Open water
To the horizon.
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Tanguar Haor is a vast wetland in northeastern Bangladesh. Calm water stretches to the horizon, trees stand in the middle of the water, small wooden boats drift across it, and the blue Meghalaya hills rise to the north beyond. The area, with its 46 villages, covers about 100 km², of which some 2,802 ha is wetland, and more than 40,000 people live from it. The government declared it an Ecologically Critical Area in 1999. Each winter about 200 kinds of migratory birds arrive, and it holds more than 140 species of freshwater fish, with trees such as hijal growing in the water. You travel the water by boat or stay aboard one of the houseboats that cruise it, watching the birds, villages and flooded trees, with the hills on the horizon. The wetland is about 32 km in a straight line northwest of the town of Sunamganj and 82 km west of Sylhet. The water is widest in the monsoon, and the birds most numerous in winter. The UK warns of flooding in the Sylhet region, so check the weather before going.
To the horizon.
In the water.
To stay aboard.
Dharmapasha and Tahirpur, Sunamganj District
In winter.
Yes, houseboats cruise the wetland.