Market and bazaar, Jhalokati
Bhimruli Floating Guava Marketভীমরুলী ভাসমান পেয়ারা বাজার
- Time needed
- Two to three hours with the boat.
- best months
- Jul–Sep
- Cost
- Boat hire, shared by the group.
A market held on the water where canals meet at Bhimruli: in the guava season growers paddle in with boats full of fruit and sell to traders boat to boat.
Plan your visit
- Best time
- August, in the morning.
At a glance
- Season
- July–September
- Getting round
- By boat
About
The land around Bhimruli is a maze of guava orchards cut by narrow canals, and the canals are how the fruit moves. In season the market gathers each morning: dozens of small boats, green with guava, packed together where the waterways meet.
Hire a boat to drift through the market and then into the orchard canals. Other fruit and vegetables are sold too, but guava is the reason to come. The market runs through the season; outside it the canals are quiet.
Getting there: About 12 km from Jhalokati town by auto, then a boat on the canal.
Things to do
- Drift through the market, then into the orchard canals.
- Buy guava straight from a grower's boat.
Good to know
- Arrive early; trading thins out by midday.
