Very much under the travel radar, this small, lowlying country carved first from India, then from Pakistan has a steadily growing tourism industry, offering impressive archaeological sites; appealing beaches; Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim monasteries and prime ecotourism, especially in its Sundarbans
Group photo: Shafiul Islam Shaikot; cover photo: Kazi Asadullah Al Emran
An introduction to Bangladesh and 6 of its top destinations
Shafiul Islam Shaikot For sheer human energy, few countries can match this one. Dense, river-laced, green, noisy, resilient, and often misunderstood, Bangladesh sits tucked into the northeastern corner of the Indian Ocean, almost enveloped by India, with a shorter border to Myanmar and a coastline on the Bay of Bengal. Long dismissed abroad as a place of floods, poverty, repression, and exploitative garment factories, Bangladesh is increasingly emerging as something more interesting: one of…
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