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WWII Memorial Cemetery
This tear-inducing cemetery contains the graves of hundreds of soldiers from both Allied and Japanese forces who died on the Burma front. Many are inscribed with simple and powerful epitaphs of loss and love. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Bagerhat Museum
This small, neatly arranged museum, located within the grounds of the Shait Gumbad Mosque (admission is covered by the mosque entrance fee, and it’s open the same hours), contains relics from the surrounding area and is a good place to get your bearings before setting out to explor
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Museum of the Rajas
Mystic, poet and songwriter Dewan Hasan Raja Chowdhury (1854–1922) has become a Bengali folk-music legend, and this two-room museum, housed inside his former family home, contains memorabilia from his life, including some traditional Bengali musical instruments and a number of old
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Tribal Cultural Institute Museum
Has well-thought-out displays on the Adivasis of the Hill Tracts, including costumes, bamboo flutes, coins, silver-and-ivory necklaces and animal traps. There is also a map showing where the different people of the region live. Look out for the Marma and Chakma ‘books’ carved onto
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Finlay Tea Estate
The sprawling Finlay Tea Estate, just on the edge of Srimangal, seems less used to visitors, but it’s not normally a problem to wander a short way into the bushes and talk to the tea-pickers. Walk or cycle out of town on Srimangal–Bhanugach Rd and you’ll soon see the tea gardens st
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Pirgacha Mission
This Christian mission in the small Mandi settlement of Pirgacha has good value dorm beds in traditionally styled mud-walled buildings. Meals are available at very specific times (don’t be late!) with advance notice. The complex is run by an elderly American missionary, Father Home
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Divisional Museum
If you’ve got some time to kill before a boat or bus departure, the small collection of objects garnered from around Bagerhat and on display at the Divisional Museum should help pass half an hour or so. Opposite the Hotel Jalico is a large Hindu temple (Sir Iqbal Rd) dedicated to S
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Botanical Gardens
The shady, tranquil botanical gardens , stretch over 40 hectares and contain over 1000 species of local and foreign plants. It’s a nice respite from the city’s mass of humanity. In the distance you’ll see the Turag River.
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Tribal Cultural Academy
The only ‘sight’ in Birisiri, this small research museum is worth poking your head into. You may have to ask around to get someone to unlock the doors, but once you’re in you’ll find exhibits displaying the culture and traditions of local ethnic minorities such as the Garo. The mus
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Ronvijoypur Mosque
About 1.5km east of Shait Gumbad, and directly north of the road that leads to Mazhar Khan Jahan Ali, this splendidly chunky 15th-century mosque is singularly impressive. It contains the largest mosque dome in Bangladesh, spanning 11m and supported by 3m-thick brick walls. The mosq
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National Museum
The excellent National Museum, sprawling over several floors, begins with the geological formation of Bangladesh, whisks you through a rundown of the nation’s flora and fauna, saunters through a Buddhist and Hindu past, and brings you up to date with the War of Liberation and the c
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Kali Temple
The delightful architectural folly of Kali Temple is modelled on a Florentine dome (or at least a Bengali vision of an English adaptation of a Florentine dome) and is topped with blue-painted Hindu gods. The courtyard also doubles as a village school.The temple lies about 1km south
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Baldha Gardens
At the eastern end of Tipu Sultan Rd, and a block south of Hatkhola Rd, the Baldha Gardens in Wari provide a nice break from the rest of the sightseeing you’ll be doing in the area. The two walled enclosures, Cybele and Psyche, were once the private gardens of Narendra Narayan Roy,
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Halud Vihara
Other ruins dot the countryside here, but about 15km southwest of Somapuri Vihara, in the small village of Dwipganj, is the second-most impressive: Halud Vihara. The mound is about 30m wide and 7m high but is badly damaged, with bricks strewn across the village. Nevertheless, it’s
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Darasbari Mosque
Back on the main road, and about 1km beyond Sona Masjid, turn left down a lane signposted to Darasbari Mosque. About 500m along this lane you’ll come to this palace-like mosque built in 1470. It’s no longer an active mosque, and is largely in ruins – the domed roof collapsed some t
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Nine
On the western bank of the pond called Thakur Dighi, and a short walk from Mazhar Khan Jahan Ali, the recently repaired Nine-Domed Mosque is an impressive structure, with eight small domes on its roof surrounding one larger central dome. The mihrabs (niches) are embellished with te
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Star Mosque
This unusual mosque, with its striking mosaic decoration, dates from the early 18th century, although it has been radically altered. It was originally built in the typical Mughal style, with four corner towers. Around 50 years ago a local businessman financed its redecoration with
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Chota Katra
This dilapidated Mughal-era structure is about the oldest building in Dhaka, and searching for it among the high-walled, pinched alleyways of this part of the city is a highlight of a wander around Old Dhaka. Chota Katra, which dates from 1663, was a caravanserai for visiting merch
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Folk
Built in 1901, this stunning rajbari is an appropriate building for a folk-art museum . The building has two façades. The one facing the street, with steps leading down to the water and life-size English horsemen in stucco on either side, is one of the most picturesque in Banglades
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Bangladesh Tea Research Institute
The Bangladesh Tea Research Institute, or BTRI, isn’t a commercial estate as such but rather the scientific headquarters of Bangladeshi tea production. New strains of tea and new growing techniques are tried out here, and the staff are knowledgeable. There is also a production fact
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