most beautiful places of Bangladesh. In Sylhet there are lots of beautiful place and Bandarban and Khagrachari are two hill cities. Today we will talk about Chittagong. This is another hill tracking zone of Bangladesh.

Chittagong

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Chittagong is one of the most beautiful cities of Bangladesh. It is another hill tracking travel zone. It is also known as Porto Grand de Bengala and in the age of Mughal the name of the city was Islamabad. After Dhaka city the Chittagong is the 2nd most populous city in Bangladesh. Chittagong port is the main sea port of Bangladesh. This city located on the bank of the River named Karnaphuli. The population of Chittagong metropolitan city is near about 6,500,000. The total area of the city is 168.07 km2 (64.89 sq. mi). The Coordinates of the Chittagong is 22°22′0″N 91°48′0″E, and the Country is Bangladesh, and the District is Chittagong district, and the Division Chittagong is also Chittagong division. Now a day Chittagong has become very attractive traveling zone to the tourist. Lots of people come to visit this city every day. Some of them come from abroad. So the city plays a vital role in commercial, financial and industrial hub. There are many beautiful places in Chittagong to travel. Here we will give a short list of the traveling zone of Chittagong. 

Banskhali Echo Park: 

This echo park situated in Banskhali at Chittagong. Firstly you have to reach Chittagong from Dhaka. Then go to Banskhali from Chittagong. There are many bus services to go Chittagong and rent is 480 to 1200 taka. You can also travel Chittagong by train and rent is 320 taka to 610 taka only. It takes 7 hours to reach Chittagong. You can go the Eco Park by CNG or Auto Rickshaw. The entry fee of this park is 10 taka only. There are two long bridge in this park by which you can see around of this park. There are two towers in this park which is best for sight-seeing and also a mini zoo for the tourists or visitors. You have to leave his park before evening because there is no guest house or motel in this park for the tourist or visitors. In this park you will find light food like as biscuits, chanacur, cheeps etc. but you cannot complete your lunch because there is no hotel in this park. You can also travel there with your family because it is a safe place for the tourists. You have to neat and clean this park which is ordered by the Park organization. There is a beach near to the park. You can also travel this beach. It is a very beautiful sea beach and important tourism spot in Chittagong.

Mirsharai range:

Chittagong is a hill city. It is the perfect place for hill tracking or outdoor spots and also travel. Mirsharai is a well-known upazila in Bangladesh under the Chittagong district.It is a beautiful tourism spot. Its total area is 482.88 square km. this upazila is surrounded by Tripura State of India. The hills range on the northern and eastern side of this sub district which is the perfect place for hill tracking and traveling. Total populations are about 325712. The main river of this upazila is Feni. You can spend a memorable day in your life in this Mirsharai range.

Sitakunda Eco Park Bangladesh:

Sitakunda Candranath hill is the perfect place for hill tracking in Chittagong. It is about 35 km away from the main town. It is very near to the Sitakunda main Bazar. This hill is our favorite small tracking destination. It takes about 2 hours to climb this hill. At the time of climbing you can see many temples, waterfall, hills trail and so onat this tourism spot. This hill is situated beside on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway. To travel this tourism spot firstly you have to reach Sitakunda and then you can go there by walking. You can also travel a beautiful Eco park which is very close to Chandranath hill. Local name of this Eco Park is Shitakunda Eco Park. It is about 33 km from Chittagong main town. This park is full of natural beauty and endless repository. There are lots of trees and wild life in this park. You can also visit 4 waterfall in this park.

Shupto dhara waterfall: 

You can find this fall in the Sitakunda Eco Park. You will sea the signboard of Shupto dhara waterfall in the way of Eco park road. If you walk through the upstream of water you will find the beautiful Shuptp dhara waterfall. You can get help from the local people to reach this waterfall. It is really so beautiful tourism place for travel. It can be a best memorable visit or travel experience in your life. You should travel this beautiful place at rainy season. If you want to enjoy the pure and natural beauty of the Shupto dhara waterfall.

Sohosro dhara waterfall: 

Shopto dhara waterfall is very close to Sohosro dhara waterfall. This is another beautiful tourism spot of Bangladesh. They are on the same way. You can go there by walking from Shopto dhara waterfall. It is also one of the most beautiful and attractive tourist spot in the Bangladesh. Every a lot of tourists come to visit those waterfall.

