After years of political instability, this little country is emerging as an ideal destination for lovers of unspoiled paradise, away from mass tourism. It is an opportunity for the adventurous and nature lovers, delicious to contemplate a landscape, decorated with extensive mangroves and virgin jungles, and people still intact on commercial tourism.
Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) is located to the east of Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Myanmar (Burma) and Indian. It has a wild coastline of 600 km above the Bay of Bengal, and is the largest agricultural country with the world population density (849 inhabitants per square kilometer, mostly around Dhaka and quotes), and also one of those increased poverty.
More than 120 million people living in the great delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra, are exposed to the threat of catastrophic flooding, as a country made up of flood plains. In fact, since 1960, has been in six Bangladesh cyclone with winds over 200 km / h.
It is not unusual to see completely flooded the streets of Dhaka, and its people transported by boat, like channels. That same water that drowns the streets in times of monsoon is what feeds the rich vegetation of Bangladesh, and has resulted in long stretches of grassy plains covered with tea plantations, and tropical forests abound in bamboo, mangoes and palm trees, thanks to the great rivers of the Ganges and Brahmaputra.
Other major cities including the capital Dhaka, are Chittagong, a coastal city northeast of the Bay of Bengal with over 2.8 million inhabitants, Khulna, southwest of the country, with more than 1.8 million people, and Rajshahi , located on the border with India, with more than a million inhabitants.
In the fourteenth century, the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta wrote that Bengalis are referred to their land as “a hell full of blessings.” Today, travelers may soon be finding those blessings, but the find.
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