1.Nilachal & Shuvronila
This is the nearest tourist spot from Bandarban. It is situated at tiger Para. The spot is under joint management of district council & office of the district commission. It is near about 2000 fit above of sea level and 5 K.M away from the Bandarban town. From this you can have a total glimpse of Bandarban town and a vast landscape. In the rainy season you can be thrilled walking through the clouds. You can watch a golden twilight in the evening and also can enjoy an evergreen moonlight in the moonlit night. One can never imagine how it looks like during the winter season, it is just awesome all about the foggy morning. On the way to Nilachal, you will see some tribe villages with their raw natural expression. So welcome to Nilachal & Shuvronila.
Food & Accommodation :- This tourist spot is still under construction. Yet there is no food and accommodation facility. The authority have already erected infrastructures for restaurant and rest house. It will start near future. So if you want to stay long there you have to take your food and drinking water from Bandarban town.
Communication :- It is just 5 km. away from Bandarban town. You can hire privet Jeep and auto rickshaw.
2. Shoylo Prapat
It is 8km away from Bandarban town on the Bandarban Ruma road. This is one of the most famous and visited natural fall of Bangladesh. You can hear the purl of this fall throughout the year. The flow of this fall becomes vigorous during the rainy season. The water of this fall is so transparent and cool. It is a good source for drinking water and household use for the local bawm community. For availability of water here has grown 2/3 bawm village. It has become the main center for their economic activities. There is a small market for selling bawm handicrafts, handloom products and local food in shoylo prapat. You can see closely the struggling life of bawm community here in shoylo propat.
Food & Accommodations :- There is no arrangement for Food & Accommodations in shoylo propat. You have to carry drinking water and food with your own management. There are some tea stalls run by bawm people in shoylo propat.
Communication :- Chander gari (public jeep) is available from Bandarban town to shoylo propat or you can hire auto rickshaw/private jeep to get there.
3. Prantik Lake
With abundant natural beauties Prantik Lake lies in Holodia near the Keranihat-Bandarban road. It is 14km away from Bandarban town. It requires 30mnt’s drive. It covers an area of 2500acre. The management authority of this lake is LGED. This lake is surrounded by a good many varieties of trees. It has been regarded a natural habitat for different bird species. This lake is an ideal place for fishing. You can have fishing opportunity in this lake with the permission of the authority. It is an ideal place for excursion and family tour in solitude.
Food & Accommodations :- There is no arrangement for Food & Accommodations in Prantik lake. You can pass the whole day but before evening you have to return Bandarban. You have to carry drinking water and food with your own management.
Communication :- Local bus is available from Bandarban to Holodia. From Holodia you can take a auto rickshaw to Prantik Lake or you can hire a Jeep.
4.Chimbuk
Chimbuk is the third highest mountain of Bangladesh. This is one of the most recognized familiar tourist spot just 26km away from Bandarban sadar. It’s about 2500ft high above sea level. You will definitely be charmed having glimpses of the zigzag way heading to chimbuk, nilgiri respectively. While your jeep is moving through the various indigenous villages, their simplicity in human gestures will compel you to think about our predecessors struggles to cope with to maintain existence. They are as generous as nature. Here nature nourishes her offspring with utmost love in her lap. When you are looking down from Chimbuk, it will get you the feelings of floating over the clouds. When it is a shiny day, you can see the shades of clouds over the hills. The huge horizon of zigzag hills seem waves of a sea.
Food and accommodation :- There is an well managed canteen in this place. Yon can avail snacks here. There are two govt owned rest houses to stay here. If you want to stay there, you have to confirm the reservation with the authority at first.
Communication :- Chimbuk is 26 kilometer away from Bandarban sadar. Tourists can go there by Thanci bound bus or jeep. But better option is to hire a private vehicle. On the way to Chimbuk you have to register your name and address with the military check post.
5. Boga Lake
This is the highest natural lake of Bangladesh. It is 3000fts above sea level & 18km away from Ruma Sadar Upazilla. This lake has covered and area of 15acre. The colour of the water is blue. There are many mythological stories behind the creation of this lake. Thousands of tourists make their way to Bagalake every year, specially in the winter season. Small tribe community like Bawm, Khumi have localities beside the Baga lake. The communication to Baga lake becomes very difficult in the Rainy season. The road from Ruma to Baga lake is still under construction. You can go to Baga lake from Ruma by “Chander Gari” (public jeep) in winter season. But transportation is not always available there. There waiting lots of excitements and enthusiasm for you at Baga lake. You will certainly be amazed looking at the big rocks lying in and out of the Baga lake. You can have a camp fire beside the lake, that will be miraculous and unfaded memory in your life. So welcome to Baga lake to create a memory walks before you.
