10 Places You Must Visit in Dhaka

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 3:20pm

10 Places You Must Visit in Dhaka

Hi there.

If you plan to visit Dhaka, The capital city of Bangladesh then this post is absolutely for you.

Even you are from abroad or from other cities of Bangladesh. I hope this will help you a lot. Here I will be sharing about 10 places that you should visit when you are in Dhaka.

Well, there are many places to visit besides this 10. I am adding them to an additional list.

So, Let’s go…

First of all…

Place 1: Bangladesh National Museum

Location: Shahbagh, Dhaka-1000

Open all day in a week except Thursday. Entry ticket needed and you have to put your bag and baggage on the locker counter.

Place 2: Liberation War Museum Bangladesh

Location: Sher-e Bangla Nagar, Civic Centre, Agargaon, Dhaka

All day open except Sunday. Ticket needed. But occasionally free for all. I love this place a lot. You can find the total history of the liberation war of Bangladesh.

Place 3: Bangladesh National Zoo.

Location: Zoo Road, Mirpur, Dhaka

All day open except Sunday. Need to purchase a ticket to enter. A lovely place for pass time. Kids friendly place. Well decorated. Tigers, Lions, Hippos and many animals are there.

Place 4: Mirpur Botanic Garden, National Area

Location: Zoo Road, Mirpur, Dhaka. Just beside of national zoo.

All day open in a week from 6 to 6. The place is very friendly, natural and authentic. Far from heavy traffic and bad condition of Dhaka. People loves to visit the place a lot. Two years back we organized a meet up there.

Place 5: Independence Tower.

Location: Sohrawardi Uddan, Dhaka.

The place is open 24 a day and 7 days a week. Very amazing place and this place have a great significance in our history. There is also an underground museum. People love to visit the place a lot. I also went there several time.

Place 6: Lalbagh Fort

Location: Lalbagh Rd, Dhaka 1205.

Open all day except for Sunday. Sunday is the first working day of the week. The place is really amazing and very authentic. Old place but loving to all people of Dhaka. One of the most loving place to me in Dhaka. A ticket is needed to enter the area. A 360 captured by me.

Place 7: Ahsan Manzil

Location: 2/3 Islampur Rd, Sadarghat, Dhaka

One of the great place of Dhaka. Built in British period. The place is open all day except for Thursday. Ticket needed to enter. Kids friendly and natural.

Place 8: Bangladesh Air Force Museum

Location: BAF Base Bashar, Begum Rokeya Ave, Dhaka.

I visited this place more than 10 times. Kids friendly. Run and maintained by Bangladesh Air Force. Only Sunday is close and other days are open. Lots of airplanes are stored there. Even anybody can enter the plane and see inside.A 360 captured by me.

Place 9: The Shaheed Minar

Location: Secretariate Road, Dhaka 1000.

The place is always open for all. No entry ticket. This place carries the significance of the Language Movement here. Must visit place in Dhaka. It reminds me a lot and makes me think all the time.

Place 10: National Parliament House

Location: Manik Mia Ave, Dhaka

This place is restricted to the general public. But a good view can be observed from the front side and from the park side. Kids friendly place. People usually gather to see in the afternoon time.

Well, At this point we had seen them all 10 place that should be visited during Dhaka visit. Here, Not I am going to list some additional place that you can also visit at dhaka.

OK, I think this enough for a single tour. But there is many more place to visit in Dhaka. Dhaka is really an amazing city with a large population.

Have fun and enjoy the city. If someone coming let us know. We can help you out there.

Regards

Sajol Kumar Das

Bangladesh.

MahabubMunna · February 3, 2018, 3:27pm

@SajolKDas আমার ৫ আর ৮ নাম্বার জায়গায় যাওয়া বাকি রইছে । কভার দেয়া লাগব

MahabubMunna · February 3, 2018, 3:30pm

@OSAMA @LucioV @ErmesT @FaridTDF look at this . for more understand out Dhaka city

RomanSyed · February 3, 2018, 3:33pm

ঢাকায় এতো কিছু আসে দেখার। লিস্ট দেইখা দেইখা এবার শুরু করবো

PavelSarwar · February 3, 2018, 3:56pm

@SajolKDas I am lucky

I visited all.

ErmesT · February 3, 2018, 3:57pm

OMG @SajolKDas , you are giving us material for an year of post and meetup. I am so happy @MahabubMunna , that you tagged me!!

Let me invite in here also the Captain @KarenVChin

Now, if you want to know my opinion, Sajol, I think this is a great starting point for an amazing series of post that you guy can write, to help the people that want to visit Dhaka.

As you may know, I wrote (with the help of Karen) a kind of guideline that can be useful for this: Traveling Like a Local

Let me know what do you think about this. We will be happy to help you guys. Are you with us, @SoniaK ?

