Zahirul Islam Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.01 of 5

Park, eco park and picnic spot, Rangamati

Polwel Parkপলওয়েল পার্ক

Time needed
An hour.
best months
Oct–Mar
Cost
Entry about ৳30.

The police welfare park on the lake shore in the town: a lakeside walk, a small hanging bridge, cottages, boats and "Love Point", the town's own evening spot.

Plan your visit

Opening
Daily, morning to evening.

At a glance

Run by
District police

About

Polwel is the easy outing when there is no time for a boat day: paths along the water, a bridge to a small island, a memorial, benches, a cafe and boats for hire, with the lake and hills in front. Families come in the afternoon and it fills on Fridays.

Getting there: In the town, a short CNG from Reserve Bazar.

Things to do

  • Sunset from the lakeside path.

Good to know

  • Crowded on Fridays.

Getting there

Read the Rangamati guide

Nearby

Monument and memorialShakhawat Hossen Shafat · CC BY-SA 4.0

Hanging Bridge

2 km, Rangamati

The 335-foot suspension footbridge between two lake islands at the Parjatan complex, built in 1984: the picture of Rangamati on every postcard, and the first stop of every boat.

Food spotSabrina Naz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Peda Ting Ting

3 km, Rangamati

The island restaurant on Kaptai Lake that made hill food a destination: Chakma dishes with bamboo shoot, nappi and lake fish, cottages among the trees, reached by boat on the way to Shuvolong.

Buddhist vihara and pagodaSouvik.arko · Public domain

Rajban Vihara

4 km, Rangamati

The largest Buddhist monastery in the country, on a lake island at the edge of town, home of the late Banabhante, the forest monk whose preserved body lies here: a complex of halls, stupas and shrines under the Chakma raja's patronage.

Forest and mangroveSiraj Akram Kayes · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kaptai National Park

15 km, Rangamati

About 5,500 hectares of old mixed evergreen forest on the hills above the Karnaphuli at Kaptai, a national park since 1999: elephants, gibbons, hornbills, teak planted by the British in 1873, and trails from the Kaptai road.

River, lake and haorMohammad Rafi Saad · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kaptai Lake

16 km, Rangamati

The largest man-made lake in the country, about 700 km² of water behind the Kaptai dam on the Karnaphuli, filled in 1962: the whole district is organised around it, and a day in a boat on it is the Rangamati trip.

Monument and memorialMoheen Reeyad · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kaptai Dam

16 km, Rangamati

The earth dam across the Karnaphuli, completed in 1962, that made the lake and runs the country's only hydroelectric station: a 670-metre embankment with a spillway of 16 gates, seen from the lake side or the navy road.

Location

Polwel Park, Rangamati
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