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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Chitagong

 Tourism Site Of Chittagong
The city-limits of Chittagong is a above day-tripper allure in Bangladesh. Its blooming hills and forests, its ample albino beaches and its accomplished air-conditioned altitude consistently allure the holiday-markers. Described by the Chinese adventurer poet, Huen Tsang (7th aeon AD) as "a sleeping adorableness arising from mists and water" and accustomed the appellation of "Porto Grande" by the 16th aeon Portuguese seafarers. Chittagong is abounding with close blooming forests, amaranthine rolling hills, a abstinent altitude and amazing beaches. Since the 7th century, Chittagong has been mentioned in abounding abstracts as a anchorage of mystical adorableness and arresting charm. The alive anchorage stands in abrupt adverse to the ataraxia and peaceful ambience of the city.
Chittagong Hills  Tracts
The Chittagong Acropolis Tracts (CHT) absolute an breadth of 13,180 km2 in south-eastern Bangladesh, is the alone acropolis accelerated breadth of Bangladesh. CHT consisting Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban districts is home to country's better absorption of at atomic 11 altered aboriginal groups and is a different allotment of the country both in agreement of mural and its people. The aboriginal groups are apprenticed calm by a aggregate history, years of peaceful cohabitation, and a accepted future. They alter from the majority Bengali citizenry of Bangladesh in their concrete features, ability and religion. However, about all the aboriginal peoples aswell cover acceptable aboriginal elements in their academic religious behavior and practices.


Patenga beach:
Patenga Bank is one of the accepted day-tripper spots for visitors in Chittagong.The bank lies about twenty-two kilometers away from the city-limits of Chittagong, and is attainable by a straight,long alley through a admirable forest.It is amid abreast alluring landmarks which includes the Shah Amanat International Airport and the BNS Isha Khan Naval Base.Moreover,Patenga Bank is aswell amid at the 'Karnaphuli' River aperture and stretches beyond the Bay of Bengal,which ensures a connected arrival of travelers and visitors from home and abroad. The amplitude of the bank is narrow,and pond at the bank is not recommended due to able baptize after-effects and current.Part of the bank is built-up with accurate walls, and aswell ample blocks of stones accept been laid out to anticipate abrasion of the littoral areas.Lighting of the bank breadth has added the aegis aspect of visiting in the evening.During 1990s, a host of restaurants and kiosks accept sprouted out about the bank area.Nowadays,alcohol peddling is actual accepted at the beach.Vendors from the city-limits army to Patenga Bank to advertise their alternative of ice creams, algid drinks and aliment to the hundreds of tourists who appear to Patenga Beach.According to the bounded people,Patenga is the best abode for delicious, adorable artery aliment at actual low costs.One of the accepted dishes of the aliment stands is the fried, ambrosial mud backtalk served with a baby bowl abounding of falafel, a abysmal absurd brawl fabricated of soybean and chickpeas, busy with cucumber and onion.The bank has a admirable air-conditioned atmosphere even at the evening,and humans appear about to adore the abatement breeze every now and then.Also, at any time of the year! The bank is lined with massive adumbral approach copse and fishing boats.It aswell has an arrangement of acceleration boats for visitors with a faculty of adventure.The beach, however,is absolutely sandy, with a few bouldered patches actuality and there. A lot of visitors appear to 'Patenga' Bank as it is accepted for accepting some of the a lot of beauteous sunsets and sunrises in Bangladesh.

Foy's Lake:
Foy's Basin is a human-made basin in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The basin was already just a basin and spillway complete by Assam-Bengal Railway engineer. It was dug in 1924 and was called afterwards the English architect Mr. Foy.The basin is next to Batali Hill, the accomplished acropolis in Chittagong Metropolitan area. An action park, managed by the Concord group, is amid actuality which appearance accepted affair esplanade rides and attractions as able-bodied as baiter rides on the lake, landscaping, restaurants, concerts with amphibian stages, breathtaking walking trails and abounding added fun activities. The esplanade includes a baptize affair park, resort and an action center. The Chittagong Zoo is next door. Chittagong is accepted as the acreage of saints, darwishes and fakirs. Several mosques and shrines buck affidavit to their attendance in the city.

Heritage Park
There is a ancestry esplanade alleged Shaheed Zia Memorial Complex and Mini Bangladesh at Chandgaon which reflects the a lot of notable structures and instances of Bangladesh. This 71-metre belfry in Mini Bangladesh in Chittagong has a restaurant on the top that rotates already every 90 minutes.The architecture includes a revolving restaurant. One can apperceive of the country's architectural beauty, indigenous traditions and archaeological bequest through accepting a glimpse of the ancestry park. Replica of above structures of the country, includes Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (parliament building), National Memorial of Savar, Ahsan Manzil, Curzon Hall of Dhaka University, Paharpur Monastery, Kantajew Temple of Dinajpur, Lalbagh Fort and Sona Masjid. The esplanade aswell has altered rides for children.

Chittagong Ethnological Museum
The Chittagong Ethnological Building amid in the alive bartering artery of Agrabad, country’s abandoned ethnological museum, offers the visitors the adventitious to accustom with the lifestyles and ancestry of assorted indigenous groups of the country. It was accustomed in 1965. The building authorities had calm attenuate elements acclimated in accustomed lives of altered indigenous groups, of which some had already become abolished while some were on the border of extinction. The building contains four galleries and a baby hall. Three galleries of the building affection assorted elements of 25 indigenous groups, including Chakma, Marma, Tongsinga, Khumi, Murang, Sautal, Garo, Chak, Monipuri, Palia, Tipra, Hajang, Lusai, Shimuji, and Bom while the blow arcade displays the lifestyles of some ancestral groups of India, Pakistan, and Australia.The sculptures of the humans of altered indigenous communities and a section of torn Berlin Wall draw the visitors abnormally the accouchement who can get consequence of altered festivals, livelihoods, and cultures of the communities from the murals set up at the anteroom room. These are evocative of the building in the blur 'Planet of the Apes'. Humans amid 200 and 300 visits the building every day in accession to a amount of advisers from home and abroad.

World War II cemetery and Zia Memorial Museum
Zia Memorial Museum
The War Cemetery on Badshah Mia Road is addition abode of celebrated interest. It contains the graves of 755 soldiers of the Allied Forces who laid down their lives on the Indo-Burmese foreground during World War II. A lot of of the soldiers active there were from Australia, Britain, Canada, East and West Africa, British India and New Zealand. The absolute breadth of the cemetery is eight acreage and it is adequate and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. There are a amount of museums in Chittagong. The a lot of arresting is the Zia Memorial Building which is housed in the old ambit abode building. President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated there on 30 May 1981. This commemorative building houses the Late President Ziaur Rahman's mementos and claimed belongings. It was accustomed in 1993 with 12 galleries.

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