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Dhaka Division
Includes Why Go? Sonargaon...... 57 Enveloping the city of Dhaka, and including some desti- Dhamrai...... 58 nations that make great day trips from the capital, Dhaka Mymensingh. . . . . 59 division stretches for more than 250km from south to north, reaching right up to the border with the Garo Hills in India. Around Mymensingh. .61 It’s a rural wonderland, comprising some 25,000 villages, and much of the region is given over to radiant rice paddies, filling your vision with more hues of green than you ever knew existed. A smattering of wonderfully romantic, slowly Best Places for decaying ruins also lends a historic air to the region, but it’s History the land in the far north of Dhaka division that has perhaps the greatest pull. Here, the green carpet of paddy fields gives ¨¨Sonargaon (p57) way to dappled forests, great rivers and hilly panoramas, ¨¨Mymensingh (p59) and the indigenous culture of the Garo people awaits the more adventurous traveller.
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