Chittagong - Cityscapes and Landmarks

[nayeem007]

Simply Awesome!!!! TMAC thank you so much for getting the pics of hotel Seagull, I have been looking for the photos of that hotel for the last couple of years. You just made my day

[nayeem007]

Photos: Courtsey of www.webbangladesh.com

Chittagong Gate


Airport Road


Chittagong Airport


British Council


Khulshi








Shopping Center

[nayeem007]

Cox's Bazaar-in Chittagong Division

Miles of golden sands, towering cliffs, surfing waves, rare conch shells, colorful pagodas, Buddhist temples and tribes, delightful sea-food--this is Cox's Bazar, the tourist capital of Bangladesh. Having the world's longest (120 kilometers) beach sloping gently down to the blue waters of the Bay of Bengal, Cox's Bazar is one of the most attractive tourist spot in the country.

Located at a distance of 152 km south of Chittagong, the leading seaport of Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar is connected both by air and road from Dhaka and Chittagong.

Photos: Courtesy of Rafat Azad

[nayeem007]

More pics from Cox's Bazar, longest unbroken sea beach in the world.

Photos: Courtsey of Faruque Abu Sayeed

[cinemawatcher]

the Hotel Seagull in Cox's Bazar looks like a building in rio where i live in brazil.

[nayeem007]

I have been reading a lot about all the infrastructure development work going on in Chittagong city. But sadly, I haven't found many pics of the new modern building of this city. I would really appreciate if someone can post photos of the skyscrapers of Chittagong, something along the line of "Dhaka Skyscraper thread".

Thanks

[Tmac]

few night views of Chittagong

[Tmac]

Safari Park: A safe haven for wildlife
Most interesting and recreational leisure spot for the visitors
Shahidul Islam



Dulahazra Safari Park is the most interesting and recreational leisure spot for the visitors. Once been, one would surely feel like visiting it again.
The park project was started in 1998-1999 at a cost of Tk 9.90 crore on a 300 hectares of land. Later, 600 more hectares of land were included in second phase, which was completed this year.

The park is now a beautiful sanctuary for wildlife in the country. With good road communications from Chittagong city and beach city Cox's Bazar, it is located at a serene place of Dulahazara at Chokoria Upazila.

Wide varieties of herbivorous and carnivorous animals like lion, tiger, deer, bear and elephant have now found their safe haven here over an area of 900 hectares of land in natural environment.


Separate spacious enclosures were set up for different animals. Sixty hectares of grazing field were allocated for tigers and lions. Besides, enclosures on 50 hectares of land for different types of deer (sambar, spotted, hog) and goyal, eight water reservoirs on 50 hectares for amphibians and guest birds, 20 hectares for bears, 100 hectares for elephant and 10 hectares for crocodiles were also established.

The park has large varieties of trees, shrubby plants, bamboo, climbers and a large orchid house. Colourful collection of orchids is put on show in the orchid house. The park has many observation towers to have a glance of the animals grazing in their enclosures. Riding on a protected minibus, visitors can take the opportunity to see live those ferocious animals. There is also a natural history museum few yards inside the main gate. The remains, specimen and stuffing of about 2000 animals and birds were kept in this museum.

Another attraction of the park is its 'Nature Interpretation Centre. The visitors can get the thrill of an artificial dense forest, once they enter it. At the entrance, there are few murals. Of them one is of a gigantic dinosaur, enough to remind one the 'extra terrestrial' (ET) world. The park has nice accommodation for visitors to stay at night.

More features: background
The evergreen forests of Cox's Bazar once enriched with lofty Dipterocarps, Boilum, Telsur, Civit, Chapalish, Champa and various climber and medicinal plants were endowed with enormous rare wildlife species like elephant, leopard, deer, bear, wild boar, monkeys, flying squirrel and various reptiles. The reptiles include python, fauna like Black Drongo, Hair Crested Drongo, Rufous Nickel Hornbil and White Breasted Kingfisher.

Ever increasing population pressure and poaching resulted in adverse impact on the bio-diversity including wildlife community. The Royal Bengal Tiger became extinct in the forests of Cox's Bazar in far sixties.


A team of Bangladesh Civil Service Forest Association called on the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for setting up of such a park on November 26 in 1996. She responded positively and ordered the concerned ministry and department to take necessary steps in this connection, sources said.


