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Small country, absurd variety — mangrove forest, the longest beach on earth, tea hills and cloud-level ridges, all within a day of each other.
Bangladesh is compact enough that you can wake up in a mangrove channel and go to sleep in a tea estate two days later. These are the places we send travellers most often, with an honest account of what each one is like, when to go, and what the paperwork involves.
Khulna DivisionThe largest mangrove forest on earth, and the only one where tigers swim between islands. Three nights on a live-aboard boat is the way to see it.
Chattogram DivisionThe longest natural sea beach in the world — 120 kilometres of unbroken sand, best experienced away from the crowded main strip.
Sylhet DivisionThe tea capital of Bangladesh: rolling green estates, seven-layer tea, rainforest trails at Lawachara and the easiest slow days in the country.
Chattogram DivisionThe highest and wildest of the Chittagong Hill Tracts: cloud-level viewpoints, Marma and Mro villages, and the country’s best trekking.
Chattogram DivisionA lake town in the hills, built around the vast Kaptai reservoir, with hanging bridges, boat villages and Chakma culture.
Chattogram DivisionThe only coral island in Bangladesh: clear water, coconut palms and a strict seasonal visitor cap that you must plan around.
Dhaka DivisionA medieval capital an hour from Dhaka, where a single street of abandoned merchant mansions has been left to the banyan trees.
Dhaka DivisionMughal forts, a pink riverside palace, a mosque covered in Japanese china, and the busiest river port in the country — most of it inside three square kilometres of Old Dhaka. Two days, done on foot and by rickshaw.
Rajshahi DivisionThe largest Buddhist monastery south of the Himalayas and the oldest city site in Bangladesh, an hour apart in the northern plains. One UNESCO World Heritage Site, one 2,500 year old capital, both doable in two days from Bogura.
Rajshahi DivisionSultanate stone mosques and Bengal’s densest temple town, strung along one route through Rajshahi, Naogaon, Natore and Chapai Nawabganj. Choto Sona, Darasbari, Kusumba, Puthia and the Dighapatia palace in three unhurried days.
Tell us how long you have and what you like — forest, coast, hills, history — and we will put together a route that works with the season, the permits and your flights.
