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Rangamati Hill District is the largest district of Bangladesh, about 77 kilometers away from Chittagong. It's one of the main tourist spot of Bangladesh for its rich natural resources like green hills, lakes and rivers also for location, tribal people, tribal home made textiles, jewellery etc. Without going there you will not understand why people keep saying beautiful Bangladesh.
Rangamati (রাঙ্গামাটি) is one of the the most beautiful place I have ever seen in Bangladesh. Simply amazing!! Clouds, people, lake, natural beauty, boats, hanging bridge, hill tracks and lots more. I can't describe them all, I'll try to write few things related to our journey. Starting with clouds. They are like clouds of heaven. I never see such beautiful clouds anywhere in Bangladesh.
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Chittagong Hill Track was divided by 3 hill district called Rangamari, Khagrachari and Bandarban. The former name of Chittagong Hill Track was Karpas Mahal. In 1981 Bandarban divided and in 1983 Khagrachari divided from Chittagong Hill Track.
The total area of Rangamati is 6116.13 sq km. The total population is divided into Bengali-es and eleven tribes. Chakma, Marma, Tonchongya, Tripura, Murong, Bome, Khumi, Kheyang, Chak, Pankhoa, and Lusai. The majority of the people here are Chakma. The mixture of different religions, races, customs & cultures creates an interesting society in Rangamati. There is a Tribal Cultural Institute in Rangamati. It was established in 1978, in order to preserving, promoting and developing the tribal cultures of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region.
Tribal People of Rangamati
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| Tribal baby, Rangamati |
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The Hanging Bridge: Most of the people go there only to see the Hanging Bridge over Kaptai Lake. The 102 meter long bridge connects the two hills. This place is called Parjatan Complex consist of Motel, Auditorium, Park, Picnic spot and boat to explore Kaptai Lake. The bridge is submerged in the water of the lake for one or two months of the year. However, in the winter season visitors cross the bridge and have a picnic on the top of the hill.
The Parjatan Complex area only shows one percent of the total beauty. Some people go for boat riding over Kaptai Lake and visit different tourist spots. But still they miss something. What we did, we walked around the surrounding area of the Hanging Bridge and we saw some amazing views of the hill track ares. Specially the view of the Kaptai Lake from the top of the hill was mind blowing.
Summary:
Day 01: Explore the surrounding area of Hanging Bridge, Went to Rajban Bihar Buddhist temple by boat.
Day 02: Went to Barkal Hill Track and Shubhalang Waterfall by boat.
About my Rangamati Visit: I have visited Rangamati twice, 1st in 2012 and then 2013. We started from Dhaka by bus. Early morning we reached there. It was Thursday, 06th of September, 2012, I had some work to do in Rangalmati BTCL office. After the work we (with my friend Jakir) started exploring Rangamati. As usual first we went to the hanging bridge. We explored the surrounding area. We met locals, found a school, some tribal boys playing marble on the street, took tea from the local tea stall up on the hill tracks, bought some fruits and captured lot of pictures. There is a resting place on the hill tracks. You can see wide areas from there. Afternoon we came back to the place we started and plan to make our next move. We rented a boat from “Holiday More” and went to see the Rajban Bihar (Buddhist temple). On the way we saw some small hill tracks and small waterfalls. The beautiful Kaptai Lake, the villages and the clear blue sky with white clouds makes our trip simply special.
Next day we went to Barkal Hill Track and Shubhalang Waterfall. Subalong is under Barkal sub-district. We hired a boat from "Reserve Bazar Ghat".
You can also hire a boat from Tobolchora or Fire brigade ghat at 400 to
500 tk. It's about 6 km away from Rangamati, two hour distance. Shubhalang hill is about 580 m long and the water fall is about 45 m
long. It’s another top spot people must go to see. Lot’s of people come
here to take bath.
In 17th September, 2013 I have visited Rangamati again. That time we went to the Hanging Bridge and Rajban Bihar only.
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It was our bad luck that we didn't had much time to go all of that places. in this tour i liked Subhalang Waterfall spot.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. Another important thing we missed is the Tribal Cultural Institute And Museum.
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