Sylhet District - Tourism

Tourism

Sylhet division has enormous tourism potential. There is a green carpet of tea plants on small hillocks. Natural reserved forests are great attractions. Migratory birds in winter, particularly in the haor areas, are also very attractive in this area.The major tourist destinations surrounding the city are Jaflong, Sripur, Habiganj, Madhabkunda waterfall, Golapganj Botanical Gardens.

• Tamabil-Jaflong: Situated amidst splendid panorama, Tamabil is a border outpost on Sylhet-Shilong Road about 55 km. away from Sylhet town. Besides enchanting views of the area one can also have a glimpse of the waterfalls across the border from Tamabil. Jaflong is also a scenic spot nearby amidst tea gardens and rate beauty of rolling stones from hills. The natural view has been effected by rock quarrying. It is located on the Bangladesh-India border.

• Kalibari @ Jaflog: Kalibari temple which is one of the 51 Sakthi peet is situated near Jaflong.

• Greeva Peet - Mahalakshmi peet: South of Sylhet around 4 km from the city is place named Joinpur(Dakshin Surma - Surma is the river that flows through Sylhet). Sri Mahalakshmi temple is situated at this place. As every shakthi peet has its bhairav temple and for this peet Bhairav temple is situated 1 km away from this sakthi peet.

• Sri Mangal: Sri Mangal is famous for the largest tea gardens of the world covered by lush green carpet. One can have a look into the spectacular tea processing at Tea Research Institute. Bangladesh produces and exports a large quantity of high quality tea every year. Most of the tea estates are in Sri Mangal. It is called "The land of two leaves and a bud". It is also called camellia, green carpet or Tea Mountain. There are a lot of tea estates including the largest one in the world. The terraced tea garden, pineapple, rubber and lemon plantations from a beautiful landscape. It is known as the tea capital in Bangladesh. Just offer entering into the tea estates the nice smells and green beauty will lead you many kilometres away.

• Lawacherra Rain Forest: Lawacherra Rain Forest is one of the important & well-preserved forests in Bangladesh. Here visitor may see gibbons swinging through the trees and birds like bee-eater owls parrot. It is a good habitat for Deer, leopard, wild chicken, squirrel, and python. Don't miss it especially if you are bird watcher. The terrain is hilly and vegetation is fairly thick. Only one rare Chloroform tree of Asia is here and a prime attraction of travel

• Madhabkunda: Madhabkunda surrounded by lush tea estates and full of waters lilies is a unique one. Magurchara ruined gas & Oil reserved field, which was inadvertently blown up while digging 3 years ago and was burning at 500-feet high for more than 3 months. A lot of burnt trees now show signs of this disaster. Everywhere rubber and lemon plantations form beautiful landscapes and visitors can see the Madhobkundo waterfall.

• Tilagor: It is a place with small and large hills. There are poultry and dairy farms and houses on cut hills. There is also a Tea garden in Tilagor which is named as Lakkhachora Tea Garden. There is also an Eco Park in Tilagor which is known as Tilagor Eco Park Which is the beauty of nature. Many people can come here and can pass their vacation.".