This safari park was built with a view to saving the wildlife from extinction and helping them in reproduction. It will contribute to research and education as well. In addition, it will also help expand eco-tourism as out-door recreational spots and contribute to protecting the environment through creation of employment opportunities.


Objectives
*To help breeding of major animals like tiger, cheetah, deer, elephant and Hog Deer by conserving them into the park;

*To conserve the extinct or near-extinct animals like ox, lion, bear, crocodiles, gharial, zebra, impala and spring duck;

*To create sanctuary for guest birds;

*To create natural food sources for herbivorous animals by creating grazing ground for them and

*To create scope for eco-tourism, education and research.


Lone hog deer
The Dulahazara Safari Park is now gifted with a rare animal -- country's only Hog Deer (known as Pera Hareen / scientific name Axis porcinus).

"It was collected from Khagrachhari in 2002 and probably it came from India," said Dr Tapan Kumar Dey, project director of the park.

Latest arrival
Twenty-nine freshwater crocodiles of an endangered species, out of 40 collected from Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) in India on Friday last, were released on Saturday and these crocodiles added new attraction to the park.

The park authorities, as Dr Tapan said, are contemplating to breed this rare species here in a planned way to enrich the world of wildlife.

[Tmac]

Chittagong views















Inside of Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport

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A rest house in Cox's Bazar

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Foy's Lake Amusement Park

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[c0kelitr0]

i don't know why but i felt so sad seeing many of the pics.

[Tmac]

that's an unusual reaction. Why?

[SUNNI]

very nice pictures, i like the pic with heeps of trees it loos refreshing

[nayeem007]

Awesome pics, thanks a lot Tmac! I didn't know that Chittagong has such beautiful theme park. The new resthouse in Cox's Bazar is also impressive.

[tanzirian]

Thanks for the pics Tmac. Where do you get them? I can't find any on the net...

Personally I was sad when I first saw pictures of this theme park. Foy's Lake was one of the few pristine natural attractions in Bangladesh. Now they have built this exceedingly garish and gaudy theme park there. I wish they had built structures that would blend into their natural setting, not distract from them.

Chittagong city itself, doesn't really have much historical or modern structures, but I am sure it will get plenty of the latter in the coming decades, as development gradually spills outward from Dhaka.

[Tmac]

A temple in Bandarban, Chittagong. This happens to be also a prime tourist destination.

[Tmac]

Cox's Bazare is a resort town in Bangladesh. Many hotels have sprung up over the years. Here are few photos.

Hotel Sea Palace









Hotel Media International



Honeymoon Hotel



Silvia Resort



Motel Laboni





Hotels Everywhere



Hotel Seagull (5 Star)

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CDA plans to set up Butterfly Park, sea life aquarium


http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/v...00000000058787


BDNEWS, Chittagong:The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has taken a project to set up a Butterfly Park and sea life aquarium, first of its kind in the country, beside the city's newly built Patenga area.

The project, aimed to create open recreational space as well as to keep up natural environment harmonising with the sea, river, marine life, surrounding installations, landscape and topography, will also add passive amusement to the tourists particularly nature lovers.

The CDA have already invited a tender on August 23 from the reputed firms or individuals for setting up the Butterfly Park and sea life aquarium to be developed with basic objective of conservation of nature and biodiversity, a CDA engineer said.

But the CDA is yet to fix up the location of the project, as it would be kept in such form, which will add proactive recreational amenities by providing benches, pathways, walkways, car parks, refreshment, souvenir corner and landscape that suits the park and aquarium.

But initially it has been decided that the site will be located either adjacent to Chittagong International Airport or along side Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Baizeed, the sources said.

In line with the model of Malaysia and Singapore, it will cost Tk 1 crore for the Butterfly Park and Tk 5 crore for the sea life aquarium exclusive of developing other infrastructures, the sources said.

City planners, landscape architects and especially nature lovers hoped that the proposed exceptional park and aquarium would usher in a new avenue to the visitors from home and abroad, particularly to the people of the port city as well as commercial capital, who are in dire need of recreational facilities for years. There is no major recreational facility in the port city except the Foy's Lake and Patenga sea beach.

CDA will retain ownership of the land and extend other logistic supports but responsibility for maintenance, operation and promotion of the proposed Butterfly Park and aquarium will be entrusted upon the developer.

The park and aquarium will be leased out to the developers from which CDA will earn a smart amount of revenue each fiscal year.