Beautiful Bandorban

It was like a dream for me! For the first time in my life, I went to adventure. I went there with a travel group. I was a bit tensed about my team. But fortunately they were really friendly and fun loving. We were a team of twelve members.

I started my journey with train! I went to Komolapur by train. I was so much excited for next two days.

At 7 am we reached Bandorban, it was so peaceful. We had this golden Jeep for whole day. It’s called “Chander gari”

I enjoyed curved roads of hills a lot. I almost heard whisper of nature as if she was welcoming us.

We checked into  hotel, took some rest there. I met Misty apu, who was passionate photographer, singer and overall good human being. She was really sweet and caring. We started our tour from prantik lake. It was so calm and cool. No one else were there. So we felt the silence very much. I met our younger member of the team there. He was six year old genius. He was my partner on bus too.

She is Mousumi apu, professional magician. She also entertained us with her magic at night.

Then we went to Meghla at afternoon. We had to walk for two hours to climb a hill. It was tiring but different kind of fun!

It was the top of Meghla. This picture cannot reflect the beauty of mother nature. There are literally many banana trees in Bandarban. So, it is quite normal that once this area was monky’s home.

Valley of Meghla. We were in cable car and took this lovly picture.

Hanging bridge of Meghla

Nilachol was one of my favorite places. I wanted to stay there for ages. I could feel that nature is purifying my soul. Finally we went back to hotel at night.

Next early morning we startd our journey for Neelgiri. It was for two hours of journey by chander gari. I enjoyed the ride most. Cool breeze and road road full of mist made the environment out of the world. In the middle of summer we shivered in chill. We were above 25000 feet!!

Helipad on the top of neelgiri. There were lovely cottages on the top of Neelgiri! I wish to stay at least one night there…

Clouds were floating like playful kids. When they passed me, I almost tasted its sweetness.

Darn! I forgot the name of this place! See the blue shirt man! He was so funny! he was taking selfie hanging on vines. We visited chimbuk, Jibon-nogor, Shangu river on the way. We had plan to visit Thanchi too! But as time was running out, we had to back to hotel. 

We enjoyed lunch at Milonchori. It was a beautiful cozy restaurant.

From the balcony of Milonchori, we saw a tiny temple. Then we decided to visit that temple. It was a sudden plan!

Food was really good there! I met Nelson, the waiter who was really friendly local boy.

 

The holy temple of Ramzadi. We had to pass many stairs to reach there. It was nice temple. It had seven doors to pray.

Another small temple from Ramzadi. There is no cement stairs, so reaching in that temple would be quite challenging!

Sunset from Ramzadi

Now I have got a reason to live and the reason is exploring new place, knowing new people, living many lives in one single life! This trip brought back my happiness.