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Detailed Itinerary
Bangladesh Group Tour
Dhaka–Sreemangal–Chittagong-Sonargong (07 Days)
01-07, August 2025 | Group Tour | Trip Difficulty: Moderate
Day 00: Arrival
Pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel.
Overnight at Dhaka (Hotel Platinum Residence).
Fri, 01 Aug 2025
Day 1: Dhaka City -Ferry to Barisal
After an early breakfast, explore the largest vegetable market in Dhaka city. It’s a paradise for photographers. After that, visit key attractions in New and Old Dhaka the whole day, including outside the National Assembly Building, Dhakeshwari Temple, Lalbagh Fort, Star Mosque, and Armenian Church. Walk on Hindu Street, the centre of Hindu culture and community in Old Dhaka, full of jewellery shops, local musical instrument shops, Hindu bridal shops, kite shops, cookery shops, temples, rickshaws, and people. Embark on a traditional Bangladeshi passenger ferry in the afternoon and rest. Visit Ahsan Manzil (Pink Palace) in the late afternoon. Enjoy a boat ride on Dhaka's busy river, the Buriganga, before sunset. Visit the shipyard of Dhaka, where they repair and build passenger and cargo ferries. Drive back to your hotel in the evening.
Overnight at Dhaka (Hotel Platinum Residence).
Sat, 02 Aug 2025
Day-2: Dhaka - Sreemangal, Tea Plantations; Garo Village
Take a train at 6.30 H to Sreemangal (180 km, 5 hr). Arrive at Sreemangal around 12.00
Stop and have lunch. Walk through some trails of a beautiful tea plantation in the afternoon, where tourists don't go. Also, visit a village of the Garo tribe and experience
their lifestyle, where they primarily work as daily labourers in the tea estates. Also, visit a handicraft market of the Manipuri tribe, the most prosperous among all the tribes in
Sreemangal. They are famous for making handicrafts. After dinner, taste the famous 7 Layers Tea of Sreemangal.
Overnight at Sreemangal (Hotel D'More)
Sun, 03 Aug 2025
Day-3: Tribal Villages; Manipuri Market
Start at 09.00 after breakfast, and a scenic drive (1h30 min) through the tea plantations to a remote village of the Khasi tribe in an old 4x4 vehicle. This village is so remote, people from here hardly ever go to even the nearest town! You'll visit their houses, listen to the challenges they face every day, and visit their school, which we support by bringing study materials on our tours. Drive back toward Sreemangal and visit another remote village of the Tripura tribe on the way, whose primary source of income is growing lime and pineapple. Back to the resort in the evening.
Overnight at Sreemangal (Hotel D'More)
Mon, 04 Aug 2025
Day 4: Lawachara National Park - Train to Chittagong
In the morning, go for a rewarding wildlife trek through the Lawachara National Park in search of the endangered Hoolock Gibbons, for which this forest is famous. After the launch, visit another beautiful tea estate and see the tea deposit activities (if available). Workers stand in a queue, weigh the tea leaves they've collected during the day, and deposit them in the trucks in the afternoon, which is photogenic. Visit a colony of tea workers afterwards and experience their lifestyle. Take a train to Chittagong at 1:00 PM and arrive around 7:00 PM.
Overnight at Chittagong (Hotel Jatra Flagship).
Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Day 5: WWII Cemetery – Salt Factories – Ship Breaking Yard – Return to Dhaka
After breakfast, begin the day with a visit to the World War II Cemetery, a serene and historically significant site commemorating the Allied soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War. Following the cemetery visit, proceed to explore several local salt factories, where you will have the opportunity to observe traditional salt production methods. Next, embark on a one-hour drive to reach the ship-breaking yard, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Here, witness the immense scale and manual labor involved in dismantling decommissioned ships. This visit will be conducted from a safe distance aboard a motorised engine boat. Drive 80 km (2.5) to Chittagong to take an evening flight to Dhaka.
Overnight at Dhaka (Hotel Platinum Residence).
Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Day 06: Sonargon - Garment Factory Tour
After breakfast, drive to Sonargaon, located approximately 35 kilometres to the southeast (about a 1.5-hour drive, depending on traffic conditions). Historically recognised as the ancient capital of eastern Bengal, Sonargaon served as a thriving administrative and commercial hub. Visit to the Goaldi Mosque, a rare surviving example of pre-Mughal architecture dating back to the 16th century. Continue to the Folk Art and Craft Museum, housed in the restored Sardar Bari, a stately mansion showcasing traditional Bangladeshi arts, crafts, and textiles. The museum offers a vivid display of the country’s cultural richness and artisan legacy. Next, proceed to Panam Nagar, the remarkable abandoned city once inhabited by wealthy Hindu cotton merchants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Stroll through these historic urban settlements, characterised by their narrow streets and rows of elegant colonial-style mansions. These structures, now in ruins, reflect the opulence of a bygone era and are a photographer’s paradise. In the afternoon, proceed to a garment factory—an integral part of Bangladesh’s economy and global textile supply chain. Take a guided tour of the facility to witness various stages of garment production, including dyeing, spinning, cutting, stitching, and quality control. You’ll observe how thousands of workers, mostly women, operate in synchronised precision to meet international fashion demands. Return to Dhaka in the late afternoon.
Overnight at Dhaka (Hotel Platinum Residence).
Thur, 07 Aug 2025
Day 07: Departure
Drop you off at the airport according to your flight.
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Group Size & Prices
1-2 People: 950 USD p/p
3-5 People: 800 USD p/p
5-8 People: 650 USD p/p
9-10 People: 500 USD p/p
Available Spaces - 10
Tour Includes
● LOI for Visa on Arrival
● All airport transfers in Bangladesh
● All domestic flights
● AC Train tickets
● Permits where applicable
● All accommodation in hotels, including complimentary breakfast
● All transportation
● All boat rides mentioned in the itinerary.
● An air-conditioned car, a driver, and an English-speaking guide
● All entrance tickets
● All taxes.
Does not include
● Any food or drinks other than those mentioned above.
● Tips to guide, drivers and boatmen
● International flight & visa
Other things to know
● Lunch and dinner will cost about $5 US per meal at a local restaurant and $20-$30
US per meal at a Western restaurant.
● Tipping is expected in Bangladesh. The tipping amount should reflect the quality of
service provided by each person.
● The difficulty level of this trip is Moderate. A reasonable level of fitness is required.
The tour itinerary is fully packed, and the days would be long - about 8 to 10 hours
every day (you can skip a morning or evening, though, if you wish). You'll need to
navigate through a heavy crowd in Dhaka. Some days involve long walks (which you
can skip if you wish).
Terms and conditions
● This will be a totally Group tour, which means others can join.
● We will require a 30% deposit of the total tour price during the booking. The rest has to be paid on the day of your arrival with 50-100 USD notes.
● Tourist sites in Bangladesh have off days on different days of the week and during government holidays. Because of this, some sites on the tour might be closed during your visit. In that case, you'll be able to see these sites only from the outside.
● In case of a natural disaster or national emergency, Been Tours reserves the right to change the itinerary to accommodate the situation.
● Been Tours reserves the right to change any hotel in the tour to a similar one
● You can not disclose the name and location of any villages, markets, and bazaars anywhere on this tour to save these places from flooding by the local tourists. Doing so will restrict these places for future guests' visits, which has happened before with many sites we used to take our guests.
● Been Tours reserves the right to correct any mistakes in this document.
Covid-19 Protection &Cancellation
Home Country Lockdown Red List
If your home country is under lockdown during the tour or puts Bangladesh on the Red List, you'll be able to cancel the tour free of charge. We will keep your deposit as a credit for three years. You will be able to use it for booking any tour with us in the future. No refund will be provided. You have to notify us by email within 48 hours of any such
announcement by your government to be eligible for this offer. If notified after 48 Hours, this protection will not apply, and the regular cancellation charge will apply instead.
Cancellation by the Client
Cancellation from 30 days to 14 days before the tour:
For private tours: Free of charge. We will keep the deposit as a credit for three years. You will be able to use it for booking any tour with us in the future. No refund will be provided.
For group tours: 20% of the total tour price will be charged, and the rest of the deposit will be refunded.
Cancellation less than 15 days before the tour:
No Refunds will be provided.
Cancellation by Been Tours
If Been Tours cancels a booking for any unexpected reason, we will give you an option to move the booking to a different period without any additional charges, if that works for you.
If the above does not work, we'll provide a full refund of the deposit or keep it as a credit for three years.