Tuesday 17 January 2012

KEOKRADONG THE HIGHEST PEAK

The most charming adventure tour in Bangladesh is to explore Keokradang, the highest peak of the country. You start your journey to Ruma ghat (terminal) from Bandarban on a 'Chander Gari,' a jalopy made of an age-old jeep.  The clouds will fly beneath you. It will seem that you are flying over the clouds like a free bird. Sometimes the clouds will so close that you fill that you could reach out and touch them.
Ruma Ghat is only 54km from the town, but the journey took about three and a half hours. Here you have to cross the Shankha river on a one and a half hours' trip to Ruma Bazaar.You will find three or four rest houses at Ruma Bazaar 
The feeling at Ruma Bazaar is that you are being enclosed by four walls on all sides the walls are hills as we were at the bosom of a valley.  The silence of the place and the hills around you might have induced the lonely feeling.
  you start your journey  for Boga Lake. The way to Baga Lake is no pleasure trip, for a normal tourist, it might be even impossible to walk for five hours without rest. You have to walk along the hilly river Rumanaksang and cross it several times.
Just after Ruma Bazaar and before Boga Lake, there are two steep hills and path strewn with stones.you have to cross the shallow river 52 times more. You have to cross a stream to go up a small hill, the stony way of the stream is too narrow to walk side by side. On the way, you will  met many indigenous people who walked along the way without any ease. At last, you will reach to Boga Lake. You will find two rest houses and an army camp. The villagers of Boga Lake cordially accep tourists and entertain them in exchange for a little money. The people here are mainly Marma, Murang and Bome. They are very friendly with the Bangalis. These areas are deprived of many facilities, from Ruma Bazaar to Boga Lake, we found only one primary school established with the help of some tourists.
You can set out for Darjiling Para. It is a two-hour walk from Boga Lake. The path is better than the one you covered the previous day. Darjiling Para is the second most elevated habitation of Bangladesh; Shaikat Para is the first. There are few small shops at Darjiling Para.Now you are close to Keokradang. After that, only half an hour's walk take you to the peak.
Howdo you feel? It is impossible to describe the ecstasy of watching the beauty around you.

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