Trip to Ganges – Brahmaputra Delta

Trip to Ganges – Brahmaputra Delta

Dhaka, Barisal, Bagerhat UNESCO & Sundarbans Day Trip (04 N/05D)

The land of Bangladesh is primarily composed of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest delta on Earth, which displays a pronounced flatness and is predominantly composed of fertile alluvial soil. This sprawling region, born from the sediments of the mighty Himalayas and deposited by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers, offers the country its primarily agricultural character. In contrast to the overall flatness, the deltaic region is intricately crisscrossing rivers, streams, and canals, creating a network of waterways that facilitate transportation, irrigation, and unexplored river life. We have designed a special program to travel the entire route to experience an off-beaten route of adventuring the best of Bangladesh!

On this tour, we tried to cover the entire route from Dhaka to travelling towards the south to most of the southwest covering all three big rivers Ganges – Brahmaputra – and Meghna.

Day 01: River Journey to Barisal & Floating Gypsy Village (B)

Meet at your Hotel or Residence and transfer to the boat station (Sadarghat or Hasnabad) and board the ship towards Barisal the day's activity includes -

• Dhaka to Elisha is the popular day route for launch or ferry boats. We will book a private cabin with an attached toilet for clients to enjoy the river journey. The boat starts at 8:00 am from Dhaka and you will enjoy four hours of cruise crossing all the mighty rivers Padma/ Ganges, Meghna, Sondha and at around noon arrive at Bhola Elisha ghat.
• Upon arrival, Bhola disembarked and transferred to Veduriya ferry ghat (10km). Upon arrival cross the river by ferry boat.
• Visit the largest floating gipsy fisherman village on the way! Living here on small boats with families for generations, it is one of the less-known communities in Bangladesh.
• Later transfer to Barisal town by car and overnight in Barisal city.

Day 02: Floating Market - Backwater Trip with Barisal sightseeing (B)

Today, early in the morning, we will start towards binary para to start the boat trip to explore the land of rivers and their everyday life,   the activities include –

• Upon arrival at Banoripara boat station, board our engine boat for a backwater floating market tour. This open-engine boat with chairs and a tea–coffee facility gives a quick start to the day with packet breakfast or breakfast on the boat in the floating market!
• The cruise through the river and the number of small canals are one of the main highlights of the tour. In this region, life is always on the water. In the morning going to the market, you will experience the everyday life of locals going to the market, coming to the river for cleaning works, weaving hands from home, farmers bringing crops by boat to the markets, wooden bridges and fruit or vegetable orchards, and many more.
• The floating market is more than 200 years old tradition and every week on different days in places the vegetable markets, the rice market, boat market. The markets begin early in the morning between 07 am to 10:30 am. Farmers bring all their crops by wooden boat to do their buy and selling. At around 50 – 200 boats come to do their trading. After a brief tour, we will go to one of the Bazar buy our breakfast, and enjoy the breakfast on the boat.
• We will show you the floating vegetable gardens, due to a shortage of land local farmers grow crops in shallow rivers with their local techniques. It is one of the unique ways of agriculture getting popular in the watery areas. We will have lunch in a local restaurant or our boatman house and later transfer to Banari para.
• Afternoon we will drive back to Barisal and visit the beautiful Mia Bari mosque on the way. It is a beautiful mugul blend of architecture and later back to the hotel and overnight.

