All in One (Part 4-Ghor/House)

More pics from there:

Another feature of Mini Bangladesh is that it has replica of houses from all parts of Bangladesh:


This, as they say, is a Sylhet house.





And this, a Bogra House


You can see a "shan badhano pukur ghat" in front of this Jeshore house.


The "mother" is making "pitha puli" for her sons in this Khulna house (mothers from other places don't make so??)


In this Pabna house, this lady is selling Pabna special pitha puli (so we can say mothers from Pabna usually make pitha-puli to sell outsiders??... hmmm--- no wonder the only MH of BD is in Pabna....)

A replica of a Rangpur house. (can you see the kobutorer basha [pigeon holes] in front of it?)

Where is the Chittagong house?? Maybe I forgot to take a picture of it, cos I thought it was not representative of Chittagong houses... I can put up a million real pictures of Chittagong houses, also from my own Image gallery... :)

There are more pictures of Mini Bangladesh.. Maybe it will run to Part 5! But for now, I have to stop here..

So, till next time (wonder WHEN it comes though!),

~~Biday~~

All in One (Part 3)

You can guess I am in a blogging mood today! So, what I haven't done in the last few years, I am doing it now...

Yupp- more pics - from the same location again:


The most beautiful replica in the whole place is Shona Masjid (A historic Masjid). I wonder how beautiful the original piece is, this whole piece-even the replica- is a beauty! I had to take pictures of different bits and pieces of this building, as it's beauty was soo stunning!
The above picture is of the entrance. An important note: this is serving as the real Masjid at the place! So the size is, I believe, as the original (or very close).


Get a glimpse of just a pillar in the above pic.


A close up of one of the many designs covering all over its body.


Another bit from a wall.


One side of the walls of Shona Masjid...

It's so gorgeously built, I thought this Shona Masjid demanded a separate post.

All in one (part 2)

Sorry to be away for so long. I was in the middle of putting up pictures of this wonderful Zia Smriti (Memorial) Complex, also known as Mini Bangladesh (and Anando Bhubon).

Instead of blabbering any more, I better get started with posting pictures:


This is replica of the wonderful historic "Ahsan Manjil", the original one being located in Puran (Ancient) Dhaka. It is a very historic building, which used to be the residence of some "Nowab".
I haven't been to the original, so trying to do some "dudher shad ghole metano" with this.



The replica itself almost resembles the original, even the size of it is almost the size of original ( am no architect to give you the exact figure). You get the proof when you see the rear side of it- even the rear side is so meticulously accurate!


This is the Kantojir Mandir (the size not being so close to the original). You can see the signboard-unfortunately on the ground, which has it's name written on it.

Replica of the Historic Curzon Hall, which is a part of Dhaka University now. Have I been to the original? Can't recall.. Even if I have seen it from a distance, probably it wasn't a sight so memorable.. so I tried to make this sight of the replica memorable. The pic came dark, and I am still wondering whether I took the pic from the right side.. But who cares, lemme put it up on my blog first!

This is the BORO kuthi. There is one CHOTO kuthi as well. The original history is supposed to be something relating to Rabindranath Tagore. But I am not not a History student, so don't ask me more about it.

Oh yeah, it is where you get on the train- that's all I know about BORO kuthi.

And here comes the Choto Kuthi. Not sure what is this one's function in the park. And it's history? umm, err...

ALL IN ONE!!

Salamz all,

No more excuses for it's already apparent that I need no excuse to go into hiding.

I haven't been roaming that much, so I thought I didn't have any picture to share. But just yesterday I recalled I DID go to some places where cool pics were taken!

Yeah and that ONE place I am talking about includes ALL of Bangladesh! Sounding strange? Well, that's the case with the quite new (few years old) Zia Smriti Complex that encompasses quite a HUGE place, and has replicas of almost all notable structures of Bangladesh. And so, it's called "MINI BANGLADESH" by many..

There are still sooooo many places and tourist attractions yet to be explored by me. But this one place was good enough to quench SOME bit of my thirst of visiting all of BD.

So, no more "pechal" and lemme directly go off to pics now :)

This is the replica of National Monument (Jatio Smritishoudh). I haven't been to the original one, so I liked it!

And this is the mini replica of The Supreme Court. Not that I am a law person, but I still loved the design of this great structure. Yeah, and I didn't visit the original... as well.

MY village

My village, Chunati, means something really special for me. It's the place where I was born, and so were every member of my family!

What's so special about my village, you might want to know- it is (most probably)the only village in Bangladesh that has a WEBSITE based on it!

