Dhaka City Tour

Our guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel/residence. During the working day, we pick up our guests a bit early at 8 am but on the weekend Friday/Saturday or on any govt. holiday we pick you up at 9.00 am. Our car will be heading toward the National Parliament building just after picking you up from your location. 

Visit outside of the National Assembly Building (Parliament Building) which is one of the largest legislative buildings in the world and the finest piece of architecture in Dhaka, designed by world-famous US architect Louis Kahn. For its blending of modernism and context, symbolic importance, and the geometric forms that the building It is one of the architectural masterpieces of modern days as considered one of Kahn's greatest works and a milestone in 20th-century architecture because of its monumental scale. This magnificent architecture is famous for the composition of simple geometric shapes, which creates a harmonious composition and got the recognition of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1989.

Visit the Dhaka University area including Curzon hall, TSC, Central Shahid Minar, and round within the Dhaka University perimeter. Among them Curzon Hall is the most beautiful one because of the great mixture of European and Mughal styles as the British Crown, Curzon Hall has one of the best structural designs in Dhaka. It has got the Mughal symbolic forms which have arches and domes. It has got an interesting historical background in that till 1911 the building was used by Dhaka College. But after Dhaka University was established in 1921, the hall was taken by the University and still is being used for education purposes by the university. Now it is one of the tourist places in the country and it fascinates people at home and abroad.

Continue driving to Sadarghat River Station. This is the main river port in Dhaka and one of the largest river stations in South Asia. Sadarghat is used by hundreds of small boats and gigantic overnight passenger ferries mainly for communication with the southern districts of the country. Also, Cargo barges use Sadarghat as a loading and unloading point. This bustling place has become a large daily market for fruits, vegetables, and miscellaneous items carried to and from different parts of Bangladesh. Numerous retail and wholesale shops can be found on both sides of the road which makes this place must must-visit place for visitors. 

Enjoy a boat ride on a rowboat at Dhaka’s busy Buriganga river. This river is an alive and vibrant place full of activities. You’ll see hundreds of rowboats crossing people in two sides of the river, small vendors selling goods on their boats, and passenger and cargo ferries passing by. [Click here to view the video of this river port.]

Visit Ahsan Manzil (Pink Palace) – a beautiful and well-maintained palace from the colonial period which was home to the most influential family in Dhaka. This is another popular tourist place in Dhaka city.

Walk on Hindu Street (Shankharia Bazar). This is a unique street – the center of Hindu culture and community in Old Dhaka. Old buildings on both sides of the street, which is full of jewelry shops, local musical instrument shops, Hindu bridal shops, kite shops, cookery shops, temples, rickshaws, and people continue walking till the end Tati Bazar.

Take a rickshaw and visit star mosque a beautiful mosque fully decorated with star motifs, and Armenian Church an orthodox church built by Armenians in Dhaka.

From the star mosque, we will start walking or taking a rickshaw to come to Bonglshal.

Lunch in a local restaurant with some popular Bangladeshi food. 

After lunch, we will head toward Lalbagh fort beautiful fort from the Mughal period, a key tourist attraction in Dhaka city.

After Lalbagh fort we will visit Dhakeshary temple

Get into our waiting car and start driving toward your hotel/residence and drop you tanking you for taking our tour. End of the Old Dhaka Tour.