Cultural & natural aspects of River expeditions – DHAKA – KUAKATA – BARISAL – BAGERHAT & THE SUNDARBANS
Category: cultural built heritage, natural heritage, the lost civilization, peoples acts of traditions, rivers of life, popular beach & wildlife.
These trip cover the world largest delta of Ganges – Meghna & Brahmaputra rivers on a river expeditions in between Barisal, Kuakata, Bagerhat & the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
This river expeditions insight into the wilderness beauty of rivers where every peasant are paddlers for fishing & farming in the low lying lands. This trip focuses on understanding the earliest civilization peoples acts of traditional way of life during the backwater cruise to the remaining floating markets of Barisal. The peoples typical acts of trade on canoe boats & their orientation is most interesting to the foreign travelers.
These expeditions covered as above places:
v The rivers of life in the long waterways on the way to Kuakata beach where sunrise & sunset observe.
v Explore riverine natural beauties and mangrove forest by local boat
v Barisal backwater cruise to the peasants floating markets & their traditional way of life
v Cultural built World heritage sites ( Bagerhat city of Mosque )
v Natural World Heritage site – The Sundarbans Mangrove forest where Wildlife biodiversity &The Bengal Tiger represents the infinite value of Bangladesh.
v Cultural built heritage and peoples expressional of Dhaka city & remaining traditions in the trends of change.
Cultural aspects of River expedition’s itinerary:
Day-01: Welcome to Dhaka to check in 3-star or 4-star or 5-star hotels, if time permits visit key attractions of Dhaka.
Day-02: Full day Dhaka tour – the main activities are – morning traditional bazaar, cultural built structures, monuments, Museum & old Dhaka alleys, in the evening board into the ship cabin for an overnight cruise towards Patuakhali.
Day-03: Early in the morning drive to Kuakata beach, explore offshore island fisherman acts surrounded by wilderness beauty, sunset experience in the Kuakata beach, overnight in a 4-star hotel.
Day-04: Experience the sunrise on the beach, Kuakata to Barisal by private car or public bus journey. Check in Grand park (4-star) or 3-star hotel.
Day-05: drive for backwater cruise into the floating markets & experience the laidback traditional way of life, check in 4-star hotel for night stay.
Day-06: Early morning private ac vehicle journey towards Bagerhat, rest of the day visit medieval Bengal time built the city of Mosque at Bagerhat including the sixty domed Mosque ( World heritage site), continue on to Mongla for night stay.
Day-07: Mongla – Katka wildlife sanctuary
Join in the Sundarbans package tour from Mongla towards Katka Wildlife sanctuary by our 10 or 20 person accommodation facilities tourist, we stop at Chandpai Dolphin sanctuaries meanwhile our armed guard join in the trip, continue south through beautiful Sundarban forest, you may find wild animals on the way of cruise. At the end of the day cruise through Katka canal and wildlife watch from observation tower.
Day-08: Katka & Kachikhali wildlife Sanctuaries expeditions
The day will started at early morning for canal cruise to look the wildlife and bird species from close after having breakfast, an expeditions to the Tiger hill ( a place where often Tigers take their meal within close proximity of deer), we find more than hundreds of deer and wild boar under the Keora trees on the way to Tiger tracts, enjoy the stunning view of the Bay of Bengal aside the forest office.
Late in the afternoon enjoy the magnificent wildlife in the grassland overlooking from observation tower, In the grassland we may find deer, birds and many butterflies. A breathtaking green beach trails in between the blue Ocean & green untouched forest.
After having lunch late in the afternoon, walk around grazing field in search the existed herds of deer, before sunset kachikhali canal to have a look the wildlife & birds.
Enjoy BBQ dinner.
Day-09: Karamjal breeding center, Animal Park & watch dolphins before ending the cruise. A car drive towards Jessore for catching the evening flight back to Dhaka.
Day-10: airport drop to ends the tour.
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