Day 03: Bagerhat UNESCO Heritage sites & Sundarbans ECO village (B, D)

The morning after breakfast, check out and drive to Mongla by road. On the way to Mongla, we will stop at the Bagerhat Mosque city a UNESCO world heritage site dated 15^th AD and the visits include –

• On the way, we will also visit the Bagerhat Mosque city, A UNESCO World Heritage site The Mosque City of Bagerhat was named by Forbes as one of the 15 lost cities of the world.
• The most impressive building complex is the Sixty Pillar Mosque, however, UNESCO also includes several other buildings among its unique monuments, including the tomb of Khan Jahan Ali. First, we start our visit to 60 Dome mosque considered the most impressive Islamic monument in Southeast Asia, 09 dome mosque, the shrine of Khan Jahan Ali, Reza khoda mosque, Zinda Pir mosque & Hindu Memorial Kodla Math,
• Later we will go for an hour's drive to Mongla, board an engine boat and we will drive to our eco-village to stay, enjoy the natural beauty of river life and nature, upon arrival transfer to the hotel and check in to the eco-resort
• Evening we will walk to a restaurant and enjoy the traditional Bangla dinner, if you arrive earlier, we will give some basic cooking classes. After having dinner back to the hotel and overnight.

Day 04: Sundarbans Day trip, Dolphin watch & village life (B, D)

Early in the morning, we will transfer you to board the Sundarbans cruising boat for a daylong boat tour and the day plan is –

• Early morning we will take a country boat inside the forest to enjoy the silence of the forest. You we take some small canals to inside the forest and visit it from inside.
• Back to the hotel, breakfast and take the motor boat towards the forest office Karamgol forest station: we will enjoy the cruise of forest and village life and upon arrival; we will go for a walk inside the forest. You will the diversity of the mangrove forest and some wildlife.
• Then we will cruise towards the fisherman's village to visit. Fishing is one of the main professions in Sundarbans and around half a million people are involved in fishing especially small fish, crabs, shrimps etc. We will visit the village and learn the traditional way of living.
• Later we will start cruising through very interesting canals where one side is forest, one side villages with nice views till to reach our eco-cottage. On the way, we will also stop at a dolphin hotspot to see the dolphins. This is one of the popular spots and you will see the dolphins jumping around your boat.
• Later in the afternoon we will visit the local village and understand the local village life. Overnight in Sundarbans.

Day 05: Otter fishing, Ganges River, Buddhist shrine & Dhaka back (B, L)

The morning after breakfast, we will have a gentle cruise with Tom Mongla, upon arrival transfer to the car and drive to Dhaka, on the way we will visit-

• We will drive to Norial to visit the Otter fishermen villages. One of the remote villages where some villagers still practice fishing with the help of wild otters. Upon arrival at the village, you will get a warm greeting from the villagers and we will go and meet the fishermen to go with them for fishing in the river.
• We will continue driving towards Dhaka by crossing the longest 7 km bridge above the Ganges River. After crossing, we will take you to a viewpoint to see the bridge and river, and later traditionally try the national fish hilsha!
• On the way back to Dhaka, stop to visit the ruins of Atisah Dipanker (one Buddhist scholar), upon arrival in Dhaka, visit the biggest slam of Dhaka korai slam.
• Transfer to hotel and overnight.

Our price includes:

• 04 nights - stay in hotels with 3-star, 4-star, mentioned category
• All Breakfast is buffet style in the Hotel or resort, and other food (Lunch or Dinner) as per the itinerary mentioned in the tour plans with (B- Breakfast, L – Lunch, D- Dinner)
• Locally arranged cultural /musical/performance
• Special permit for Sundarbans forest
• All transfers, tours and sightseeing tours are conducted in trailers with air conditioning (A/C Sedan Car [for 01 - 02 pax]; A/C Toyota Micro Bus {for 03 -05 Pax }, Toyota Grand cabin {for 06 -08 Pax } & tourist bus {for 09 -12 Pax }
• Services English speaking guide (accompanying)
• All road taxes, the cost of parking, petrol, local charges & entry tickets.

The Above prices do not include:

• Costs of a personal nature - such as gratuities, laundry service, call on the phone/fax, alcoholic drinks, charges for the use of the camera/camcorder to the Museum, medical costs, any insurance coverage, etc.
• Any lunch and Dinner is included in the tour plan except the mentioned ones.
• Any other services not mentioned in the paragraph "enabled"
• Our offer is valid only for the period specified in the program

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