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Khoiyachora waterfall: 

It is the biggest waterfall in the Sitakunda-Mirsharai range. This waterfall is one of the most beautiful tourism places of Chittagong. It is so much difficult to travel there. There are so many waterfall in the same trail. To travel there you have to start walking in the Boro Takiya Bazar. Boro Takiya is a small Bazar beside the Dhaka-Chittagong highway. The rent is about 50 taka only Chittagong to Boro Takiya Bazar. It takes 1.5 hours to reach Khoiya Chora waterfall from Boro Takiya Bazar. Another most beautiful waterfall is Boro Darugha Hat waterfall. It is the most attractive tourist spot in Chittagong District.

Foy’s Lake: 

Foy's Lake is the most important tourism place of Chittagong. Foy’s Lake is in the khulshi at Chittagong town. It is about 8 km away from the main town. Foy’s lake is the most beautiful and attractive lake in Bangladesh. It is an artificial lake. In 1924 it was dug under the Assam Bengal Railway Authority and it was known as Pahartali Lake. It is renamed by the British railway engineerFoy. Now the present ownership of this lake is Bangladesh Railway. The biggest hill in the Chittagong is Batali hill which is situated beside the Foy’s Lake. This artificial lake is one of the attractive and most beautiful tourist spot in Bangladesh. Country’s largest construction company Concord has set up an entertainment park in this lake, where visitors can tour the lake, boats, restaurants, tracking and concerts are also held.A beautiful small zoo is in here for the tourist. You can also travel this mini zoo. There are many cottages in this lake. You can also stay there. Every year lots of tourist come to travel this beautiful lake to enjoy the natural beauty. To travel this beautiful place firstly you have to reach Chittagong then straight lake.

Chittagong Zoo and Court Building:

It is another beautiful tourism spot. You can travel this zoo for your mind refreshment. Cause it is a very beautiful place in the Chittagong town. This beautiful and attractive zoo was built in 1989 beside the Foy’s Lake. Total area of this park is 6 acres. In 2000 the total animal of this park is 280. This zoo is an artificial zoo which provides you mind refreshment and remove boringness in your life. Now we will talk about Court Building of Chittagong. This court building situated in the traditional hill Porir Pahar. By climbing this hill you will find this old building. Now this building is used for DC office. If you want you can travel this place. Really it is a very beautiful place in the Chittagong town. You will not forget this attraction in your life. You will never forget this tourism place in your life.

War Cemetery Chittagong Bangladesh: 

There is a war cemetery in the Chittagong which is known as Chittagong war cemetery. It is about 22 km north form the Shah Amanat International Airport and 8 km from Chittagong Port. After the 2nd world war British Army built this war cemetery. There are 400 graves in this cemetery. You can go there by bus or Auto Rickshaw from the Chittagong main town. It is an attractive place to travel. Every year a lot of tourists come to visit this war cemetery. By traveling there you have an extra experience in your life. 

Lal Dighi: 

Lal Dighi is one of the most attractive and beautiful traveling places in Bangladesh. It is situated end of the jail road in the Chittagong main town. There are two red building besides the pond and that’s why it is known Lal Dighi. There is also a temple in the northern side of the pond. Raja Ray Bahadur was a king of Chittagong. He was the owner of this Lal Dighi. Chittagong City Corporation is the new owner of this Dighi. You can travel there by bus or Auto Rickshaw. It is really a beautiful place to travel. 

Ethnological Museum of Chittagong: 

It is situated at the Agrabad in the Chittagong main city. This beautiful museum was built in 1965. There is no entry charge to enter the museum. It is always opened for the visitors or tourist. This museum is also used as a laboratory. You can travel this place to collect an extra experience in your life. 

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Halda River & Patenga Sea beach:

This River is in south-eastern part of Chittagong. The total length of this river is 81 km. This river mixed with Karnaphuli River in the kalurgath. Halda River is named by the saldha hilly village. This River is started from the Batnatoli hill. It is a very beautiful river in the Bangladesh. You can enjoy the natural beauty to travel this river. Patenga Sea beach is one of the most attractive and beautiful picnic spots in Bangladesh. Patenga beach is the closest see beach in the Chittagong town.

Those are the main attractions of Chittagong. There is also Bangladesh Naval Academy, Butterfly garden, Baizid Bostami mazar (Shrine of Bayazid Bostami), Batali hill, Vatiary Lake Chittagong, Medhshomoni ashram Shankha River and Vatiary Lake in Chittagong. We will discuss about those places in next briefly. We believe it will be so much helpful to you to make your tour better. Bangladesh life solution will help you by giving you the information about the traveling places of Chittagong and we believe it will be a great guide line solution to you.

