Village and community

Munshiganj and Nildumur

Satkhira

The river villages of Shyamnagar where the road ends and the Sundarbans begins across the water: the starting point for every boat into the western forest.

Kotalipara

Gopalganj

A low-lying upazila of beels and canals in the south of the district, where farmers grow vegetables on floating beds in the wet season.

Babukhali Horse Race and Fair

Magura

A horse race held at Babukhali in Mohammadpur on 16 Magh since about 1898, with a three-day fair of jari and sari songs around it.

Latkan gardens of Belabo and Shibpur

Narsingdi

The orchards where most of the country's latkan grows: in season the trunks and branches are covered in golden clusters, and buyers come from Dhaka to the village markets.

Shah Abdul Karim's home, Ujandhol

Sunamganj

The village home and grave of the baul Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009) at Ujandhol in Derai, on the bank of the Kalni river in the deep haor.

Birishiri

Netrokona

The village across the Someshwari from Durgapur bazar that gives the whole area its name among travellers: Garo and Hajong homes, mission schools from the British years, the cultural academy, and the base for the river, the white clay hills and Ranikhong.

Rowmari

Kurigram

The upazila across the Brahmaputra on the Assam and Meghalaya border, reached by boat from Chilmari: river crossings, chars, green fields and the hills of India on the horizon.