Dublar Char

Dublar Char is a small beautiful island on the southern side of the Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans , southeast of Hiran Point and southwest of Katkar. Dublar Char is best known for Hindu devotees' bathing, Rasmela and Harin. Between the Kunga and the river of dead animals, this isolated dublar char has arisen.

All the families of Dublar Char are fishermen so it can be called fishing village. In addition to fishing, dry cleaning is also done here. During the rainy season, fishermen from Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Bagerhat, Pirojpur, Satkhira and Khulna come in groups to Dublar Char and set up temporary settlements. Dried seeds from Dublar Char are stored and sold in the wholesale market of Asadganj, Chittagong. Only fishermen can enter the Dublar Char with permission to collect fish from the Eastern Division Headquarters at Bagerhat, Sundarbans.

Every year in the month of Kartika (November) a three-day Rasmela of Hindus is held at Dublar Char. Local and foreign tourists come from far and wide to see this Ras Mela which is almost a hundred years old. Plan ahead if you want to visit this isolated dubla char rush mela. You will remember this experience forever.

Usually the trawler or tourist vessel hired for going to Dublar Char has night stay and food facilities and everything else.

Bagerhat can be easily reached by Sakura Paribahan, Sohag Paribahan, Meghna Paribahan, Tourist Transport etc. buses from Gabtali or Syedabad bus terminal of Dhaka via Padma bridge. Then you can hire a boat to go to Dublar Char from Mongla port in Bagerhat. But the best is to take a direct bus to Mongla from Syedabad bus stand. In this case, you can go to Sundarbans and tourist service bus for 650 to 700 taka per person.

If you want to stay in Dublar Char, you can stay at the tourist launch. Apart from this, you can stay overnight at Nilakmal at Hiran Point, Kachikhali at Tiger Point and Katkay Forest Department rest houses. 3000 rupees per room in Neelkamal and Kachikhali. But if you rent 4 rooms in Kachikhali, you can stay for 10,000 rupees. It takes 2000 taka to take a room at Katka rest house. Foreign travelers have to pay Tk 5000 per room to spend the night in these rest houses.

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