How to go:

The main problem is how we can reach this place easily. You can go Chittagong from Dhaka by bus or train. If you want to go Chittagong by bus there are so many bus counters to go to Chittagong. Green Line counter is in Momen Bagh, Rajarbagh, Dhaka. The another bus services are Shohagh Paribahan (Pvt.) Limited, Shymoli Paribahan, Hanif Enterprise, BRTC and so on. If you want to go to Chittagong by train there are lots of train services from Dhaka to Chittagong. The rent of AC (Barth) is 1093 Taka/, AC (Seat) = 731 Taka/, 1st Class (Barth)= 635 Taka/, 1st Class (Seat) = 425 Taka/, Snigdha = 610 Taka/ and Shuvon (Chair) = 320 Taka/-

Where to stay:

Now the important fact is where you will stay. There are lots of hotels in Chittagong. The hotels are, The Peninsula Chittagong, Avenue Hotel & Suites, Hotel Lord’s Inn (Pvt.) Ltd, Royal Park Residential Hotel, Meridian Hotel and Restaurant, Naba Inn, Hotel Abakash, The Peninsula Chittagong etc. All this hotels are in Chittagong city. We have tried to give you all kind of information about Chittagong in here.

Today we try to give you accurate information and proper guideline about Chittagong district. This is really a beautiful place for traveling. Now a day it comes as an important and most attractive travel zone for the tourist. We believe our information, that we have described in details (as possible as we can do) will helpful to you to make a good trip in there. In future we will be described about some new places of Chittagong like as Mirsarai range, Sitakunda echo park, Shupto dhara waterfall, Sohosro dhara waterfall, Khoiyachora waterfall, Foy’s Lake etc. and we also believe that you will continue with us to know more about one of the most beautiful traveling zone Chittagong and obviously about the beauty of Bangladesh. To move our next post Sylhet, please click here.

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Beauty of Bangladesh: Sajek valley - Rangamati

We always say traveling is a good habit of one’s life. It will make one’s life beautiful.Life solution is a site where you can find the solution and guide lines about the problem that related to the tour. It will help you to make your tour in the traveling spots of Bangladesh and it will guide you and give you the solution that related to the tour. Here you can find the tourist spots, how to go this spots. It will also guide you to find where to stay when you travel this spots, guide you about the transportation system to reach these spots. We believe our information will help you to make a good tour at the traveling place.

Bangladesh has lots of beautiful spots to travel. It has lots of beautiful and important traveling spots. But, we usually want to go abroad for traveling to enjoy the attraction of beauty. Because lots of people of Bangladesh still now not know about the traveling spots of Bangladesh. And if we talking about the foreigners, how could they will know about traveling spots of Bangladesh? Because there is no such a web page that will contain proper description about Bangladesh travel spots. That is why we are here to give the proper and appropriate information about the beautiful traveling spots of Bangladesh. 

Anyway, in according to our previous post we have been talking about “ALOTILA & GOHA” & “RISARNG FALL”. We believe it was helpful to all of you for solution your traveling problems. Such a beautiful palace those were, we believe. Anyway today we will talk about our next project Rangamati which is another traveling place of Bangladesh. Let us know something about Rangamati to travel there.

Rangamati

Rangamati is the main headquarter of Rangamati hill district. Rangamati is the part of Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. It is very important and a capital city of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Rangamati is one of the most important and beautiful traveling places of Bangladesh. The coordinates of Rangamati is 23.0417°N 91.9944°E. Rangamati is one of the most beautiful Hill Tracking traveling spots of Bangladesh. It is also known as “Lake City” of Bangladesh. It is about 77 km far from Chittagong district and near about 302 km distance from Dhaka. 

When you will travel to Rangamati from Chittagong, you can observe the beauty of winding hills and green fields on the way. Rangamati is located on the western bank of the kaptai Lake. Now a day Rangamari has become very important traveling place to the tourist. There are lots of beautiful places in Rangamati to travel. At present time Rangamati has become a favorite holiday destination and one of the most important place for travel to the tourist because of its beautiful landcape, scenic beauty, lake, colorful indigenous group like marma, chakma, khashiya etc, its flora and fauna, indigenous museum and archeology, hanging bridge, home spun textile products of indigenous people, ivory jewelry and the indigenous men and women who fashion them. That is all the beauty of Rangamati. Tourist from different places can enjoy this kind of scenic beauty in Rangamati. The most important traveling places in Rangamati are- Sajek Velly, Rajban Bihar Pagoda, Peda Ting Ting, Tribal Cultural Museum, Hanging Bridge, Shovolon Fall, Kaptai National Park, Royal Chakma Palace, Rangamati Kaptai Lake, Furaman Hill etc. Let us know about theses traveling places of Bangladesh accordingly.

