Cox's Bazar Sea Beach, located at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the longest natural sea beach in the world running 120 kilometres (75 mi) and 5th longest beach after Praia do Cassino of Brazil, Padre Island on the US Gulf Coast, Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia, and Ninety Mile Beach of Australia. It is the top tourist destination of Bangladesh. wikipedia
I know many of you have been surprised by hearing those lines and it is quite unknown to the worlds tourists community! And the another fact is that it is one of least expensive tourists spot with such a beauty from every aspects such as the Hotels, Foods, Transportations. Another attraction of this place is that it is situated very near to the only one Coral Island of Bangladesh called Saint Martin Coral Island. Also, the southeastern part of Bangladesh has many beautiful scenic area in Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati districts. All of these districts are so beautiful with green mountains, waterfalls, lakes and many ethnic cultural diversities. Though my visit was belong to the Cox's Bazar this time, I will describe about the most attractive one. May be in future I will share my experience with the other areas in coming future.
Let's begin with the starting of the journey from Dhaka as I was living Dhaka at that time. If you want to visit here from anywhere in the world, I think the journey will start from Dhaka also unless you fly to Chittagong or fly to Cox's Bazar Airport from Dhaka or Chittagong. My journey started from Dhaka by bus. We were 4 friends as always, without friends no journey is a journey of enjoyment. Our bus left at 8:30 pm from Kalabagan bus stoppage inside the downtown. Also, buses for Cox's Bazar is available from any area of the city as all of these will collect their passengers from the city to gather in the leaving route of the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. Our bus was sleeping chair coach with the air conditioning system, it should be noted that, as being a developing country, we have so many non-AC bus for such type of long journey. Also, there are many sleeping coaches which are very expensive and often equal to the domestic air tickets. So you can chose according to your comfort and budget. By the way, Bangladesh is always a budget friendly tourist spot in southern Asia with so many beautiful places around the small country.
We have got 2 break in our bus journey as the journey was quite long. We have taken some snacks and foods in these breaks and make fresh ourselves. Roughly in the morning we reached at the Kalatoli point, the last stoppage of the bus from where the sea is a 2 minutes walking distance. Our plan was to stay for 2 nights there but suddenly we got a news from the travel agencies that from day after, there will be a Hartal a kind of political issues when the long route-buses are called to stop their services, so we had to change our plan and finish visiting all the places as much as possible.
After, reaching their we have taken our breakfast from restaurant with fried fish and some bread which we call Paratha. And walk to the beach to enjoy the first look at it and enjoy the first sunshine on the beach! We hire the beach decks and and enjoyed the blue horizon infront of us for 2 hours. Though the sea was not looking blue at all due to the sun. Then we leave this kalatoli Sea beach to another sea beach called Laboni Seabeach which is quite far from that one. It takes almost 1.5 hours to go their by arranging some local transport. We reached at the Laboni seabeach around 12 pm and enjoy the view and luckily the weather was crowdy. So we spend 1 hour on the beach and walk on the water where thousands of stones on the beach which make the beach beautiful but not perfect for swimming as you may harm by those stones.
After that we made ourselves fresh in restaurant and took our launch there. You can find so many restaurants there from the cheaper ones to the very expensive ones. We had our launch with tons of sea foods and various kinds of sea fishes. Really the launch was so delicious! After launch, it was a perfect time for sleep but our plan was to cover all the places and go for swimming in the Kalatali Seabeach before returning.
So, we hire a transport to move to the another beautiful place called the Himchori which was a smaller waterfall which is dying day by day due to the global ecological imbalance. Also, there was the facilities to climb to the mountain and has the rare opportunities to observe the sea from the mountains which is awesome.
Another thing I forget to mention, the route we use to move from Kalatoli to Laboni Seabeach is our Bangladesh's longest Marine drive which is a spectacular road having the sea in one side and the tracts of mountains on the other side! It is like the dreaming way to drive and enjoy the beauties on both sides of the road. And the Himchori is situated on the middle of these two famous Sea beach. So, we have planned accordingly to cover all the beauties that our eyes can enjoy there!
Really, the view of the greenish mountains in one side and the cloudy and unclear sea beach mixing with the mountains in the horizon is so eye soothing beauty. It can't be expressed in words! You should stand their to feel the beauty with the air coming from the sea!
After spending 3 hours there, we started out returning journey to the Kalatali Sea beach for swimming. But one of my friend told me to visit a nearby island called Maheshkhali which is in the sea. So, we took the decision too quick and hire a speedboat to go quickly on that island. And we have visited some Pagodas, a kind of temple for Buddhists people. And also visit the scenic bridge on the mangrove forests at the costal side of that island. After that we go back to the Kaltali Seabeach after 4 hours.
It is almost evening then, we planned to swim in the sea now but unluckily the weather was becoming worse that time and the tourists police had already told the visitors not to go down to the sea that time as that can be life-taking. And due to the night time, the rescue activities will not be provided properly. But we did some running in the water at the lower water zone and the police come to us and request us not to do for a long time. So after one hour we return to the rental bathroom area and take shower there. As, we are not going to stay there, we didn't booked the hotel this time as it would be wastage of money. After taking shower, we went to a good restaurant for our dinner. We ate some Bar-B-Q and so many fishes for the dinner. After the dinner, we went to the beach again for the last time fort that visit before getting on bus to return to Dhaka. We spent around 2 hours there as the weather was so soothing, strong wind and the sounds of waves was amazing. And some lights on some boats were dancing on the tides. We had cut the ticket of night 11:15 departure time after we have enjoyed the full day in full speed. The next morning we came back to Dhaka. The view is still appearing infront of me. Really, it was a lifetime gathering of feelings and soothing eyes with the beauty of the earth.
Thank you so much for stopping by, hope you have enjoyed my travel blog and I will catch you at the next.
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