Bangladesh OVERVIEW
Flat as a pancake and dissected by wide flooding rivers, Bangladesh is not a love at first sight and a tourist haunt like the vibrant India or the spiritual Nepal. It requires travelers of a questing mind who look beyond the obvious. And with a bit of patience and observation powers they discover what is really hidden under the first impression of a poverty-stricken and calamity-prone country. Bangladesh turns disinterest into delight with its lush paddy fields and cascading tea gardens of Srimangal, serpentine miles of rivers and crystal clear lakes, world's largest mangrove forests of Sundarbans and the longest natural sea beaches at Cox's Bazar. Take a deeper plunge and you'll find relics of long-forgotten ancient Buddhist civilizations in Mainamati or Paharpur, the Golden Village of Sonargaon and Benegal tiger-filled natural reserves. And on the top of all that, there will be the people - with the most open of hearts, intrepidity and love for their land.
The reasons why you hardly ever find holiday brochures with ‘Enjoy your Bangladesh Experience' are a few and they tend to be highlighted more than the country's actual charms. The traditional emphasis is put on the material facilities offered by the land, such as cheap labor and conversion rate, which attract investment and business incentive. Among the tourist repellents one finds the frequent monsoon flooding devastating vast expenses, the echoing 2007 Cyclone Sidr smashing the country into obscurity as well as serious overpopulation problems and widespread poverty. The country is widely recognized as the most vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards resulting from high rainfall, rising sea levels and tropical cyclones. The unfavorable natural conditions seriously affect agriculture, human shelter and also water and food security predicting approximately 25 million of climate refugees in decades to come.
The land and its people is charged with perseverance and strong will, though. Determined to make the best out of the adverse environment, the Bangladeshi have been on a 'build with nature' project since the 1960s which implements cross dams to create new land. With numerous other operations of road and embankment building, health and literacy improvement programs and promising outlooks for investment and growth, Bangladesh sees to its brighter future.
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