Gangamati Reserved Forest (Kuakata)

Type: Forest

Contributed By: Nayeem

Brief

It’s an additional part of Sundarban forest and it protects the inner inhabitants against any tidal surge. The Gangamati Reserved Forest is a small mangrove forest in Kuakata. It is very close from the hotel belt in Kuakata.

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How to go

From Kuakata beach, Gangamati Reserved Forest is in the eastern end of the Kuakata beach. You can get local transport (bike) to reach Gangamati Reserved. BRTC bus reaches Kuakata from Dhaka, departing from Saidabad bus terminal. It usually takes about 12 hours to reach there. The BRTC buses are comparatively good.

How To Reach: Patuakhali District

From the capital of Dhaka to Patuakhali, there are three options of transport available. Basic information about these routes to reach Patuakhali has been mentioned in the other part.

The road distance from Dhaka to Patuakhali is 319 km. You can take a bus from Sayedabad or Gabtoli counters of Dhaka to reach Patuakhali. There are two routes by bus to arrive at Patuakhali district. One goes from Dhaka to Mawa to Barisal to Patuakhali and another one drives from Dhaka to Aricha to Barisal to Patuakhali. The bus fare generally ranges from Tk 450 to Tk 700.

Some of the bus services are listed below:

1. Saudia Paribahan:
Bus leaves from Dhaka every hour from 10 am to 12 pm.
Sayedabad Counter, Phone number: 01919654856, 01919564857
Bus Rate: Tk 300 (Approx.)

2. Abdullah Paribahan:
First trip 7:00 am – Last trip 7:30 pm
Bus Rate: Tk 300 (Approx.)

3. Hanif Paribahan:
Contact: 01713049559

4. Eagle Paribahan:
Bus leaves every 45 minutes starting from 6am to 11:45pm
Bus Rate: Tk 350 (Approx.)

Launch is a comfortable and low expense transport to go from Dhaka to Patuakhali. From Sadarghat of Dhaka, two to three launches drive to Patuakhali. The launches usually start at 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm and 7 pm and arrive in the destination at 6 am of the following morning.

Names of some of the launch services are: Saikat, Sattar Khan, Achol and Sundarban.

Rent is usually as follows:
Deck: Tk 150
Single Cabin: Tk 350
Double Cabin: Tk600
Family: Tk 700
VIP and AC: Tk 1500
*All fares are subject to approximation and may slightly differ with original rates due to change in certain factors.

Barisal is also connected to Dhaka through air. Flight starts from Dhaka airport and arrive at Barisal Airport. From there on, you have to take a road transport to reach the district of Patuakhali.
Biman bangladesh is currently the only airline, offering flights to Barisal from Dhaka.
Plane fare starts from BDT TK 3000. For more information about Biman, check out their official website.

Where to Stay

There are many hotels in Patuakhali to stay in. Some of them have been listed below for your assistance.

1. Hotel Banani Palace
Contact: 01713-674189

2. Hotel Kuakata Inn
Kuakata Parjatan area,
Sadar Road, Kolapara,
Patuakhali,Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 0442856031
Mobile: +88 01750008177-78, +88 01555012500

3. Hotel Sky Palace
Contact: 0177-507479

4. Beach Haven
Contact: 01730021341

5. Hotel Nilanjona
Address: Opposite of Rakhain Women Market,
Kuakata, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 0442-856014, 856018
Mobile: +88 01712-927904

6. Hotel Mohona
Address: Kuakata Parjatan Area,
Kuakata, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.

Things to do

You can view a small portion of Mangrove forest with variety trees and plants in this forest such as keora, gewa, baen, kankra, goran, hetal, golpata. Different wild animals like wild boar, deer donkey exist there and you might also see varieties of bird.
Evening is the ideal time for viewing the sun caste shadows on the abstract open mangrove roots.

Eating Facilities

There are lots of restaurant in Kuakata. You can just walk into any of those. They offer different kinds of cuisine along with sea foods.

Map

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Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary is a reserved forest lies at the border of Bangladesh-India. There are some local inhabitants living inside the forest dispersedly. A Tipra (Tripura) tribal village is near at the border. This forest is rich with flora & fauna and a hideout for a number of rare animals of Bangladesh. It is also a great place for forest trekkers.

Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary was established in 1982. It’s extensive to an area of 1795.54 hectares. This reserve forest is formed with the combination of two forest bits. One is known as Rema, another known as Kalenga Forest Bit. You may visit both or either one of the bits. You can enter to the reserve forest through any of the forest bit and exit through another.

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Karamjol Wildlife Rescue Center is one of the wonderful visiting place in Sundarbans. To appreciate and to view the most cherished species of Bangladesh’s wildlife, thousands of visitors make their way to Karamjol, a ranger station deep in the forest that also serves as a deer-breeding center. Bangladesh has some exquisite wildlife species that are unique to the country, and Karamjol is one of the gateways to the majestic wildlife sanctuary in Sundarbans.

Karamjol is a forest station for the Rangers. Here you can see a dear breeding center. To visit Sundarban you need to go there with a guide and it is even better if you go there with a group. You can stay two/three days in Sundarban depending on your desire and requirements. One-day tour is not enough for Sundarban as you will not be able to see the nature in haste. For one-day tour you can go up to Karamjol and at a glance visit the outer portion of Sundarbans forest areas.

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Rubber Forest is not just a forest to look over, it’s a popular place now a days for tracking, wondering, picnic center and so on. While exploring Mymensingh, there are some extra-ordinary places to pay a visit. Rubber forest/garden of Santoshpur in fulbaria Upazila is one of those. Fulbaria rubber forest and processing industries is one of the renowned places in this district. ORB Team recently visited that place while exploring the heritage of Mymensingh.

It belongs to an area of 106 acres which make this place look like a massive forest. Besides rubber garden there is a significant number of monkeys being found in a place inside the forest. Where you will also find a small forest office. Local people call this as Bandar office (বান্দর অফিস/বানর অফিস) which is very funny indeed. Nearby the office you may discover monkeys wondering around in a particular area with pride & dignity, as it seems like you just entered into their territory. It would be wise not exchanging any food with them, people may suggest you to buy them some peanuts. Once you buy for them, certainly they will be obedient for you and may follow your go.

Rubber Processing Zone:

One and half kilometer from Monkey zone, a traveler will find an industry of Rubber processing which is very near to the link road, connecting the forest with main road. It’s named after "Bangladesh Forest Development Corporation, Rubber processing factory". Here a traveler can observe the whole methods of rubber processing. However, if someone is interested to observe the methods from the very beginning of collecting raw rubber from the trees, then we would rather suggest to stay in nearby places of forest for one or two days. But, it would be so tough to stay nearby places beside the forest as there is no residential hotel or boarding to stay overnight.

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Fatrar char is the nice tourist place near Kuakata beach. From Kuakata traveler may visit the Fatrar Chor. Fatrar Chor is the part of the Sundarban forest. Fatrar Char is also known as Fatrar Bon. As the Fatrar Char is the part of Sundarban so it is mangrove forest. Fatrar Bon is fairly big forest in Kuakata. There are many Timber trees available here. The tree of this forest in very hard and strong. And the wood of this trees are very long lasting and also costly. A wood business is started at that place and these woods are supplied in all over the country.

At first traveler have to rent an engine boat near the beach. It may take about an hour boat journey from Kuakata sea beach. After the thrilling journey traveler will reach at Fatrar chor or Fatrar bon. There is a nice canal in that place and forest beside the canal. Now traveler should enter at the forest after taking the permission from forest camp. There are many wild birds, some monkey, some rabbit, deer and some other animal found at that jungle.

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