Cholon Beel is the largest Beel from Bangladesh which is shared between four districts from Bangladesh. Natore sirajganj and Pabna are sharing the major portions, and Rajshahi is sharing very tiny amount. Here life and living is tied with boat and water. To get relief from monotonous daily life, agony of family and to make change for refreshment, you can avail the scope to make a trip at Cholon Beel areas where you can discover a different lifestyle and extract the special feeling.
One who is familiar with living in the rocky or mountain lands, has a scope to share reverse experience with biggest landscape view. Such a biggest landscape is unique one all over Bangladesh where people live surrounded by water all the year round.
Fishing and farming are the main business of peoples here. Hundreds of families, mostly fishermen, in Cholon beel areas however, live on the non-motorised/manual boat all the year round. If you can able to earn several day holiday from busy life, can add a taste of different touch of experience by making a touring in the villages of Cholon beel. You can be experienced how simply people can lead their life and live with happy.
You also can find a real life nature, where none will dare to disturb you when you fully engaged with fishing in the deep beel! Hospitality of the local people also unthinkable that makes you happy and it will take time to forget it from your mind. Cholon beel is surrounded by three districts where you can go both by bus and train from capital Dhaka. Getting on a Natore or Sirajgonj -bound coach you have to get down at Bonpara areas beside Sirajganj-Dhaka highway. If you like to travel by train from Dhaka, you have to avail a Rajshahi bound trains (Padma-Silkcity or Dhumketu inter city trains) and you have to stop traveling at Sirajganj. A good number of residential hotels are abundant in Sirajgonj and Natore. Beside highway the hotels and motels with family accommodations are located. If you travel in Rainey season, you will notice only water and water through your two eyes and during summer you will find the flood of paddy or other seasonal crops. You can hardly visualize a small village covered by some trees. After getting down from train or bus you have to hire both manual-driven and engine boat for a day or several days with a small payment and then you will enjoy the nature. In the day time, you can see, people are busy with fishing or reaping paddy and other seasonal crops. The prime adventure is to spend several nights on boat on the silent water of the beel. If you know to swim, it’s another comfort to you. By the help of boatmen, you can become a fisherman by carrying fishing wheels and scope of catch fish from the beel.
Most of the year, the lands are inundated by water and people only get one crop in a year. They have no alternatives to maintain their livelihoods without fishing. Traveling by boat is the only means of transportation for communication.
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