Bangladesh Cultural Photo Tours

Bangladesh cultural Photography tour

Expeditions date: 2^nd February to 16^th February 2026 and 7^th March to 21^st March 2026

Bangladesh is one of the most cheerful cultural travel destinations in Southeast Asia, not only offering experiences the festival moods peoples multi-ethnic festival & celebrations. immerse you to deeper digging the way peoples earliest expression of culture, generation-owned practice and typical way of trades, the emerald of South Asia, is one of the world’s most intriguing and beautiful photogenic countries.  It is a world of friendly people, rich cultures, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, bustling streets and industries that are labored by hand in the same way they have been for centuries.

Why Bangladesh most cheerful cultural travel destination in the World?

Bangladesh peoples involvement with weaving, agricultural farming and fishing but the countries peoples are performed these daily works by using their hands despite rest of the world has modern mechanized.

* A labor has worth practice of hard working for bricks making and delivery to the van although their income is lowest to survive as well.

* Enjoy the festival mood peoples wear traditional color sharee in the spring festival ( 14^th February)

* A farmer both man and woman hard working by their hands for rice production and harvesting time severe energy losses due to process, husking, sundried and straw storage after drying. Some places where farmers living with unstable grounds and severely damages due to seasonal storms and floods.

* A woman labors in competition of a man production based load / unload coal and sands from the ships when their kids sitting aside of the workshop.

* Bangladesh festival mood gathering peoples has strong belief system and rich hospitality shared with honey touch attitude and so that each ethnicity has several festivals, colorful rituals and annual celebration like Bangla New Year and spring festival. Bangladesh Expeditions always suggest Photographers for traveling here during Festival and religious congregation.

* Bangladesh is the only place where children involve for dyeing fabrics by using hands, health risk hard working for crushing stone, boat building, repairing, recycling, ship breaking, production of bricks and typical fishing in the sea by moon shaped small boats, millions of sea fish drying, woman agricultural works and fishing with trained otters.  Photographers can enjoy all of these generation owned practice and given culture of the contemporary society going on race to survive.

Duration: 14 Days / 13 Nights

Location:  Dhaka, Barisal, Narail, Khulna , Bogra, Chittagong, Sylhet & Cox’s Bazar

Highlights of the Photographic Expeditions:

* An Photographic Expeditions relating portraits, street and drone Photography in Bangladesh

* Dhaka boat building, repairing and ship scraping along the Buriganga River.

* Thousands of canoe boats crossing river at the Sadarghat river front and focus on the labors load/unload coal and sand from ships

* An expeditions through guided interaction in the lands of River for understanding the bonds between the peoples & unstable lands of river and their adaptation through adverse effects on lives due to changes the nature.

* Travel Bangladesh’s World-famous ship wrecking yards in Chittagong and photography from a distance by boat

* Backwater cruise to the floating markets where every peasants laden their grains, Vegetables and livestock and visit floating timber markets.

* Explore pottery making rural village and boat life of gipsy peoples isolated from mainland!

* Explore a garbage area where waste pickers searching resources and collect rubbish for recycling

* Experience the generation owned practice of fishing with pet otters

* Many rural woman including farmers wives sun-dried seasonal red chilies in the open fields where woman collecting some rotten chilies. A photographer can take photo shoots the horizontal view of spreading red chilies.

* enjoy the practice of hard-working labors in bricks making factories.

* Imagine a children and woman both man are involved in Batik fabrics row dyeing, processing, printing, sewing and sun-dried on the large areas around Dhaka

* Traditional Pit-loom Weaving village where last remaining expert weavers weaving, dyeing and cotton processing woman with very low price.

*Tour to the largest stone mines of Sylhet where labors with health risk raising stone, crushing and processing etc.

* Enjoy the golden rays of sunset on fisherman silvery sands beach where hundreds of moon shaped boats increase the beauty of sacred landscape. .

* Enjoy fishing on rivers and at sea including fish delivery at harbor, net repairing and millions of fish drying.