Ermes

Meraj · February 3, 2018, 4:01pm

@SajolKDas ভাই আপনাকে অনেক ধন্যবাদ। গুরুত্ব পূর্ন স্থান গুলো শেয়ার করার জন্য।

এর মধ্যে এখনো ৩টিতে যাওয়া আমার হয়নি। দেখি আগামী মাসে একটি সফর দেওয়র পরিকল্পনা আছে তখন ঐ ৩টি সম্পন্ন করে ফেলবো।

SazzadShawon · February 3, 2018, 4:03pm

2-3 ta baki ache amr

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 4:14pm

@MahabubMunna lets go together. You have 2 left. We can finish this together.

We will have fun there.

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 4:18pm

@RomanSyed আরে আর আছে। মাত্র এই কয়টা দেয়া আছে মাত্র।

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 4:19pm

@SazzadShawon vai lets plan together and visit some.

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 4:21pm

@Meraj লিখার জন্য ধন্যবাদ। আগামি মাসে গেলে আমাদের গ্রুপে জানিয়ে যেতে পারেন। তাতে আপনি কিছু সফর সঙ্গিপেতে পারেন।

SajolKDas · February 3, 2018, 4:50pm

Thanks, @ErmesT writing up here.

I am also planning to write something more about Dhaka. Then a traveler will get a proper guideline to move here like a local.

Your post was very informative and photos are really great. That’s a good idea.

@SoniaK Apu can also join here.

FaridTDF · February 3, 2018, 6:14pm

Que buenas recomendaciones @SajolKDas , muy buenas todas, para tenerlo en cuenta cuando viajemos por allí

gracias @Nahbubnunn por el tag, es un lugar digno de ser incluido en una guia de viajes.

saludos Farid

SajolKDas · February 4, 2018, 5:57am

Gracias por escribir aquí. Como estoy alojado en Dhaka, esta es una gran oportunidad para que otros conozcan la ciudad.

@FaridTDF

EasinRaseL · February 4, 2018, 6:27am

@SajolKDas you missed our great National Martyr’s Monument. I am adding with short description.

National Martyrs’ Memorial (Bengali: জাতীয় স্মৃতি সৌধ Jatiya Smriti Saudha) is the national monument of Bangladesh, set up in the memory of the valour and the sacrifice of all those who gave their lives in the Bangladesh Liberation Warof 1971, which brought independence and separated Bangladesh from Pakistan. The monument is located in Savar, about 35 km north-west of the capital, Dhaka. It was designed by Syed Mainul Hossain.

For More Details Visit

SajolKDas · February 4, 2018, 4:18pm

@EasinRaseL ভাই অনেক ধন্যবাদ এখানে পোস্ট করার জন্য।

খুব ভাল হয়েছে। আসলে এই যায়গাটি ঢাকা শহরের বাইরে। তাই সংযুক্ত করা হয় নি। তবে বিস্তারির লিখব।

SoniaK · February 5, 2018, 5:56am

@ErmesT wrote:

OMG @SajolKDas , you are giving us material for an year of post and meetup. I am so happy @MahabubMunna , that you tagged me!!

Let me invite in here also the Captain @KarenVChin

Now, if you want to know my opinion, Sajol, I think this is a great starting point for an amazing series of post that you guy can write, to help the people that want to visit Dhaka.

As you may know, I wrote (with the help of Karen) a kind of guideline that can be useful for this: Traveling Like a Local

Let me know what do you think about this. We will be happy to help you guys. Are you with us, @SoniaK ?

Ermes

I am always with you, @ErmesT , especially when it comes to visiting my own country.

Loved reading your post. How come I have never seen it before? This is like a traveler’s Bible. I think you need to continue the post as episode 1, 2, 3… and finally make it printed. It will be really helpful

@SajolKDas , this is indeed a great post. It sure will help our fellow local guides to decide on visiting our loving country. Please just don’t stop it here. Highlight other cities of the country as well, so that the travelers in the Local Guides crowd can make up their mind on when and where to go, if they plan to visit Bangladesh. Thumbs up for the post. (I wish I could give you few more kudos.)

SoniaK · February 5, 2018, 6:01am

@SajolKDas wrote:

Thanks, @ErmesT writing up here.

I am also planning to write something more about Dhaka. Then a traveler will get a proper guideline to move here like a local.

Your post was very informative and photos are really great. That’s a good idea.

@SoniaK Apu can also join here.

I am always with my very own Local Guides, @SajolKDas . You can count me in on all sorts of activities. I love you guys too much to say NO.

KarenVChin · February 6, 2018, 12:13am

Well done @SajolKDas ! This is fantastic that you put this Dhaka “Must Visit” List. I can hear and see @ErmesT cries of joy when he read your post all the way here in San Francisco!

I don’t know if you have already made a Google Maps List yet, but you should! Googler @kmajewski has a new List Challenge that your list will be perfect: List challenge: share your city’s museums and cultural landmarks

Cheers,

Karen