Shopnopuri

Shopnopuri is one of the most beautiful artificial tourist spot in North Bengal. You can go there either from Hili or from Dinajpur. There you can enjoy your full day watching this artificial beauty.

You can spend night also In Shopnopuri rest house but for that you will have to book in advance. It is an idle Picnic spot also where lots of picnic parties come every year.It is also an attractive scenery in Bangladesh.

Paharpur Buddhist Monastery

Paharpur Buddhist Monastery is another scenery and tourist attraction of North Bengal. Paharpur is a small village 5 km. west of Jamalganj in the greater Rajshahi district. You can go to Paharpur from Jaipur district. It’s only 10 km from Jaipur.

King Dharma Pal established Paharpur Buddhist Monastery in 7th century, which is the most important and the largest known monastery south of the Himalayas, has been excavated. The main Mandir is in the center of this Monastery. This 7th century archaeological find covers approximately an area of 27 acres of land.

The entire establishment, occupying a quadrangular court, measuring more than 900 ft. externally on each side, has high enclosure- walls about 16 ft. in thickness and from 12 ft. to 15 ft. height. With elaborate gateway complex on the north, there are 45 cells on the north and 44 in each of the other three sides with a total number of 177 rooms. The architecture of the pyramidal cruciform temple is profoundly influenced by those of South-East Asia, especially Myanmar and Java. A small site-Museum built in 1956-57 houses the representative collection of objects recovered from the area, where you can see the statues of Buddha and Vishnu. The excavated findings have also been preserved at the Varendra Research Museum at Rajshahi. The antiquities of the museum include terracotta plaques, images of different gods and goddesses, potteries, coins, inscriptions, ornamental bricks and other minor clay objects.

It is totally good scenery in Rajshahi in Bangladesh. The whole place is really attractive from inside to outside interior. Every one can pass his/her free time.

Tajhat Rajbari

Tajhat is a historical place of Bangladesh, just south of the city Rangpur. It has a nice Jamidarbari (Palace) which in 2005 it was largely restored and turned into a museum. This museum is about 10 mins drive from Rangpur town, near Lalbagh. The Museum was inaugurated on March 20, 2005, by the Government of Bangladesh Minister for Cultural Affairs, Begum Selima Rahman and Secretary Mr. Mahmudul Masud. Dr. Alain Labrique of the Johns Hopkins University also made some invited remarks.

The place in Tajhat, commonly known as Tajhat Rajbari was built by Maharaja Kumar Gopal Lal Roy in the beginning of the 20th century. He was a descendent of a Hindu khatari who emigrated from Punjab. He was a jeweler by profession. It is believed that from the conspicuous appearance of his Taj or jeweled crown his estate derived the name of Tajhat. From the name of his estate, the area is known as Tajhat.

The place, with about 76 meters frontage, raises two stores and faces east. The board staircase in the center, paved with imported white marble. The place is crowned by a ribbed conical dome in the center of the roof with a tall octagonal neck. It was originally embellished with various sculptures of classical Roman figures in Italian marble. Ground-floor level there is a very large hall, measuring more than 18-13 meters. There are 22 apartments on two floors. In 1995 the place was declared as a protected monument by the Department of Archaeology.

If we measure it in Scenery wise it was too nice. Tajhat Rajbari is one of the most attractive scenery in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD)

Establishment and Location

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) , Comilla is located at Kotbari, a rural area along the Mainamati-Lalmai (one of the archeological sites of Bangladesh) hill range in Comilla district at a distance of about 100 kilometers from the capital city of Dhaka. The sprawling campus covers an area of 156 acres of land including undulating hilly terrain and valleys. A large part of the campus is orchards, vegetable farms, nurseries, parks and roads lined with shady tropical trees. The office and the residential buildings have been designed and located in harmony with the topography and surrounding landscape. The well-planned layout of the institution and green landscape give the campus a serene and idyllic beauty.

The Profile

The Academy was established in 1959 basically as a training institute to train government officials and representatives of the local government and village organizations in various subjects relating to rural development. It is an autonomous institution governed by a Board of Governors of which the Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives is the Chairperson. Administratively, it is attached to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives. The Board of Governors formulates policies and the Director General of BARD as the Chief Executive implements the policies and conducts the day-to-day affairs within the framework of the ordinance and Service Rules of the Academy. The activities of the Academy carry out by its Faculty working in 9 Divisions each of which is headed by a Director. The Divisions are divided into two broad categories: Service Divisions and Academic Divisions. The Service Divisions include Training; Research; Project; and Administration. The Academic Divisions are Rural Administration and Local Government; Rural Economics and Management; Rural Education and Social Development; Rural Sociology and Demography; and Agriculture and Environment. The strength of the faculty is 60 including the Director General, Additional Director General, 9 Directors, 14 Joint Directors, 13 Deputy Directors and 22 Assistant Directors. 305 supporting officials and staff assist them.

Famous and Award

The Academy is famous for its evolved model “Comilla Approach to Rural Development” in home and abroad; and received National Award in 1986 for its remarkable contribution in Rural Development.

Ultimately BARD is a most beautiful place in Comilla. Its scenery is attractive. For anyone can attach from this attractive scenery. Its really a nice place for enjoyment.

Kantaji Temple

Kantaji Temple is a late medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. It is built by Maharaja Pran Nath; its construction started in 1722 C.E. and ended in 1752 C.E. during the reign of his son Maharaja Ramnath. It boasts one of the greatest examples on Terracotta architecture in Bangladesh and once had nine spires, but all were destroyed in an earthquake that took place in 1897.

The temple was built in a nava-ratna (nine-spired) style before the destruction caused by the earthquake of 1897.

The 52 feet square temple is centered in an oblong court (240'120) covered by a shed with a roof of corrugated tin. Its main fabric pivots around a nuclear square cell (10'-3), reaching a height of about 50' above its 3'-3 high slab of stone, thought to have been mined from the ancient ruins of Bannagar near Gangarampur in Dinajpur. Three more square outer shells in graded heights have been added to it, to variegate the plan as well as to strengthen the central sanctuary on top of the massive tower.

The curved cornice from the ground floor, which sharply drops at the corners, rises in the middle to a height of 25 feet from the plinth, while the first floor cornice rises to 15 and the second floor to 6 feet. Small square cells are situated at the four corners of the ground and first floors. They serve the purpose of supporting the weight of the octagonal corner towers above. The temple contains four rectangular alleys on the ground floor circling the prayer hall. On the ground floor, three multi-cusped arched entrances on each side are present, which are separated by two ornate brick pillars. The number of arched doorways in the ground floor in its four shells is 21; on the first floor it is 27. The second floor, reduced in size, has only three entrance doors and three windows. A narrow staircase, only 2-3 feet wide, is built into the western second corridor. It winds up through the dark passage to the first two stories.

It’s one of the best scenery and also a tourist spot in Bangladesh. Every year maximum percentage of people visits there. When anyone visit there they get the full enjoy and pleasure from environment of Kantaji Temple.