Food & Accommodation :- At first you have to go Ruma from Bandarban Sadar. On the way you have to register your name, contact address and other details in the respective security camp. For your kind notice, it is apprised that you are not allowed to leave Ruma for Baga lake after 4pm. So you have to arrange the trip with proper calculation of time.
Communication :- You have to make a trip at first from Bandarban to Ruma by “Chander Gari” (public jeep) or a private vehicle. From Ruma you can hire public jeep upto Baga lake. You can also have a walk for Baga lake in winter season. It will requires 6hrs to reach Baga lake.
6. Rijuk Fall
When you are heading to Thanchi to Ruma by a boat you can have the glance of an exotic fall that is Rijuk Fall. Throughout the year this fall remains singing on the bank of Sango River. One can hardly control his impulses to get a shower under this fall. It has increased the surrounding beauty manifolds. It is much convenient to take an engine boat up to Rijuk. Remoteness doesn’t always bear total seclusion as when you see untouched nature there, it will make you the most natural and very close to your heart strings. This can happen with you at the sight of Rijuk Fall. Round the year you can go there but during the rainy season you can have the most rejuvenated glance of this fall. That’s the refreshing season for the nature full of cool greenery making you feel harmony with nature.
Food & Accommodation :- Yet there is no food and accommodation facility. The authority has a future plan to make infrastructures for restaurant and rest house. It will start near future. So if you want to stay long there you have to take your food and drinking water from Ruma Bazar.
Communication :- You have to make a trip at first from Bandarban to Ruma by “Chander Gari” (public jeep) or a private vehicle. From Ruma you can hire a boat upto Rijuk.
7.Keokradong
Keokradong is the second highest mountain of Bangladesh. It is about 4332 ft high from the sea level. It is 30km away from the Ruma sadar Upazilla. During the winter season many adventurous tourists endeavor to visit this spectacular mountain. This remote hilly region is full of natural beauty. You can be overwhelmed at the first sight of this mountain. It is very close to the Myanmar border and you can see an endless courses of mountains and hills. This area is covered with dense forests full of beast and animals.
Food & Accommodations :- On the way to Keokradong one have to pause his journey at Bogalake for restoration. There is no other accommodation facility except the rest houses of district council in Bogalake. One have to start his walking early in the morning from Bogalake to reach Keokradong. It will require 5 to 6 hours to reach Keokradong. Tourists have to hold that night in the near about tribe village and they have to start for Bogalake next morning. Tourists have to carry dry food , water purifying tablet warm clothes, torch light, orsallaine, anti mosquito lotion and other necessary medicines. This journey is very much laborious, so it is better to avoid children and women to take along with you. There are some residential hotels in Ruma Bazar, so you have to confirm at first the hotel reservation before going to Ruma, otherwise you will have no alternative passing the night under the open sky. If you are fortunate you can avail tribal house to pass the night.
Communication :- Ruma is 50 kilometer away from Bandarban. Due to lack of developed communication and transportation it is a remote upzila Bangladesh. For visiting Keokradong you have to go to Ruma at first. On the way heading to Ruma you have to register your name & address in the nearby military check post. You should keep it mind that after 4 p.m nobody is allowed to leave Ruma for Boga Lake, Keokaradong, Tahjingdong. In rainy season you can go upto koikhhong jhiri by jeep. From that place you have to undertake one hour boat journey to Ruma. In winter season you can go up to Ruma Bridge Ghat and from the place you need 15 to 20 minutes boat journey to arrive in Ruma. From Ruma sadar you can hire pickup or jeep up to Boga Lake and you have to walk through the hills from Boga Lake to Keokradong.
8. Tahjingdong
Tahjingdong is the highest mountain of Bangladesh. According to local tribal language Tahjing means Great & Dong means Hill, combine expression is Great hill or Tahjingdong. The peak of this mountain is 4,300ft above sea level. It is situated in Remakri Pangsha union under Ruma upazilla of Bandarban. It is 25km away from the sadar upazilla. Thousands of tourist gather every year in Ruma upazilla to pay a visit of Tahjingdong. Besides this mountain there are various tribal community whose versatile cultures and living styles are so nature oriented. Once the way to Tahjingdong was thought invincible, but today a lot of tourists make this journey possible for the shake of beauty. Beauty is scattered everywhere on the way to Tahjingdong. During the rainy season its a real hardship to reach it. Specially in the winter season many tourists endeavour to reach it on foot as an adventure. At present one can reach close to the Keokradong by Chander Gari (Jeep). The remaining path has to be completed on foot. It is must for one to carry warm clothes during the winter season. In this respect walking habit will ease this tour.
