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Best in monsoon

Gowainghat, Sylhet

Bichanakandi

How to get there

4 legs

  1. Dhaka · SayedabadBus

    Night coach to Sylhet. Book the 11pm — you arrive at first light.

    6h 30m · ৳700

  2. Sylhet · KadamtoliCNG

    Share one to Gowainghat bazar. Agree the fare before you get in.

    1h 30m · ৳150

  3. Gowainghat ghatBoat

    Wooden boat upriver. Split between six it is cheap; alone it is not.

    40m · ৳1200

  4. BichanakandiOn foot

    Over the stones to the water. Shoes you do not mind soaking.

    15m

Door to door 8h 55mfrom ৳2,050

Where the routes come from

A route is only worth following if someone has actually followed it.

01Step 1

Someone writes it down

A traveller who just made the trip adds the steps: which bus, where to change, what the CNG should cost.

02Step 2

It gets checked

Every submission lands unpublished and goes through review, so one wrong turn does not become everyone's wrong turn.

03Step 3

The next person follows it

Once approved it appears on the spot, with a comment thread on each step for the things that change.

Explore by division

Eight divisions. Rather more than eight weekends.

Barisal — 34 spotsChittagong — 128 spotsDhaka — 96 spotsKhulna — 61 spotsMymensingh — 27 spotsRajshani — 45 spotsRangpur — 38 spotsSylhet — 87 spots

516

spots in Bangladesh

Every one written up by someone who has been. Tap a division, or open the app and start from where you are.

When to go

The same waterfall is a cliff of dry rock four months later.

Six seasons, and picking the wrong one is the most expensive mistake in Bangladeshi travel. Every spot carries the months it is actually worth the journey.

Jun — Sep

Monsoonবর্ষা

Waterfalls run and the haors turn into inland seas. The only months Bichanakandi and Ratargul are worth the fare.

Head for Sylhet, Sunamganj

Oct — Nov

Late autumnহেমন্ত

Kaash phool, empty roads and no crowds anywhere. The short, easy window nobody thinks to use.

Head for Dhaka's outskirts, Rajshahi

Dec — Feb

Winterশীত

Clear air, cold nights, visibility for miles. Hills and the Sundarbans are at their best and so are the crowds.

Head for Sajek, Bandarban, Khulna

Works with the radio off

Routes, maps and saved spots live on the device. Sylhet's hills are not known for their signal.

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Credit for contributing

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What is out there

Waterfalls, haors, a thousand-year-old monastery.

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English

Bichanakandi

Gowainghat, Sylhet

A stone-bed river running straight out of the Meghalaya hills. Go in monsoon; by winter it is mostly rock.

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