At present time Sajek Valley has become very important traveling zone to the tourist. Let us know something about Sajek Valley first. Sajek Valley is in Rangamati district. It is one of the most important and attractive traveling place of Rangamati and also for Bangladesh. Well then let us see something important facts about “SAJEK VELLY”.

Sajek valley:

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The coordinates of Sajek Valley is 23.0417°N 91.9944°E. Sajek Valley is about 7 or 8 hour car distance from Rangamati. It is situated in baghaichori Upojilla on Rangamati district. Sajek Valley is the biggest union of Bangladesh. It has an area of 702 square mails. In the east of Sajek Valley there is Tripura of India, in the west longdu of Rangamati, in the north the mijuram of India, and in the south there is dighinala of Khagrachori. Though it is situated in Rangamati, but it is easy to go Sajek form dighinala of Khagrachori as we said previously. If anyone want to travel to Sajek Valley from Rangamati, then first he or she has to cross Kaptai by boat and then have to walk a lots of way to trael to Sajek Valley. In that case you may enjoy the natural beauty of Bangladesh when you will travel by boat but it will take too much time.

But if anyone wants to travel to Sajek Valley from Khagrachori then, he or she can go by bus. It is about 70 km from Khagrachori district and from dighinala it is about 49 km and from baghaihat it is about 34 km. From Khagrachori, you have to go first dighinala army camp. Then 10 no. baghaihat army and police camp. It is the place from where you have to take the permission to go Sajek Valley. Then you will see Kashalong Bridge. After that you will find tiger tila army post and mashalong bazaar. After crossing those you will reach roloipara village of Sajek. The height of this village is about 1800 fit from the sea level. There is a BGB camp in Sajek Valley. It is the highest BGB camp of Bangladesh. There are also hazachora fall, dighinala hanging bridge and also the forestry area of dighinala. It will take 2 or 3 days to see them all.

How to go:

To travel to Sajek Valley from Dhaka you can use bus or personal car. Bus services: Shemoly, Haif, BRTC etc. BY all these buses you can go both Khagrachoti and Rangamati. From Khagrachori you can take reserve CNG or jeep car from Khagrachori. Rent will be 5000-6000 tk. 15 person can be sited in one jeep. And CNG rent will be 3000 tk. Or you can go first dighinala by bus (rent will be 50 tk per persons ) or by motor bike (rent will be 100 tk per persons). Then from dighinala to Sajek by motor bike (reserve will take tk 1200).

Where to stay:

In Khagrachari there are lots of hotels like: Porjoton motel (rent: A/C 2100, non A/C 1300), Giri thobra (rent: Single room 1200 tk, Double room: 2050 tk, VIP room: 3050tk). There are also hotel ico chori, hotel shoilo shoborno etc.Or you can stay in dighinala. The hotels of dighinala are Dighinala guest house (rent: 300-500tk), Shajahan hotel etc.

Here was all about Sajek Valley. Such a beautiful place it is. Everybody should travel to Sajek Valley for recreation. It will be great joy if you travel this place because it really a beautiful traveling place. It is one of the best places to spend your idle time. Now we will discuss about the place is called Peda Ting Ting. It is another beautiful place of Rangamati and also a most important traveling zone of Bangladesh.

Peda Ting Ting:

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The Coordinates of Peda Ting Ting is 23.0417°N 91.9944°E. Peda Ting Ting is kind of tribal word. Peda Ting Ting means Pet Vore Khoua or Vor Pet Khoua in Bangle language and in English it can say eating fully or full stomach. Peda Ting Ting is a very small island of Kaptai Lake. It is a secluded island in the Rangamati Lake. It is a anootehr beautiful tourist resort. It was built exclusively for tourist to eat in captivating surroundings of natural beauty. In here tourist can also stay because they have accommodation for the tourist to stay overnight. In Peda Ting Ting There are only a few numbers of cottages to accommodate overnight visitors, so you have to book the palace in advance if you want to stay here and it is recommended obviously.

