The green cliff
Rock draped in plants.
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Madhabkunda is one of the best-known waterfalls in Bangladesh, dropping about 49 metres (162 feet) through green forest in Moulvibazar district. It lies inside an eco-park, about 46 km in a straight line from central Sylhet. The water comes off the Patharia Hills along the Gangamara stream and flows on towards the Hakaluki Haor wetland. Local Hindu tradition tells that Raja Govardhan, the last Hindu king of Sylhet, met a meditating monk named Madhaveshwar while hunting in 1335, and the place is said to take its name from him. The main stream flows all year. In the monsoon a second stream forms beside it and joins it as the rains build, turning the fall into a powerful torrent. The water drops from a cliff draped in plants into a wide pool below, and boulders are scattered along the stream beyond it. The pool is deep and the rocks are slippery, so do not swim or climb the cliff. The fall is fullest after the monsoon, from September to November. It is about 62 km in a straight line from the Lawachara forest.
Rock draped in plants.
A wide basin under the fall.
Rocks along the water below.
Madhabkunda Eco Park, Barlekha, Moulvibazar, Bangladesh
It is not advised, as the pool is deep and the rocks slippery.
September to November, when the water is full and roads drier.