Private 9-day photo tour in Bangladesh: vibrant festivals, traditional weaving, backwater markets, ship-breaking yards, tribal villages, cultural richness, expert guide included.
Private 9-day photo tour in Bangladesh: vibrant festivals, traditional weaving, backwater markets, ship-breaking yards, tribal villages, cultural richness, expert guide included.
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 typical way of trades, arts of attitudes and given culture in the rivers of lives intriguing the World photographers and philosophers.
Duration: 9 Days / 8 Nights
Location: Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong & Bandarban
* Dhaka & Around: New & old Dhaka photography Tour, Gabtoli area, Overnight Luxury ship journey.
* Traditional Weaving village expeditions
Barisal: Backwater trip to the Floating markets, River cruise through canal inside the villages, school, bazar, local crafts & typical village life.
Chittagong: Largest sea fish market, Ship-breaking yard Chittagong, Railway Station, Streets & Bazaars and Potenga Sea beach.
Bandarban: Tribal People way of living, villages & bazaars, Indigenous weaving village, Golden Temple, Hatia Bhanga Tripura village, Shailaprapat, Bawm tribal weaving. Murong Tribal villages.
Arrival at Dhaka Airport, our guide will pick up & transfer to the hotel for rest, enjoy dinner nearby hotel. Overnight stay in Fars hotel & resort (4-star hotel)
* At 6:00 AM, we take you to the wholesale flower market at Shahbagh after that immersed into the typical market place of Dhaka at Kawran Bazar where we experience the people’s culture in the Vegetables, chicken, fish market & local saloon etc.
* Experience the Bazar across the train line & peoples expression while train passing
* 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 Field Factory nearby.
* Drive to visit the typical slum houses beside Railway line. Walk through the line and experience their daily life.
* We’ll back to the hotel after dinner.
Overnight stay in Fars hotel & resort (4-star hotel)
* In the morning we’ll drive to Experience of batik fabric while they dyed in 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.
* Male and female day Lever unload the sands and coal from water transport at Kanchpur
* We’ll also drive nearby Jamdani sharee weaving village. Jamdani sharee are countries finest traditional fabrics is famous after legendary Muslin fabrics. We’ll see how two weaver involved in sewing over the traditional design of cotton & silk made fabrics. We’ll drive back to the hotel after having dinner.
Overnight stay in Fars hotel & resort ( 4-star hotel )
* Today 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.
* Photography of old Dhaka alleys and walk through narrow Street of Shakhari Bazar where Hindu communities all necessaries items are sold out in the shops.
* Stroll around Islampur – the city largest wholesale cloth & fabrics market.
* After having lunch, walk around wholesale red chilli & onion shop around Heritage buildings in the bank of Buriganga River.
* Dhaka River front at Sadarghat terminal where found several hundred canoe boat laden passengers crossing the rivers plying around gigantic ship.
* Experience the boat building and repairing activities and some ship parts making factories over there southern side of the Buriganga river
* Early in the morning on arrival at Barisal, disembark the ship and drive to Banaripara by car.
* Enjoy the backwater cruise to the vegetables floating market where hundred more pheasant boats laded their grains. Visit rice fields, fruit gardens, the floating timber market, and the bazaars. You will be amazed by the rustic charms when you meet typical village life. In the late afternoon, back to the hotel for rest. In the late evening, after having BBQ chicken with Nun, deck into the ship for an overnight luxury ship cruise back to Dhaka.
* Early in the morning arrive in Dhaka Sadarghat Launch terminal after a full night river cruise by Luxury ship. We will take you to Dhaka airport and flying toward Chittagong.
* Our guide will soon take you to the country’s largest wholesale sea fish market and photo shoot of fish verities and peoples expressions
* Stroll around traditional boat buildings & dry fish bazaars.
* After having lunch drive to sitakunda machinery shops, fisherman village & photography of ship breaking yard with tele-lens for the better shots while cruising near site of the yard.
Dinner & overnight stay in Chittagong hotel Agrabad.
* After having breakfast, start your drive toward Bandarban. Capture the beautiful hilly terrain of Bandarban hill tracts on the way. Stop the car at any tribal Bazar or village for the photography.
* Check into the resort and stroll around the hill-tribes town and short boat trip on Sangu River to have a look the emerging culture of different ethnic living there.
* Late afternoon, Hike down to the Tripra tribal village to have a look the traditional way of living and photography of their beaded necklace making (countries earliest crafts for trading)
Overnight stay in Bandarban venus resort
After an early breakfast, 1-2 hours’ drive over the hilly road for photography of Murong village to have a look the traditional way of different lives! On our way get into the Bawm Village in Faruk Para and souvenir shops at Shailapropat cascading point.
* after having lunch drive back to Chittagong airport for catching last flight back to Dhaka.
* Airport transfer to nearby hotel.
Your trip will be finished today by Dhaka airport drop.
Thanking You
Abdullah Al- Mamun
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