Friendly planet
travel in Bangladesh
We operate guided travel in Bangladesh for family, couple,
lonely traveler, small group and group travel to promote Bangladesh tourism
since – 2010.
Sylhet and sreemangal
friendly planet nature travel in Bangladesh
Friendly travel
duration: 4 days / 3 nights
Mode of transport:
reserved micro bus / train and micro bus
places to cover:
srimangal tea planations, rubber plantation, rain forest, khasia and monipuri
tribes, madobpur dam, hum hum waterfalls and adventure walking in srimangal,
jafflong, tamabil, jointapur, shrines of shah jalal and shah poran ( rm)
Accommodation:
tea resort / Eco cottage or similar and sylhet 2 star hotel
The first day:
sreemangal and rainforest trekking.
The second day;
madobpur dam through majesty of green and garden and adventure walking to hum
hum waterfalls ,
The third day:
sreemangal to jafflong, sripur, jointapur, tamabil, shrines and overnight in sylhet.
The fourth Day:
sylhet to Dhaka
price per person for
foreign nationality include all cost and entry fee: BDT. 17,500 if run by 4
pax.
Feel free ask or e-mail:
Friendly planet travel Bangladesh
Hot line: +88 01758063505
" travel in bangladesh to the home of friendly people"...
Rangamati hill tribe
and hill lake cruise
Hill tribe and lake travel duration: 3 days / 4 nights
Mode of transport:
overnight a/c bus ( both way ) and reserved micro bus for sightseeing.
Places to cover:
rangamati sightseeing, chakma king
palace, museum, handicraft centre, boat trip to shuvolong waterfalls, a cruise
on kaptai lake
Accommodation: 2 star hotel accommodation for 2 nights
Price per person
include all cost and entry fee: BDT. 11,500 if run by 4 pax.
Sundarbans boat trip
based rocket steamer
Cruise duration:
4 nights / 4 days
Departure time:
06:00 PM from Dhaka and end time 09:00 pm from Khulna.
Mode of transport: rocket steamer, sundarbans cruising boat
and Volvo bus, car for transfer.
Places to cover:
kotka, kochikhali Tiger point and herbaria, karamjal Eco park.
Facilities of
accommodation: rocket steamer first class cabin and twin / couple sharing
bed in sundarbans boat cabin.
Facilities of Boat:
10 people capacity, 5 room, 2 toilet and a shower, sitting and dinning, out
looking seat from roof, guard and guide room, cooking shape, generator.
Travel itinerary:
Night-01: leave Dhaka by overnight rocket steamer cruise about
to Morrelgonj or hularhat.
Day-01: transferred by car to Mongla, en-route visit sixty
domed world heritage mosque, cruise after on board.
Day-02: kotka, beach activities, jungle walking, bird
watching trip in the canal.
Day-03: kachikhali tiger forest adventure, canal cruise for
bird watching, wlking into the deep forest, cruise back to Mongla then Khulna
for oovernight journey to Dhaka by Volvo bus.
Reserved tour Price per person: BDT. 37,500 if run by 3
people only if join other visitors in the adventure then price per person will
be less 4,000 Tk.
10 people price per adults = > 20,500 include all cost
for foreign nationality
Friendly planet travel
Bangladesh – sundarban tour
Sundarbans - World Largest Delta
The two large rivers, Ganges 2,510 km. (1,560 miles) and
Brahmaputra 2,900 km. (1,800 miles), are born in the snowy peaks of the
Himalayas. On the last lap of their long journey, just before they enter the
Bay of Bengal and merge with the oceans, they roam through the plains of
Bangladesh and West Bengal (India) creating the largest delta in the world.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta covers an area of 80,000 sq.
km. (30,800 sq. miles) and comprises of 54 inhabited and 48 uninhabited
islands, mangrove forests, swamps and mud flats. The delta is approximately 350
km. (220 miles) wide at the Bay of Bengal.
The Sunderban region encompasses 10,262 sq. km. (3,950 sq.
miles) of reserved mangrove forests. 4,262 sq. km. (1640 sq. miles) of the
mangrove forests are in India (West Bengal). The remaining 6000 sq. km. (2310
sq. miles) are in Bangladesh.
Sundarban is the only largest mangrove forest in the world
which is home of the tiger. UNESCO documented the Sunderbans as a World Heritage Site. Commercial activity
is not permitted in the core area.
Sundarbans is criss-crossed by a complicated maze of rivers,
tributaries, streams, channels, estuaries and creeks. 70% of the area is
covered by saline brackish water. The environment is made more aggressive by
the diurnal rise and fall of water caused by the tidal waves.
