Pukurpara Waterfall of Bangladesh

Pukurpara Waterfall

Pukurpara Waterfall of Bangladesh

This country has several waterfalls scattered all around.PukurparaWaterfall is just one from that list.The waterfall that I'm going to introduce with you is a bit different than those. Interestingly the waterfall is located at the Bilaichhori Thana of Rangamati district. But to have an access to the waterfall, you need to use the trekking routes from Bandarban. It is just few hundreds meter apart from the Bandarban district's border. This waterfall is currently the widest waterfall from Bangladesh. It has a width of approximately 80 meters and the height of 4-6 feet on an average. During the rainy season, you will not be able to see any stones from the waterfall. Only visible are the cascades of water. Some people used to call this as the "Niagara of Bangladesh". 

After the waterfall, it as possibly a several hundred feet of down stream over solid rock(almost like a road of concretes), and over that rock, water from the fall is flowing downwards with a huge force. If you walk normally beside the stream, it will possibly take 40-50 minutes to reach at the bottom of the waterfall stream. Except the rainy season, the path is in good condition. But during rainy season, you can only risk your life if you attempt to go down over those slippy path. This waterfall is created from the water of Raikhong Canal and the water finally goes to the great Kaptai Lake. 

Some people used to call this Raikhong River. According to the name of the Canal/River, some people used to call this waterfall as Raikhong Waterfall. For your information, it is called PukurPara Waterfall, because there is a village near the waterfall named Pukur Para. Trekkers used to make a shelter at Pukurpara village, and only visits the waterfall for few hours. 

But if you make your trip a bit wisely, you can set few tents around the waterfall during summer or winter for nighttime stay. There are numerous dry and clean places around the waterfall for your camping. But unfortunately almost no one used to do that. Just wonder how it will feel when you are sleeping beside a waterfall at night. Bonus when it will be a full moon, or a night full of starts at null moon. 

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Dhupchhori Waterfall of Bangladesh

Dhupchhori Waterfall

Dhupchhori Waterfall of Bangladesh

Dhupchhori waterfall is located at the left side of your hand when you are going towards the Shubolong Waterfall from Rangamati. It will be around 5-10 minutes before. At the left hand side of your hand. Everyday plenty of tourists used to visit this path for the Shubolong Waterfall, but most of them don't find this one. Main reason is they are not heard about this one. Though its at left side, but its behind the trees and a small narrow passage. That's why from boat, tts not visible to the tourist.

This is a seasonal waterfall, only available during Rainy Season. Unlike other seasonal waterfall, this one used to produce prominent amount of water.Its not available to dry season, so no tourist used to come here.Due to less tourist at the spot, you can easily feel the calm and peaceful environment.

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Shuvolong Waterfall of Bangladesh

Shuvolong Waterfall

Shuvolong Waterfall of Bangladesh

Shuvolong has a beautiful waterfall with the natural surroundings.The only available path to reach at the waterfall is through water, through the lake. People visit there by boat. It is a popular place with the tourists for the waterfall, high hills and the natuarl surrounding it offers.This waterfall is just before the Shubholong Bazaar. Means from the waterfall, it will take around 5 minutes to reach at bazaar.

During rainy season the current of the waterfall is strong. During winter the current may not be strong, but water flow is there. Now the authority has made some facilities for the visitors there.

If you plan to visit this waterfall, you can make a single day trip easily from Dhaka. At any weekend, or government holiday, you can come to visit this beauty. 

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Hum hum waterfall of Bangladesh

Hum hum waterfall

Hum hum waterfall of Bangladesh

This was my second attempt to vanquish the remote waterfall. Hummum from Rajkandi reserve forest, Moulvibazar. Last time I couldn't reach towards the waterfall with my team comprises of ten members due to extreme adversity from weather. If you have time on your hand, you can read that unsuccessful attempt.There, people are now a days trying to make money from the tourists. They are forcing to pick guides from them and possibly it was around 300 taka per guide. Since we have already known to the path, and we have the path loaded on our GPS navigator, we were reluctant to pick any guides. But they were compelling to hire one from them.By paying 50 Taka, somehow we have managed to escape. From the bazaar we were walking with moderate pace through the muddy road. Interestingly a local tractor(use to transport tea-leafs and other stuffs for tea gardens) offered us a free ride. We enthusiastically accepted the offer. They have dropped us almost near to the Kolabon Para village.One of the guy from the village wanted to join us as a guide, but we have denied him politely and thanked him for the offer. Last time there were only one path to reach at the waterfall. But right now people made another twos, possibly shorter in distance. But we didn't know that. We were walking over the new path, and our GPS was showing "Off trek". May be it would be a shortcut, but we didn't want to use this one. So we walked back and picked the right path.Last time it was raining, so the whole road was packed with tons of blood sucking leeches. But this time it is clean sky with plenty of sunlight. The jungle was warm, and the trek was dry enough to retreat the leeches from the main course.When we have reached at the Jhiri. it was having water flowing, but not that much as we have seen last time. We were walking through the Jhiriautiously. The water from the Jhiri was not clean like Bandarban too much murky. We have experienced the water height almost up to our waist at some places.

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