Tour To Old Dhaka and Sonargoan

Our guide and driver will pick you at 7 am from your hotel/residence and start driving for Old Dhaka immediately.

Visit Dhaka university area including Curzon hall, TSC are, Central Shahid minar and round within the Dhaka university perimeter. The University of Dhaka is the oldest university in modern Bangladesh. It is the largest public research university with a student body of 33,000 and a faculty of 1,800 

Continue driving to Sadarghat River Station. This is the main river port in Dhaka and one of the largest river stations in South Asia. Passenger ferries leave for southern part of Bangladesh from here to all over the absolute southern region of Bangladesh.

Enjoy a boat ride on a row boat at Dhaka’s busy Buriganga river. This river is a live and vibrant place full of activities. You’ll see hundreds of row boats crossing people in two sides of the river, small vendors selling goods on their boats, passenger and cargo ferries passing by.

Visit Ahsan Manzil (Pink Palace) – a beautiful and well-maintained palace from the colonial period which was home of the most influential family in Dhaka. This is another most 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 raised in both side 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.

Lunch at a local restaurant or another option grave some packet lunch and have those in the car.

 Visit Sadar Bari – a beautiful rajbari (palace) built-in 1901 inside which is located the Folk Arts and Crafts Museum full of folk arts and handicrafts from the 17th century onwards followed by a visit to the adjacent new museum building of folk arts. 

Visit the ruined city Panam Nagar. Constructed between end of 18th century and beginning of the 19th century, this tiny settlement consists of a sole street, lined with a number of 50 mansions built by wealthy Hindu traders, unrestrained during the divider between India and Pakistan when the landowners fled to India. This is a highlight of Bangladesh Old Capital Tour.

 Heading back to Dhaka and drop to your hotel/residence. End of the tour.