Some facts about the
Sundarbans Tigers
· The tiger is the top predator of both aquatic and global
eco-systems in the Sundarbans.
· A tiger requires 7.5 kilograms of meat every day.
· About 17.5% of food for the tiger comes from aquatic
sources.
· They drink saline water, perhaps the only example of this
kind in the world.
· A wild tiger requires 10 sq. km. of area to roam around.
· The female takes care of her cubs for as long as 18
months. The males are usually tolerant of their own cubs. But may kill the
offspring of other males.
· During the two peak tidal periods of February and May,
territorial markings by tigers in Sundarban get obliterated by the daily tides.
During that time, tigers are often found swimming across rivers and creeks,
crossing up to 8 km. wide rivers.
· During the paddy ripening time, tigers enter several kms.
inside the paddy fields and prey on the cattle there.
· The easiest quarries of man-eating tigers/victims are wood
cutters, fishermen and honey collectors.
· Fishermen are the worst sufferers.
· But only 5% of the tigers are man eaters.
The water in the numerous rivers, creeks and canals rises
and falls in tune with the tides. Salt water from the sea rushes in and out -
twice every day - making the region one of the most difficult terrains to live
in. Most of the creatures here - both animals and plants - land and aquatic -
have developed unique adaptations to survive in this peculiar environment.
Throughout the mangrove forests, at the water’s edge, you
will find the unique mud skipper, a fish that walks on land and even climbs
trees. Its fins have evolved into two small arm-like flippers which permit it
to move about on land. There are numerous blood-red fiddler crabs and other
crustaceans.
The mangrove trees have developed strange aerial roots and
unique propagation mechanism.
Sundarban has 84 species of mangrove and mangrove-related
plants.
Wildlife
Royal Bengal tigers, leopards, rhinoceros, wild hen, wild
cats, spotted deer, hog deer, barking deer and monkeys in the Sundarban. number of aquatic mammals - the Ganges
dolphin, several species of reptiles - Olive Ridley turtle, the river terrapin,
estuarine crocodile (the largest crocodile in the world), monitor lizard, water
monitor, chameleons; and a varied assortment of snakes - King cobra, common
cobra, Banded krait, Russell’s Viper, Python, Green Whip Snake and a number of
water snakes. There are skipping frogs, common toads and tree fogs. The
numerous species of fishes include the Saw fish, Butter fish, Electric Rays,
Silver Carp, Star Fish, Common Carp, several species of sharks, prawns and
shrimps.
There are over 270 species of birds including plenty of
water birds - Asian open bill stork, black-necked stork, greater adjutant
stork, egrets, herons, swamp francolin, white ibis, white-collared kingfisher,
black-capped kingfisher, brown-winged kingfisher, spotted billed pelican.
There are also a number of birds of prey - white-bellied
sea-eagle, grey-headed fishing eagle, brahmini kite, herring gull, osprey,
Pallas’s fish eagle, peregrine falcon, Oriental hobby, northern eagle owl and
brown fish owl.
The most important trees are the mangrove trees. The name
Sunderban meaning Sundari forest comes from two words Sundari, other species of
trees. Genwa which has flaming red leaves in April and May. The Kankara with
its crab like red flowers. Khalsi with its dazzling display of yellow blooms.
People who live in the Sunderban area are poor and live
below the poverty line. They lack access to proper roads and health care
facilities.
Therefore, in spite of the presence of the tigers, many of
whom are man eaters and sometimes kill animals and humans, the local villagers
venture into the forests to collect honey, fishing or to cut wood.
The local villagers worship Bonbibi (the local forest deity)
and Dakshin Ray (a demon who is believed to assume the shape of a tiger) to
protect them from the tigers. Tigers generally attack from the rear. For this
reason, while moving inside the forests, the villagers wear bright colored face
masks behind their heads in the hope that the tiger will be fooled by this
trick. In spite of this, sometimes they are attacked by tigers.
How to reach Sundarban forest:
Maximum tour operators offer sundaarban tour From Dhaka get
to Khulna or Mongla to board into the cruising boat for adventure wildlife
forest.
- Dhaka to Khulna either by by a/c Volvo bus or train to started cruise to sundarbans from Khulna.
- Dhaka to Jessore by air ( United, Regent airways ) then transfer by car either to khukna or Mongla if cruise started from Mongla ( sundarbans begin from Mongla 30 minute and Khulna 3.50 hours.
