A trip supposed to be fun when you are with some fun loving guys, and it adds extra joy when you are in such a place which is surrounded by 100% nature. Yesterday, I arrived in Dhaka after 3 days trip at Rangamati. We, a group of trippertians went to have some fresh air after releasing a big facebook application called “Godfather Crime Rings”.

Journey started with an adventure. I never saw that much fog in my life. Our bus started at 10:30pm and even, 2ft away things weren’t visible for heavy fog! Spent a sleepless night on the way as each moment was exciting and scary at the same time. We saw a car got twisted in front of our eyes! But thank God we arrived at the destination safely. That was my first visit at Rangamati. I heard a lot about rangamati before. When we arrived, it was around 7am in the morning, we didnt take any rest, neither we had the hotel room fixed! So we started roaming, and transportation was boat of course. First we went to the beautiful island “Peda Ting Ting” – means, eat a lot that was nice and beautiful island. Silence of the island attracted me.

Beautiful Rangamati

Anyway, we visited lots of places by 3 days journey. And i enjoyed every moment of it except sleepless time. And here are some comments that I would like to make about rangamati.

• Rangamati’s people are cool minded, they are honest with their work.
• People of rangamati respect visitors.
• 100% natural and secured, but if you are from out of Bangladesh, you have to let the local police know that you are visiting there, you have to take their permission.
• Most of the houses are made by bamboos.
• “Sofia” is knows as best hotel in Rangamati, but if you can manage the district council rest house then thats the best place for anyone – more importantly, its way cheaper than others.
• If you are planning to spend the night in any Island, please book your cottage from Dhaka. There are only 3 cottages in Peda Ting Ting. “Tuk Tuk” is another small Island in Rangamati where you can spend your night as well.
• Don’t forget to visit “Chang Pang” (if you want, you will get it) restaurant to eat all traditional foods. I can tell you, foods are really tasty.
• You can visit “shuvolong” on the way to Chang Pang, Shuvolong got stone hills that will take your eyes away!
• And afterall, you will always love the boat journey and the nature around the river.

Well, thats all for now. If you need any more guide or any kind of help that you think I can, please email me. I will try my best….

and well, we took thousands of pictures from the trip…not all of them are uploaded. You can have a look at some of them on my flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/junal/3230542961/

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