Food & Accommodations :- On the way to Tahjingdong one have to pause his journey at Bogalake for restoration. There is no other accommodation facility except the rest houses of district council in Bogalake. One have to start his walking early in the morning from Bogalake to reach Tahjingdong. It will require 7 to 8 hours to reach Tahjingdong. Tourists have to hold that night in the near about tribe village and they have to start for Bogalake next morning. Tourists have to carry dry food , water purifying tablet warm clothes, torch light, orsallaine, anti mosquito lotion and other necessary medicines. This journey is very much laborious, so it is better to avoid children and women to take along with you. There are some residential hotel in Ruma Bazar, so you have to confirm at first the hotel reservation before going to Ruma, otherwise you will have no alternative passing the night under the open sky. If you are fortunate you can avail tribal house to pass the night.
Communication :- Ruma is 50 kilometer away from Bandarban. Due to lack of developed communication and transportation it is a remote upzila Bangladesh. For visiting Tahjingdong you have to go to Ruma at first. On the way heading to Ruma you have to register your name & address in the nearby military check post. You should keep it mind that after 4 p.m nobody is allowed to leave Ruma for Boga Lake, Keokaradong, Tahjingdong. In rainy season you can go upto koikhhong jhiri by jeep. From that place you have to undertake one hour boat journey to Ruma. In winter season you can go up to Ruma Bridge Ghat and from the place you need 15 to 20 minutes boat journey to arrive in Ruma. From Ruma sadar you can hire pickup or jeep up to Boga Lake and you have to walk through the hills from Boga Lake to Tahjingdong.
9. Golden Temple
It is situated at the outskirts of Bandarban city near Pulpara, Balaghata. It is just 4 kilometer away from Bandarban city. Its pagoda built on the top of the hills. It is regarded as one of the holy site for Buddhist pilgrims. Followers of Buddhism from different countries gather here to prey and visit. It’s another name “Mohashukh Prarthona Purak Buddha Dhatu Chate”. It has one of the greatest Buddha sculpture made during the contemporary period of Gautam Buddha. This monastery has been built at a cost of 100 million taka. It is one of the magnificent monasteries in the south East Asia. There is small pond in the monastery named “The Pond of Angels” on the top of a hill. From this you can have a total glance of Blaghata and its surrounding natural beauties. Every year a huge festival is arranged here. It is always open for the devotees and remains open from 5 PM to 7PM for the visitors. Each visitor is charge 10 taka for entrance.
Food and Accommodation :- As it is close to Bandarban city, you can take only snacks and drinking water.
Communication :- You can hire a rickshaw or auto rickshaw from Bandarban city.
10. Nilgiri
Nilgiri is the highest tourist spot of Bangladesh. It is about 3500ft high and situated in Thanci upzilla. It is just 45km away from Bandarban sadar. Beside this spot you can see Mro villages. Their colorful culture and living style are surely an unexplored experience to you. In rainy season here creates a spectacular scenery, the whole spot is covered with the blanket of clouds. You can enjoy a cloudy experience. That is really awesome. Winter is waiting for you with it’s foggy gesture on the height. It is a nice place for campfire in this season. This foggy experience will remain crystal clear in your memory for decades. Sunrise and sunset are like an immense archive of glaring beauties in the summer. The sun is rising behind from the bottom of the hills illuminating the green hills and it is setting leaving behind a crepuscular dream for you. Its twilight with the breeze will ignite your Romanticism. You can also enjoy the serpentine course of Sangu River. This is the most spectacular tourist spot in Bandarban and managed by Army brigade of Bandarban.
Food and accommodation :- There is an well managed restaurant in this place. Yon can avail delicious cuisines and snacks here. There are some cozy deluxe suits and cottage to stay. If you want to stay there, you have to confirm the reservation with the authority at first.
Communication :- Nilgiri is 45km away from Bandarban sadar. Tourists can go there by Thanci bound bus or jeep. But better option is to hire a private vehicle. On the way to Nilgiri you have to register your name and address with the military check post.