What a great weekend!
It started on thursday night with Fina & I having some lovely people over for dinner. Great food (by master chef Fina) and great people!
After coming back to the cottage we had breakfast and then went to the tea plantations to learn more about the process of tea-making. We had a chat with some of pickers and then went to have a look at the factory.
We then went to Srimongal to have some of the very famous seven layer tea! Competing tea stalls have not yet managed to copy the drink and we were all amazed by the distinct different flavors between the different layers- Cinnamon, ginger, cardamon, lemon, honey, black tea and green tea.
After this one of a kind cup of tea, it was time for us to head back to Dhaka and I think we all wished we were able to stay longer!
Thank you Hasan, Riyadh, Vanessa & Jemma for a great weekend!! :)
It started on thursday night with Fina & I having some lovely people over for dinner. Great food (by master chef Fina) and great people!
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| Win, Fina, Frida, Eva, Vanessa, Jemma & Hasan. |
On friday I got up at 4.30am to get ready for the Srimongal Road Trip with Hasan, Riyadh, Jemma & Vanessa! We left Dhaka around 6 am and headed north for some weekend adventures.
The road between Dhaka- Srimongal was in surprisingly good shape and the 5 hr drive there went quick. We arrived to our home for the night at the Amtali Tea Estate and fell in love with it straight away- a nice little cottage in the middle of one of the many lush green tea gardens along the way. It was surrounded by a beautiful garden filled with plants and flowers and just around the corner was a magical rubber tree forrest and grazing deers.
We unpacked and then got in the car again to explore the Lawachara National Park, just outside of Srimongal town. The serene rainforest was beautiful and felt very far away from the busy streets of Dhaka. Our biggest hope coming there was seeing one of the endangered Gibbon monkeys that inhibit the forrest, so imagine our excitement when our guide suddenly pointed to some trees and a whole family of them! So amazing!
After our hike through the park we had some delicious lunch in Srimongal before going back to the cottage where we spent the evening talking, drinking tea and later sharing a nice dinner.
On saturday we once again got up bright and early to go to the Baikka Beel Bird Reserve. It was a bit of an adventure getting there through the bangladeshi countryside with a very narrow and bumpy road filled with cows and buffalos. We ( = Riyadh!) had to get out of the car pretty much every 500m to wake some sleepy cows up and try to convince them to move!
When we eventually arrived a friendly local man helped us to find the different species of birds hiding in the swamp.
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| On the road! :) |
The road between Dhaka- Srimongal was in surprisingly good shape and the 5 hr drive there went quick. We arrived to our home for the night at the Amtali Tea Estate and fell in love with it straight away- a nice little cottage in the middle of one of the many lush green tea gardens along the way. It was surrounded by a beautiful garden filled with plants and flowers and just around the corner was a magical rubber tree forrest and grazing deers.
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| The cottage at Amtali Tea Estate. |
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| Our neighbors.. |
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| A Gibbon!! |
After our hike through the park we had some delicious lunch in Srimongal before going back to the cottage where we spent the evening talking, drinking tea and later sharing a nice dinner.
On saturday we once again got up bright and early to go to the Baikka Beel Bird Reserve. It was a bit of an adventure getting there through the bangladeshi countryside with a very narrow and bumpy road filled with cows and buffalos. We ( = Riyadh!) had to get out of the car pretty much every 500m to wake some sleepy cows up and try to convince them to move!
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| Our morning drive to Baikka Beel |
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| Slight bumps in the road. |
When we eventually arrived a friendly local man helped us to find the different species of birds hiding in the swamp.
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| The bird master himself! |
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| Pretty white birds. |
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| Kids at a mosque along the way. |
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| Kids & puppies! <3 |
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| The shining green Tea gardens |
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| One of the tea pickers getting ready to go for lunch. |
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| The seven layer tea of Nilkantha Tea Cabin! |
After this one of a kind cup of tea, it was time for us to head back to Dhaka and I think we all wished we were able to stay longer!
Thank you Hasan, Riyadh, Vanessa & Jemma for a great weekend!! :)
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