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Required travel documents for Bangladesh

Required travel documents for Bangladesh: passport [...]

Electric power

Electric power: 220V / 50 Hz [...]

Area code to Bangladesh

Area code to Bangladesh: +880 [...]

Pahela Baishakh

The beginning of Bengali New Year is happily observed all over the country. The Day (mid-April) is a bank holiday. Most multi-coloured daylong meetings, parades along with a rich cultural program and customary Panta at Ramna Park, is a particular element [...]

Transportation:

Air: Bangladesh can be reached by air from any part of the world. Biman, Bangladesh airlines connects Dhaka with 27 major cities of the world.

Rail: The Bangladesh Railway provides an efficient service to places of interest such as Chittagong, Sylh [...]

Climate

Bangladesh is hot and humid in summer and cool in winter. During the monsoon, it rains heavily-average rainfall being 136.42". The climate is characterised by moderately high temperature for about eight months in the year, maximum temperature in summer r [...]

Bangladesh - language

Bangla is the state language but English is widely spoken and understood. The percentage of literacy is about 22.2%. [...]

Bangladesh - climate

Bangladesh - Getting Around

Internal transport in Bangladesh is cheap. Biman, the national carrier, has flights radiating from Dhaka to 10 Bangladeshi cities, including Chittagong and Cox's Bazar. Flights are cheap but are still more than three times first class train fares.

Bangladesh - Money & Costs
Bangladesh is a very cheap country to travel if you're prepared to travel on a budget, but the quality of budget food, accommodation and travel is low. It's possible to average US$4 a day if you go 2nd class on trains, travel on local buses, stay in the c [...]