Cultural Photo Tour Itinerary:

 

Day-1: GREETING IN DHAKA AND OLD DHAKA PHOTO TOUR

Arrival at Dhaka Airport, our guide will pick up & transfer to the hotel for rest, visit around slums and photography in the street following the dinner.

Overnight stay in hotel grace 21 ( 3-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Marino royal ( 4-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Regency ( 5-star )

Day-2: Batik Fabrics & Jamdhani weaving process

* In the morning we’ll drive to Experience the emerging culture of batik fabric while they dyed grey fabrics with organic colors which are process in Banti weaver’s house. Once the fabric is dyed, it goes to the second stage which involves printing. “The archaic hand block printing technique is used where experts draw a motif with which a wooden block is carved and then the process starts with blocks getting dipped into colors and then hand printed. The fabric is then put into steam and baked. Once that is done, it is washed and dried.

* Enjoy the last remaining expert pit-loom weaving, processing and unique dyeing etc.

* Male and female day Lever unload the sands and coal from water transport at Kanchpur

* We’ll also visit bricks making hard-working activities.

                                                   

Day-3: DHAKA CULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR

* At 6:00 AM, we take you to be immersed into the typical market place of Dhaka at Kawran Bazar where we experience the people’s chaos & culture in the Vegetables, chicken, fish market & local saloon etc.

* Enjoy Sadarghat river front where thousands of country boats crossing peoples due to main hub of the business in chaotic Old Dhaka.

* We’ll visit number of shipyards along the river on foot where thousands of labors engaged to dismantle some old ships corrupted shield and repairing to new one. we also visit several workshops where peoples are melting metal for making ship fans and parts.

* After having breakfast, we’ll drive for Amin Bazar (Gabtoli). Find people loading and unloading bricks, sand and coal (black diamond) from the ships. We will visit a brick factory nearby.

* If day light remains, we’ll visit Chawk Bazar – the largest wholesale market in the city where you found everything you want. The most crowded market place even covered a part of the road by wholesale shop. Here you find all types of Spices.

Day-4: Barisal Backwater trip to floating markets, pottery village and Bagerhat

* Barisal backwater cruise

* Barisal vegetables floating market

* visit local education and woman making crafts

* Visit Agricultural Heritage system

* enjoy practice of hard working activities in floating timber markets

* visit Bagerhat city of Mosque (UNESCO cultural built heritage sites)

Overnight in City inn or grand placid hotel

Day-5: experience the practice of fishing with trained otters and garbage of hill  

* visit a garbage of hill where poor people’s searching resources and wildlife searching rotten food.

* Rice mill – woman and man drying rice and kept storage.

* enjoy fishing with trained otters in Narail

* Narail to Dhaka by microbus (4hrs)

 

Overnight in hotel studio 21 (3-star)

Overnight in hotel Fars & resort (4-star)

Overnight in Holiday inn or Pan pacific ( 5-star)

Day-6: DHAKA TO SYLHET by car and Photo session at rice mills

Leave Dhaka by car for Sylhet, on the way photo session at the rice mills where man and woman drying rice at the large courtyard and kept in small sack for having better price. Check in hotel upon arrival Sylhet.

 

Overnight in Hotel Metro ( 3-star hotel)

Overnight stay in Grand Noorjahan ( 4-star)

Overnight in Nazimgarh wilderness resort ( 5-star)

 

Day-7: stone quarries and crushing photo expeditions

* Enjoy the practice of heavy stone quarries from the river

* Panoramic photo shoots of Jaflong valley

* Explore the health risk hard-working practice of stone crushing with environmental risk. We can visit several factories despite about 1500 hundred illegal stone crushing mills destroying the environment where workers life risks working.

* visit a tea garden where woman tea plugging scenery intriguing the photographers.

* explore tribal village to know their different way of lives along the valley.

* Overnight sleeper train journey to Chittagong. 

 

Day-8: Chittagong ship breaking yard, fish Bazar & peoples practice

* Enjoy the practice of Fish Bazar control system in the Country’s largest wholesale sea fish market

* Photography of ship breaking yards on a boat trip around pristine beach

*Aluminum cookware from Scrap Aluminum with health risk peoples way of lives

* Salt refinery and processing factories etc.