- Rocket steamer 21 hours cruise from sadarghat to either hularhat or Morrelgonj is last stoppage then by car to Mongla
- Dhaka to Mongla day or night chair coach through mawa ferry ghat or Dhaka to mawa ghat
By car / bus then short day speed boat crossing
ganges river to kewrakanda where you find shared hiace van to Khulna or you can
reserved to Mongla.
Sundarban friendly planet travel itinerary:
Friendly planet travel
having two boats corporate tour offer one is capacity of 10 adults and
another one is for 18 adults based cabin, we cover sundarbans three major Tiger
point in the 3 days cruise around mangrove forest – kotka tiger forest,
kochikhali tiger forest and herbaria walking tour to see Tiger foot print, in
addition we also ccruise through berrikhal ( channel ) which is more attractive
canal to see both side forest during cruise for 3 hours and half from
Tmabulbunia to herbaria Eco tourism centre. There is crocodiles farm, spotted
deer, monkeys in karamjal at the beginning of the sundarbans forest if time
permits see this Eco park.
Night -01: leave Dhaka in the night at around 08:00 pm by Sundarban /
parzatak chair coach bus from saidabad about to Mongla or 10:00 pm by a/c Volvo
bus journey to Khulna then Mongla.Day-01: Boarding into the cruising boat at Mongla in the Morning. On way, we will stop at chandpai forest station to take the permit copy show finally take armed forest guard. The boat start its cruise through river about to kotka, in the late afternoon on arrival, bird watching trip into the kotka canal, or sitting on the watch tower to have a look the wildlife in the evening. overnight in double / twin bedded cabin nearby Kotka forest station.
Day-02: walking into the forest about to silent beach, sitting on the watch tower to have a look the wildlife, walking into the forest around many spotted deer, monkey eroute to Tiger tilla, cruise to kochikhali Tiger forest during lunch period takes 2 hours and half, Birds watching through kochikhali canal in the evening by a country boat. Overnight nearby Kachikhali forest station
Day-03: early in the morning trail into the kochikhali deep forest to look the wildlife, cruise back about to Mongla, in the late afternoon visit karamjal Eco park and in the evening leave the boat start return drive to Khulna then back to Dhaka by Volvo Bus journey.
Price Per Adults - BDT- 9,900 from Mongla by 18 people capacities boat
Price per Adults - BDT. 9,500 from Mongla if run by 10 adults
Additional cost both way Volvo bus ticket => 2000 tk and car both way 500 TK for Mongla.
forest revenue if foreign nationality @ 5,000
Price shall include:
- All Meals Day-1 to Day-03 ( breakfast +Lunch+ Dinner + tea/coffee available+ afternoon snacks & seasonal Fruits )
- All Taxes, Forest Permission and Armed Forest Guard for 3 days.
- Overnight in Boat cabin ( twin and double bedded )
- Language Tour Guide & The Travel as per itinerary.
Bandarban friendly
planet Eco travel
Bangladesh highest peak's Tajindong, saka haphong and
keokradong in bandarban hill tracts is wonderful place for those who love
wandering off the beaten track. Hiking from one hill tribe village to another
is a unique experience to know their lifestyle. There are fourteen tribal
ethnic groups living in bandarban such as bawm, marma, murong, khumi, lusai,
tengchangiya, khasia, chakma etc. every ethnic group has its own language, They
share animist beliefs and honor numerous forest and guardian spirits. Each
tribe has their own distinctive ceremonial attire, courtship rituals, cultural
pattern, dances, agricultural customs, dialects, aesthetic values and hygienic
habits. The friendly planet travel Bangladesh welcome to know friendly
hospitable people and majesty of bandarban.
Bandarban Friendly travel
planet:
From Dhaka to bandarban getting by soudia / s. alam hino
chair coach direct day or night journey or Dhaka to Chittagong by air / train /
Volvo bus then Micro bus to bandarban. From bandarban take a jeep ( chander
gari ) to boga lake or ruma bazaar.
Hiking trail route -01: ruma bazaar to boga lake through
JHIRI path ( stream of waterfalls ) and boga lake > keokradong > baktlai
para > serkar para > Tajindong > Thanchi > bandarban.
Hiking trail route:
bandarban > Thanchi > tindu ( remakri ) > Nafakhumb > satvai
khumb > thanchi > shaka haphong peak > bandarban.
Friendly planet hiking trail itinerary:
The first Day: Dhaka to Chittagong by air from Chittagong
drive to bandarban by car / van, check in hotel for refreshment, in the
afternoon visit bandarban include tiger hill, golden temple, museum, night stay
in bandarban hotel / resort. ( our language guide will show permission copy in
the check point where foreign tourists are controlled )
The second day: early
in the morning drive about to ruma, one hour and half boat trip in the shangu
river upstream to ruma bazaar where our tribal guide waiting after lunch drive
again to boga lake, on arrival boga lake free time around mysterious lake after
check in completion.