It occupies a special part of my life, and whenever I get the time and the chance, I never miss the opportunity to visit her. You might laugh at me, but I won't hesitate to say, it is the heaven for me. I do have some scattered pics from my village here and there in this blog, but they are not all in one place. And I am not used to tagging posts :(, so these can't be found at one click.



I always wished to share the many great pics I have taken of my village in each of my trips. But there are so many, I decided it demands special attention, just as special it is to me. So I thought of developing a separate blog site on it.



So with that site to describe my village for you, I just shared some random pictures that mean a lot to me! Hope you enjoy it!!

Jaflong

Pics from Jaflong, the beauty queen of Sylhet. It appeared to me that Jaflong is more attractive than any other part of Sylhet.

The following pic is taken on the way to Jaflong. It's best if you can start for Jaflong early in the morning, and these clouds playing on the hilltop will create a wonderful welcoming ceremony for you on the way.

The following scenes will appear as you land Jaflong. The workers are working

hard to collect the best stones available, while we go and have a pleasure trip beside them.

Pics of SYLHET

The waterfall at Madhobkunda is a must see place in Sylhet. Though the journey to Madhabkunda is a tiresome one, all your sorrows are sure to wash away just at the site of this beautiful fall.

It takes three hours to go and another three hours to come back from Madhabkunda. And all you see is just a fall? NOO. IT's more than just a fall and you have to be there to understand what I mean. But believe me, it's worth it!

Sylhet in Pictures

Last December I had the chance to visit Sylhet, located in the North-East of Bangladesh, along the borders of India. Sylhet is well known for its tea gardens, the Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA), its splendid scenic beauty with hills standing firm in the horizon and to add to it- the extreme cold in its air.

I have some more of Sylhet pics somewhere in my early blog entries. But those were hired from my sister, and this time I was too excited as I myself was there to take as many pics I wanted.

I was one of the 70+ members of the team that visited Sylhet on a "study tour" from our uni. Although we called that "study tour", it is actualy an "escape from the boring studies" and so we all were excited to our most.

It takes around 12 hours through train from Chittagong, and we had two boggies hired for our team. The more we proceeded Sylhet, the more the December cold was increasing and we all were cuddled together, trying to save ourselves from the cold. There is not much of sightseeing possible in night train journeys, so we just didn't mind sitting with all the ammunitions we had to fight the cold. Not to mention, there was always some kind or another fun items going on here and there.

Just to add here, I earned some fame taking pics of different sleeping poses :D

The morning was great. WE were all so excited to reach Sylhet that we forgot we had a bad night with almost no sleep (that's what everyone was trying to say, though I had concrete proof of almost everyone's strange sleeping styles).

And I better continue with the story in pics rather than in words. That's already too much for this blog. If you have alraedy read till this much, I must give you a thanks for your patience.

To start with the pics, these two are just a glimpse of a tea garden from Sylhet. We only visited one garden, and that also just before the sunset, and not for longer than half an hour. So I need to aplogize first for the low quality picture:

Recent pics from Cox's Bazar

Though I was on the way of posting some pics from my Cox's Bazar and Saint Martin's Islam visit, I suddenly disappeared. Well, in the meantime I paid another visit to Cox's Bazar, and for now, I am going to post pics from this visit.

The first pic is taken from the hotel balcony. The sun is rising with the message of a new day. I miss this scene alot, as since December 2006, I lost access to the horizon towards the east. (Since we shifted to a new house). SO I didn't miss this chance to capture this beautiful scene at a beautiful place.

This pic is from my visit to the beach n the morning. I couldn't help taking as many pics as possible of the waves. But I don't want to bore you guys with waves only. SO they will stop after just another pic:

I recall reading a special line from "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, one of my favorite books, related to the sea. If not exactly, it says something like "Whenever you visit the sea, you realize how tiny you are". Yes, exactly indeed. The endless horizon teaches us there is no end to its beauty. And to add those lines from that poem we have all read in our childhood (Bangladeshi ones, i mean)-

"Inggite tar shikhay shagor, Ontor hok rotno akor"

(The sea teaches us indirectly, our hearts should be a chest of jewelry)

The greedy sea has eaten up many lives. Yet, its beauty, its splendor attracts us so much that we can't resist the temptation of visiting it, no matter how many times we have had already.

Here are more pics of the splendid sea:

This pic is to prove that Cox Bazar is the longest sea beach :D.

Some people have tried to keep a mark of their love in the beach :)