Peda Ting Ting is not only a beautiful place but also a very calm and quiet place. Maximum of the traveler choose this island because of its calm and quiet nature. Peda Ting Ting is the best place for relaxing with novels and music. The island gives the tourist a great opportunity to break away completely and forget his or her sorrows. It is also help the tourist to minimize their pain in the friendly and calming island culture. It may be a great solution for the tourist. The restaurant of Peda Ting Ting Island is well known for its best quality dishes and extremely tasty food. Among of all item, Bamboo Chicken is one of their special items, and the interesting part is it is served inside of the bamboo. Moonlit evenings, rare experiences and a calming island breeze await the visitors. All of these beauties create a destination in Bangladesh where visitors are able to relax with good and testy food, beautiful views and natural surroundings.

How to go in Peda Ting Ting:

To go Peda Ting Ting you have to go first Rangamati. From Dhaka there are lots of buses like Shemoly, Hanif, BRTC etc and from Chittagong there are some local busses here. Then you have to use the local transportation to go Peda Ting Ting. We believe it will help you to solution your problems and a great guide lines also.

Where to stay:

One can stay in Peda Ting Ting. It is one of the most beautiful places to spend your idle time. Otherwise there are lots of hotels in Rangamati to stay. It was all about Peda Ting Ting. Peda Ting Ting is really a beautiful place to travel. Lots of the travelers travel every day at this place. Those who want quiet and calm places for recreation we believe Peda Ting Ting is the best place and our information will guide you in right way and help you to solution your problems. Now we will discuss about another beautiful traveling place of Bangladesh and that is Kaptai Lake. It is also in Rangamati district. Let us know something about Kaptai Lake first.

Kaptai Lake:

The coordinates of Kaptai Lake is 22°29′45″N 92°13′45″E. Kaptai Lake is another beautiful lake that was made by human. This beautiful lake is situated in south-eastern Bangladesh. It is in Kaptai Upazila which is under Rangamati District of Chittagong Division. The Kaptai Lake was made to build Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River. It was the part of the Karnaphuli Hydro-Electric Project. Kaptai Lake is a very big and so deep lake. The average depth of the lake is near about 100 feet or 30 m and the maximum depth of the lake is 490 feet or 150 m.

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History of Kaptai Lake:

The construction of beautiful Kpatai Lake was begun in 1956 by the Government of East Pakistan. Kaptai Lake was designed to build hydro-electric plant. For this reason near about 54000 acres or 220 km² area of farmland of Rangamati District went under the project and the Kaptai Lake was build. This hydro-electric project was funded by the United States of America. It took very long time to finish the Kaptai Lake project. The project was finished in 1962 and that means it takes near about 6 years to complete the project. International Engineering Company and Utah International Inc. were two companies who received the contract for construction of the Kaptai Lake dam. The dam is near about 670.8 meters long, and near about 54.7 meters high. The beautiful Kaptai Lake dam has a 745 feet or 227 meter long spillway. There are 16 gates in this spillway. Near about 5,250,000 cu ft per second or 149,000 meter cube per second of water can pass by each spillway. 

The total land that went under water to build the Kaptai Lake dam was near about 40% of the total agricultural land in the area. Along with that, near about 29 square miles or 75 square km of the Government-owned forest went to under water, and also near about 234 square miles 610 square km of other forest land went under water. About 18,000 families with a total of almost 100 thousand people were also displaced from that place. The palace of the king of the Chakma was also flooded and it is now under water too.

How to go in Kaptai Lake: 

To go Kaptai Lake you have to go first Rangamati. Then from Rangamati you can to Kaptai Lake by local transportation. From Dhaka there are lots of buses like Shemoly, Hanif, BRTC etc and from Chittagong there are some local busses here. 

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You can stay in Rangamati. There are lots of hotels is Rangamati like Hotel Green castle, Hotel Sufia etc. 

Well, today we have tried to give you total information about Rangamati. We have discussed about Shaje Valley, Peda Ting Ting, Kaptai Lake also. Such a beautiful place these are. Now days it comes as an important and most attractive travel spot to the tourist. We believe our information, that we have described in details (as possible as we can do) will guide you to make a good tour in there and also give you a good solution about the problems. To make tour in different spots will make your life happy. To make tour at one place will help you to make a beautiful life. It will guide you life in good direction and give you the solution of your problems. That’s why it is a helpful fact to your life.

Anyway that’s obviously not the last about Rangamati or about the beauty of Bangladesh. In our next post we will be taking about some new places of Rangamati like as Rajban Bihar Pagoda, Tribal Cultural Museum, Hanging Bridge, Shovolon Fall etc and also about Chittagong. And we wish & also believe you will be continuing with us to know more about the beautiful Khagrachori and the beauty of Rangamati and obviously about the beautiful traveling places of Bangladesh.

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