The third Day: our hiking trail started early in the morning
to unique experience tribal villages ( one ethnic group to another ethnic group
), we cover Darjeeling para, zatiphai waterfalls, bawm and murong tribes para
in this days. Overnight in keokradong cottage or Samsung para at the down -
hill of keokradong peak.
The fourth Day:
hiking trail to another ethnic village rumana para, passing para and
overnight baktlai para ethnic group homestays.
The fifth Day: from baktlai para to serkar para is beyond
tajindong peak then trail to overnight in bording para.
The sixth Day: walking through majesty of steam, waterfalls
and flora in whole bandarban, overnight in thanchi Government rest house.
The seventh Day: know about chakma then drive to Chittagong
via bandarban to take the return flight to Dhaka.
bandarban hiking
trail for 5 days / 6 nights
boga lake, keokradong, few tribal villages around keokradong
in the down hill top villages lifestyle, cruise on shangu and bandarban
sightseeing.
price include all : 30,500 ( 2 adults )
price include all : 17,500 ( 4 adults )
price include all : 14,500 ( 6 adults )
price include all : 13,900 ( 8 adults )
price exclude: personal cost.
Night-01: overnight Volvo bus journey to chittagong.
Day-01: drive to ruma for short cruise on shangu river then
drive again to boga lake.
Day-03: trail through darjeeling para, explore tribal
villages, overnight in tribal home or keokradong cottage.
Day-04: return by JHIRI Path overnight in bandarban.
Day-05: bandarban sightseeing then overnight volvo bus
journey to Dhaka.
Dear visitors,
This friendly travel plan outlined for 6 or 7 days tour but
we can customized in short as per visitors demands please tailor your trip.
Friendly planet
travel in cox’s bazaar beach and Saint Martin coral island
Travel duration: 4
nights / 3 days
Mode of transport: a/c
Volvo bus both way and sightseeing by car and ship to explore coral island.
Hotel type: beach
view 3 star hotel
Places to cover:
cox’s bazaar beach, inani beach, moheskhali island, saint martin island and
cheera dwip for living coral.
Price per person: BDT. 15,900
We need minimum six adults to run the trip including all
cost if increase or decrease no. of pax in that case price changes.
Historical travel in
Bangladesh at north Bangladesh for terracotta’s palace, Mosques, Temples and
ancient city
Travel duration: 4
days in rajshahi, bogra and Dinajpur all major travel attraction
Mode of Transport: reserved
a/c car / van
Price per adults: BDT. 15,000 including all cost
We need minimum six adults to run the trip including all
cost if increase or decrease no. of pax in that case price changes.
Friendly
planet Bangladesh travel
Day-01: after having an early
breakfast drive about to sreemangal after lunch from kuthumbari restaurant,
check in tea resort or Eco cottage then
2 hours walking into the Lawacharra rain forest to observe the many species
of Birds, insects, endangered wild animal. it is the home of “ Hollock Gibbons
“ as tropical rain forest of Bangladesh. Here, you find many species of birds
which is more interesting by the birds watchers. you find most greenest areas
by the tea garden, rubber plantation, pine-apple plantation is more attracted
by a naturalists, another 2 hours walking through forest about to Khashia
tribal village to know their life style, agriculture and betel leaf farmer
mainly. After having lunch drive then walking through rural landscape to
explore baikka bil (wetland of bird USAID projects) where thousands of local
and migratory bird found, in the evening experience special tea.
Day-02: After breakfast completing
one hour’s drive to visit Madhobpur Dam ( lake ) scenic view of Tripra ( India ) from High
hills. Another one drive to champarai tea garden then kalabagan to started
adventure walking up to ham ham waterfalls. ( walking both way 3 hours )On way
back to resort you find scenic beauty of tea garden, rubber garden & betel
nut tree.
Day-03: in the morning after having an early
breakfast check out tea resort then drive
to visit Jafflong sylhet where the surma river made the Bangladesh –
India boundary & visit scenic view of Stone, resume drive to Jaintapur to
explore historical Gauraguvinda palace & Temples. back to hotel for check
inn then in the evening visit visit holy shrines after dinner overnight
sleeper train journey to Chittagong.
Day-04: after having breakfast drive to khagrachari
for refreshment in hotel after having lunch sightseeing to Ramgor fruit garden,
fruit research institute, Ramgor cave, overnight in khagrachari.
