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Dhaka Division

Includes  Why Go? ...... 57 Enveloping the city of , and including some desti- Dhamrai...... 58 nations that make great day trips from the capital, Dhaka . . . . . 59 division stretches for more than 250km from south to north, reaching right up to the border with the Garo Hills in . Around Mymensingh. .61 It’s a rural wonderland, comprising some 25,000 villages, and much of the region is given over to radiant 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 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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