Bibir Pukur

Type: Pond

Contributed By: Nayeem

Brief

Bibir Pukur is the most popular and ancient pond of Barisal City. In Bengali, Pukur means pond. It is located in the heart of Barisal city.

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How to go

After reaching Barisal, you can use local transport to reach that place.

How To Reach: Barisal District

Barisal is connected with Dhaka both by roads and rivers.

You can travel to Barisal district by road as well. Several buses drive from Gabtoli bus stand every hour to Barisal. Most of the buses go to Barisal by crossing Paturiya Ghat, but some of the bus services may also go by passing through Mawa Ghat.

Some of the names of buses that travel from Dhaka to Barisal are:

1. Sakura Paribahan, Contact: 01190658772, 01729556677
2. Eagle Paribahan, Contact: 02-9006700
3. Hanif Paribahan, Contact: 01713049559

Each bus leaves every hour from 6:00am until 10pm. The reaching point is Nokhullabad bus stand in Barisal and the journey may take 6 to 8 hours.

General bus rates:

AC Bus fare: Tk 700
Non AC bus fare: Tk 500
Local bus fare: Tk 250-Tk 300

Launch is the most comfortable and relatively safe option to travel to Barisal district from Dhaka. Quite a few launches drive to Barisal district from Dhaka at Sadarghat terminal. Some of them have been listed below for your assistance.

1. Shurobhi
2. Sundarbans
3. Kirtonkhola
4. Kalam Khan

Launch starts from Sadarghat at 8:00 pm and is expected to reach Barisal launch Ghat within 8 to 10 hours.

Rate of single cabin: Tk 850
Rate of double Cabin: Tk 2600
Rate of Deck: Tk 250

Barisal is also connected to Dhaka through air. Flight starts from Dhaka airport and arrive at Barisal. United airways are currently the only airline, offering flights to Barisal from Dhaka. Plane fare starts from BDT 3925. For more information, go to United Airways.

Where to Stay

Some of the hotels available in Barisal district are as follows:-

1. Hotel Paradise Two International
Cell: +88-01717-072686, +88-01724-853590

2. Hotel Grand Plaza
Cell: +88-01711-357318, +88-01917-458088

3. Hotel Athena International
Phone: +88-0431-65109, +88-0431-65233.

4. Hotel Haq International
Cell: +88-01718-587698

Eating Facilities

Referred to where to eat in Barisal district, click here

Map

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From the top of the building, you can enjoy the both buriganga river, and the pond. Also at the far side you can see the dome of the Ahsan Manjil Palace.

This pond was made during 1886 by Nawab Abdul Bari. That's why some people used to call this as "Nawab Abdul Bari Pukur". It’s a nice place to watch, especially from the top.

Now a days the Pond is monitored and managed by the "Moulovi Khawaja Abdullah Welfare Trust". People used to take bath at this pond, but they have to pay for this. If you want to visit the place, you can take your shorts with you, so that you can throw your body at the water of the pond. It’s not that much high price to take a bath there.

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Shila Devir Ghat is an archaeological spot which is situated at the Mahasthangarh of Shibganj from Bogra district. This ghat is just around 200 meter apart from the Mahastangarh, and it’s beside the river Korotoa.

According to the legend, the Shila Devi was the beautiful daughter of the king Parshurama, some people used to say she was the sister of the King Porshurama. After the war with King Shah Sultan, Shila Devi jumped inside the water of the Korota River to save her honor, and drowned herself.

The spot is known as the Ghat of Shila devi. But the scholars are counting this story as a myth. They believe that the original name of the place was 'Shila Dvipa', that means the island of stone. Anyway, the Hindus used to celebrate the Paus Narayani Bath annually at here.

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This pond is a private property. This pond was dug in 1854 by Late Haji MD. Boduruddin or Votto Haji and his brother. The owner of this pond is very careful about this as its neat and clean. Every side of the pond is plastered well. Also they have kept a road at the every side of the pond, you can use that as your evening or morning walk.

According to the noticeboard, it is 930 ft. or 275 meter if you walk for one round at the pond's perimeter. So, six round will make you one mile, and 4 round will make you around 1 kilometer. They are encouraging the people to walk for good health.

Finally, you can take a bath at the pond's water. It will take only 2 taka per person for the bath. Local people take bath at the both ghat of the pond. There are a cool bridge at the proximity of the pond.

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At the North Bengal Sugar Mills Ltd. at Gopalpur in Natore district, about one hundred innocent people, officers, laborers, staffs and others of the mills, were killed on the staircase of a pond in the main mill premises by machine gun burst-fire on May 5, 1971 by the beastly Pakistani soldiers. This holy pond is now called “Shaheed Sagar” by the local people.

On 1971 30th March in Lalpur Upazila, 4km to north of Gopalpur in Moynapur Village there was a war of Khan Senas. Next day when Major Reza Khan planned to escape he was shot by the public. In order to prevent Pakistani army for landing on the airport the local people demanding freedom broke the runway and maid the Iswardi Airport inactive. There was a horrendous condition in the town yet for the sake of sugar cane cultivators, each people were assigned individual responsibilities in the mills. In May 5 1971 despite the surrounding conditions Mill was active.

Then suddenly a group of Pakistani soldiers with the help of some Rajakaars entered the mill. The brush fired and killed the administrator Lt. Anwarul Azim and other employees of the mill. After killing them they left all the dead bodies in the pond. After Liberation this pond was named as Sagor Dighi. In 1973 in memory of Lt. Anwarul Azim Gopalpur railway station was named as Azimpur Station.

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