Day-05: after an early breakfast Retong waterfalls,
Mung Rajbari, Buddhist temple & Alutila top hills and its cave after lunch
leave khagrachari to rangamati takes 3 hours drive to reach ( 72 km ) for night
halt.
Day-06: in the morning rangamati
cruise upstream to shovolong and know about chakma king palace and their
lifestyle. in the afternoon sightseeing around tribal villages overnight in
Rangamati.
Day-07: half day cruise on kaptai lake around the
magical beauty of hilly lake. After lunch leave rangamati for Chittagong to
take the return evening flight to Dhaka.
Day-08: drive to sightseeing and
know old Capital ruins City – sonargaon, night halt in Dhaka or take the
overnight air flight journey to your home country.
Price per person: USD. 540.00 ( five
hundred and fourty US dollar ) if run by 4 people
Price includes:
- a/c reserved Micro bus for surface transfer and sightseeing tour,
- a/c chair or cabin tickets of train from sylhet to Chittagong,
- Chittagong to Dhaka evening flight tickets
- All meal and snacks, water, fruits.
- a/c twin or couple bedded deluxe room in hotel,
- cruise on kaptai and the trip as per itinerary,
- Language tour guide.
Price Exclude: personal cost.
Friendly planet travel Bangladesh package offer to explore
sundarbans forest and world longest sea beach as well as Dhaka city
attractions. Please feel free ask for single travel destination or Dhaka,
sylhet and sreemangal, north Bengal historical sites, beach and coral island,
bandarban hiking trail, sundarbans tour, rocket steamer cruise and rangamati
lake cruise.
Dhaka – sundarbans – Cox’s bazaar - Dhaka
Travel duration: 8 days / 7 nights
Day-01: welcome receive from Dhaka international airport
then check in hotel for refreshment then proceed by tourist coaster to Mawa
ghat ( 40km ) where you board to speed boat crossing Ganges river then drive by
a/c van to Mongla, on arrival board to the sundarbans cruising boat. In the
evening boat will starts its cruise to sundarbans, we reach near kachikhali for night halt.
Day-02: in the morning bird watching trip into the canal,
walking into the forest from kachikhali to katka for 2 hours half. overnight in
double / twin cabin room at Katka forest station.
Day-03: On this day, we will offer different activities at
around Katka, like walking into the forest, sitting on the observation tower to
have a look the wildlife, going into the beach through adventurous jungle in a
group. adventure walking into the mangrove forest around many deer about to
Tiger tilla, Birds watching through canal in the evening by a country boat.
Overnight nearby tambulbunia forest station
Day-04: in the morning boat will start its cruise through
best magical beauty channel “ berrikhal “ up to herbaria Eco touris centre to
visit Tiger foot print, in the late afternoon leave the boat start return drive
to Khulna then back to Dhaka via A/c Bus in the night journey. next early
Morning arrive at Dhaka.
Day05: on arrival check in hotel ( 3 room only ) for
refreshment at around 12:00 noon Dhaka city sightseeing tour In the old part of
Dhaka which is more attractive by foreign tourists, at around 07:30 pm take the
dinner and leave Dhaka by Swedish Volvo bus for overnight journey to cox’s
bazaar.
Day-06: in the
morning check in beach front hotel after breakfast outing about to moheskhali
island where you can see Adinath temple, pagoda and rakhain tribes reach by
traller / speed boat. Back to cox’s bazaar for lunch then drive to inani beach and trekking himchari, back in
hotel by evening.
Day-07: free time in the morning beach activities then you
can drive to Teknaf game reserved forest or dulhazari Eco safari park by van
then in the late afternoon beach activities in cox’s bazaar after dinner take
the return Volvo bus journey to Dhaka.
Day-08: check in hotel ( 3 room only ) sightseeing tour in
the Dhaka university, karzan hall, parliament building and drop to the airport
to leave from Bangladesh.
Price per person include all asp itinerary => 30,000 BDT.
Or 370 USD. ( Minimum 15 adults )
Price Exclude all meal in Dhaka and cox’s bazaar , museum
entry fee.
Price include: all meal in boat, a/c accommodation, all
transfer, Volvo bus tickets, sightseeing tour, Language guide, forest
permission and sundarbans trip 3 days / 3 nights.
We also offer guided travel in south-east Bangladesh,
north-east Bangadesh, northern Bangladesh, south-east Bangladesh and south-west
part of Bangladesh.
Please e-mail us:
Friendly planet travel Bangladesh
House# 14, ( 1st floor), road# 01, sector#06,
Uttara, Dhaka -1230
Hot line; 01758063505