Overnight in hotel Alina (3-star)       

Overnight in hotel Agrabad (4-star)

Overnight in hotel Peninsula Chittagong( 5-star)

 

Day-9:  CHITTAGONG TO COX’S BAZAR BY LUXURY BUS (151KM)

Early morning AC luxury bus journey to Cox’s Bazar, the day around the sacred landscape of Bangladesh where the hills dip into the sea and enjoy sea fisherman generation owned practices.

* In the afternoon return to Cox’s bazaar marine drive to sunset fisherman beach at the sacred landscape of Cox’s Bazar where the hills meet the sea. In the evening leave Cox’s Bazar.

* Enjoy the golden rays of sunset over the silvery sands beach where hundreds of moon shaped fisherman boats increase beauty of sacred landscape.

* There are weekly betel nut market if suit your travel period then explore the given culture of most chaotic wholesale betel nuts Bazar.

 

Day-10: COX’S BAZAR PHOTOGENIC harbor & dry fishing zone adventure

* In the morning photogenic areas of Cox’s Bazar where typical fisherman activities in the harbor always attracts photographers. The most attractive are fisherman unloads fishes and drying fish process etc.

* Enjoy traditional boat building and repairing zone

* catch afternoon domestic flight to Dhaka

 

* Overnight stay in hotel grace 21 ( 3-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Marino royal ( 4-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Regency ( 5-star )

 

Day-11: DHAKA TO BOGRA BY CAR / MICROBUS

Early morning started drive towards north of Bangladesh, on the way stop for photo session at the different place to visit like pottery village, paddy harvesting or some other photogenic interest.

* You will visit a village in Bogra where famous Yogurt making to sale countrywide.

Overnight in hotel sieshta ( 3-star)

Overnight in Naz Garden 4-star)

Overnight in M<omo inn Resort ( 5-star)

 

Day-12: spicy colors of Bangladesh and unstable grounds of thousand farmers

*Enjoy the beauty of woman picking by hands from millions of red chilies are sun-dried in the fields.

* An expeditions through guided interaction in the lands of River for understanding the bonds between the peoples & unstable lands of river and their adaptation through adverse effects on lives due to changes the nature.

* In the afternoon, started return private vehicle journey to Dhaka.

 

Overnight in hotel studio 21 (3-star)

Overnight in hotel Fars & resort (4-star)

Overnight in Holiday inn or Pan pacific ( 5-star)

 

Day-13: SPRING FESTIVAL PHOTO EXPEDITIONS

The spring festival also known as Pahela Falgun, is a exciting annual celebration of the first day of spring, marking the end of winter and the beginning of new blooms in life. It has cultural importance due to 1^st human civilized peoples of Narsingdi started this annual congregation with mud bathing festival before 300 years, symbolizing rejuvenation, renewal, and the triumph of light over darkness. The festival is celebrated with cultural performances, music, and the exchange of colors within millions of festival mood peoples.

Overnight stay in hotel grace 21 ( 3-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Marino royal ( 4-star )

Overnight stay in hotel Regency ( 5-star )

 

 Day-14: Departure. Fly to your destination.

 

Price per Person: USD. 1700 ( 3-star hotel )

Price per Person: USD. 2100 ( 4-star hotel )

Price per Person: USD. 2500 ( 5-star hotel )

 

Price Includes:                  

* All domestic air tickets,

* All sight-seeing and cruise by private vehicles and boats

* All food during your stay in Bangladesh

* All accommodation according to your  chosen category

* accompanied guide for the cultural photographic expeditions.

Remarks:

• Photo expeditions itinerary can be changes
• Sylhet to Chittagong sleeper train is necessary but if not available although we highly importance to purchase then we arrange private AC transport for Chittagong
• We serve all meals from reputed local restaurant because your hotel restaurant price with tax and Vat for which we savor quality restaurant food.