Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh)

Chittagong Chittagong, the second largest city of Bangladesh and a busy seaport, is a good vacation spot. Its green hills, forests and sea-beaches attract holiday makers. Described by the famous Chinese traveller Hiuan Tsang (7th century AD) as "a sleeping beauty emerging from mist and water" and given the nickname of Porto Grande by the 16th century Portuguese seafarers, Chittagong remains true to both descriptions even today. Many of the heavy, ...
...of interest in and around Chittagong include shrines of a dozen Muslim saints including Hazrat Byazid Bostami, Shahi Jame Mosque, Chandpura Mosque, Sitakunda Hindu and Buddhist tem les, Ethnolo ical Museum, Chitagong is also famous for Lakes and Tribes, Foyz Lake is one of the most beautiful Lake the chitgong has, and also its famous Rangamati Lake atract peoples from all over the world moving from one island to another by the hand cfafted boats ...

Taz101 19.07.2000 · Read full review
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