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Bangladesh in pictures – the northwest

We can talk and write and even more talk and write more… A photo is a photo, no more and no less. It can only reproduce the original conditionally, but it says more than a thousand words. More pictures and news on our Facebook-presentation and on our YouTube channel.

TETULIA – PLACE OF DREAMS & DREAMY SURROUNDINGS


Remote, in the far north-west, Tetulia offers apart from picturesque surroundings, settlements, bamboo groves, temples and tea plantations, a giant from afar – the Kangchenjunga…

CITY OF HAPPINESS? – RANGPUR


Long before our time as Ranggapur „City of (private) Happiness“, the city is mainly known today for the production of Dhurries and Bidis and the Carmichael College and the Tajhat Palace from the beginning of the 20th century…

RAJSHAHI – THE CITY OF SILK & ITS SURROUNDINGS


The significance and the former strength of the city are now reflected only in their name. For “Raj” (Sanskrit) and “Shahi” (Persian) mean both “royal” and “kingdom”...

GAUR, GAUD OR LAKHNAUTI?


In this area you will find an immense collection of historically valuable mosques and palaces, more than anywhere else in Bangladesh (Bagerhat except). Gaur was once a trading metropolis…

MUCH MORE THAN THE KANTAJI TEMPLE – DINAJPUR


To discover there is a lot – if nothing “earth-shattering”. The old town of Dinajpurs spreads a certain charm, but the main reason to visit the city is probably the beautiful Kantaji Temple…

PUTHIA – A BEAMING HIGHLIGHT


The enchanting little village is literally bursting at the seams because of the abundance of palaces and temples and is undoubtedly a highlight of every Bangladesh tour…

ON THE TRACKS OF THE KINGS OF RAJSHAHI – NATORE


The large, elegant and mysterious palace complex of Natore, with its imaginative gardens, ponds and Hindu temples, was the residence of the royal family of Rajshahi…

SOMAPURA MAHAVIHARA – UNESCO WORLD CULTURE


The remains of the Buddhist monastery at Paharpur – in the Naogaon district – are the largest of its time and the most important cultural and study center south of the Himalayas of the entire subcontinent…

THE OLDEST SETTLEMENT OF BENGAL – MAHASTHANGARH


In fact, this is the oldest settlement of Bengal so far. The village of Mahasthan in the district of Bogra offers the remains of the ancient city of Pundranagara or Paundravardhanapura…

MYMENSINGH – RURAL IDYLL AT BRAHMAPUTRA


The situation after the arrival of the EIC in Mymensingh was once said: “The Nawbabs eat and sleep. The English hoard and ship money. The Bengal scream and take the devil at all”…

EVERY BRICK CLEARED IN GHEE – HATIMKURUL NAVARATNA TEMPEL


Between 1704 and 1720 the temple was built, near Sirajganj and the village Navaratnapara close to Hatimkurul. Legends tell that each brick was cleaned in ghee before it was wallowed…

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