This Buddhist monastery serves as a useful landmark.
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26.79 MILES
Bandarban has a small street market most days, but the place really throngs on Sunday and Wednesday when traders come in from across the district to buy…
0.61 MILES
This museum is rather unexpectedly housed in a mock-Tudor mansion. Among its much-revered collection is the microphone and transmitter with which…
1.2 MILES
As in Dhaka, the city’s oldest area is the waterfront part called Sadarghat, and as in Dhaka, it’s a cacophony of sensual assaults. The early arrival of…
0.97 MILES
This sombre cemetery contains the graves of hundreds of soldiers from both Allied and Japanese forces who died on the Burma front. Many are inscribed with…
0.5 MILES
The Central Bazar is a warren of alleyways between the lower ends of Jubilee and Station Rds. It’s almost impossible not to lose your way among the…
29.8 MILES
The Hanging Bridge, a low suspension bridge, not far from the Parjatan Holiday Complex, is another popular boat-trip destination.
26.94 MILES
This small museum offers some interesting insights into the traditional cultures of the Hill Tracts. There are displays of tribal dress, jewellery,…
1.4 MILES
The interesting Ethnological Museum has displays on Bangladesh’s tribal people. Unfortunately, it isn’t always open when it should be. Some of the…
Nearby Chittagong attractions
0.5 MILES
The Central Bazar is a warren of alleyways between the lower ends of Jubilee and Station Rds. It’s almost impossible not to lose your way among the…
0.61 MILES
This museum is rather unexpectedly housed in a mock-Tudor mansion. Among its much-revered collection is the microphone and transmitter with which…
0.85 MILES
Accessible from Tiger Pass Rd, this park gives good views over Chittagong.
6. St Placid (Old Portuguese Church)
0.91 MILES
Church in the Paterghatta, the old Portuguese quarter of Chittagong.
0.97 MILES
This sombre cemetery contains the graves of hundreds of soldiers from both Allied and Japanese forces who died on the Burma front. Many are inscribed with…
1.2 MILES
As in Dhaka, the city’s oldest area is the waterfront part called Sadarghat, and as in Dhaka, it’s a cacophony of sensual assaults. The early arrival of…