Backwater trip to Barishal

The tour will start at 7 am in the morning depending on the  your hotel location. Visiting  the backstreets and bazaars of New & Old Dhaka will be the main attractions of the first day of the tour  including Kawran Bazar, Tejgaon Railway Station, Swarighat, Chawk Bazar, Islampur Road, and Shakhari Bazar. Short boat ride on river hyper busy Buriganga and visit sounding of the river if possible village market on the other side of the river before embarking a traditional ferry in Sadarghat River Station at around 6 pm for an overnight journey to Barisal.

Leaving the boat at Barisal in the early morning around 5.30 am, and transfer to your hotel. After check-in, and freshen up, drive to a remote place in Barisal on a three wheeler Tuk-Tuk . Upon arrival you’ll embark at our waiting country boat, and start cruising immediately toward a floating market or other interesting place depending on the day of the week. These floating markets start around 7 am and finish within 9 am in the morning. And this is why we start the days early in this tour. Breakfast will be served on the boat procured from the local market. Being a very remote place where no descent restaurant is available, this will mainly be bread and some fruits. You continue cruising whole day in the rivers and small canals in Barisal and visit a floating market where they bring everything to sell by boat which is full of activities and perfect for photography. Goods on these markets are mainly sold on wholesale from farmers to resellers. We’ll buy some seasonal local fruits from a local market for lunch such delicious jack-fruit(If you can eat those !!!), watermelon, lichee, mango, coconut, and continue cruising. You’ll also visit few bazaars on land, stop on a village and have tea while meeting with local people and exchange culture with them, and visit a factory yard where they make fiber from coconut which is used as a raw material to make carpet and rope. Return to our starting place around 3.00 pm, transfer to Barisal by tuk-tuk, and retire for the day. 

Today our activity will be a bit similar to yesterday Breakfast on a restaurant at Barisal at 7 am, and transfer to a remote place in Barisal by Tuk-Tuk (Three wheeler CNG). Board on our waiting boat upon arrival, and start cruising immediately. Today you will be taken to some other places to visit through the narrow canals and rivers. You’ll float through the backyards of people’s house and see their lifestyle while they welcome you and greet you from the land, see a floating guava market, visit numerous guava gardens where a big percentage of Bangladesh’s guavas are grown, visit kids and teachers on a school where you can talk with them, and exchange culture. Locally bought fruits will be served for lunch on boat as yesterday with some bread procured from local source. Continue cruising through the narrow canals and rivers. Next attraction for today will be visiting a timber market where  you will see logs dumped beside the river spread in miles long places, carried away on the river very slowly with the help of a boat, loading and unloading them manually with the help of tide. Also visit numerous saw mills where they saw the logs according to the needs of the customers located on the bank. Return to our starting place around 3.00 pm. You’ll return to hotel in the afternoon and late check-out after freshen up for night long journey to return to Dhaka. Transfer to Barisal ferry station at 6 pm to embark on to passenger ferry to Dhaka. Overnight at Ferry (Sleeping Cabin).

You will arrive at Dhaka early in the morning around 5 am. Disembark from boat at 7 am, breakfast on a local restaurant, and drive toward Rupganj which will take roughly one hour plus journey time, an area famous for traditional weaving from the ancient period. Experience the Jamdani hand-weaving process. Interact with the master weavers and learn about the process of making Jamdani. You also can buy some to those finished product as souvenir ob Bangladesh. Drive back to Dhaka and visit some flagship stores where the finest quality of Jamdani and other handicraft products are sold, including Aarong and Jatra. Drop you at your hotel/residence and end of the tour with unique experience of a trip to biggest delta of the earth.