Travel

Love winter weather? Visit these Bangladesh destinations

11 January 2026, 15:17 PM

Chattogram airport terminal driveway closed to non-passengers

6 January 2026, 12:28 PM Travel

New ordinance could shut down 5,000 agencies: Travel sector leaders

4 January 2026, 19:43 PM Travel

Biman suspending Dhaka-Manchester flights from Feb 1

4 January 2026, 12:44 PM Travel

5 honeymoon destinations that beat Cox’s Bazar

18 December 2025, 11:05 AM Travel

Why you should explore Bangladesh in your 20s

15 December 2025, 13:07 PM Travel

US widens travel ban to more than 30 countries

5 December 2025, 16:41 PM Travel

Planning a trip to St Martin’s Island? Here’s how to get the travel pass

2 December 2025, 06:47 AM Bangladesh

Saint Martin’s Island: Tourist season with overnight stays begins tomorrow

30 November 2025, 14:12 PM Travel

Sea breeze, moon-boats and silent shores — Teknaf in November

27 November 2025, 11:59 AM Travel

Incredible Beijing!

We reached Beijing from Taipei late at night, after a 2-hour flight. It took an hour to drive from the airport to downtown Beijing, where the hotel was.

18 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Sublime beauty of the Scottish Highlands

Conventional wisdom has it that the Scottish Highlands tour is a must for the travellers' bucket list because it is as beautiful as one can imagine. The highlands, with an average elevation of 20 metres above sea level, have an eye-catching beauty to behold.

18 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The manly man's survival guide to Chatuchak Market, Thailand

What is it? One of the biggest marketplaces in Thailand for bargains on anything from clothes, food, pets to soap, electronics and phallic shaped toys in every imaginable colour.

14 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The waterfall on the Sangu

Winter leaves us too early every year, and is already bidding adieu this time too, but if you want to catch a touch of it still, head to the hills and valleys in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Banda Islands - birth place of the Nutmeg

That little brown nut you grate into your meat curry or favorite sweet or drink, and which fills your kitchen with its heady, inviting aroma, is exported to the world out countries like Granada and Sri Lanka. But before it got to these exotic sounding places, the little nutmeg had its own fascinating history.

4 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Ciudad del Este - A window into Paraguay

Ciudad del Este, Paraguay's second largest city, is famous. But perhaps not for the more conventional reasons. Set on the tri-border with Brazil's Foz do Iguaçu and Argentina's

31 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Barishal the unspoilt

Legends speak of holy men travelling places carried by large fish, turtles, birds, carpets, animals, jinns, and such, but I am yet to hear of anyone travelling on the back of an Ilish.

28 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Planet's top mass travel frenzy begins in China

The world's largest annual human migration－the Spring Festival travel rush－kicks off in China, with nearly 3 billion trips expected to be made in the 40 days from January 21 to March 1.

23 January 2019, 04:58 AM

The treasure vault of ancient Egypt

Many of you know or have at least heard of the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London or the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

17 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Cambridge: Of arts, architecture and history

Needless to say, the English county town of Cambridge is much more widely talked about for its academia aspect rather than its enriched culture, arts and architectural beauty.

14 January 2019, 18:00 PM

The Mighty Iguazú

Looking down, I saw what resembled a mossy carpet, its tight weave separated only by the muddy Paraná River, snaking its way through the vast stretch of jungle.

10 January 2019, 18:00 PM

In The Land Of The Pharaohs

These are the voyages of one intrepid couple. Our nine-day mission: to explore strange new places. To seek out new cultures and an old civilisation. To boldly go where few Bangladeshis have gone before! Queue music!

20 December 2018, 18:00 PM

LOVELY LITTLE LIECHTENSTEIN

It wasn't supposed to go this way, but it did. My bus from Cologne to Munich took five hours longer than it was supposed to and, as such

13 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Montevideo Musings

What we'd thought would be a breezy two-hour bus ride from the coastal town of Colonia del Sacramento to the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, quickly turned into a four-hour affair.

29 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Ming's man-made marvel

The Great Wall of China stands as a testament of human endurance and perseverance. Few things in this world can compare to this awe-inspiring architectural feat. I knew I had to go and see it on my recent trip to Beijing.

22 November 2018, 18:00 PM

The Muted Delights of Colonia del Sacramento

The ferry, a much smaller vessel than I'd expected, bobbed up and down as it cut across the Rio del Plata. We were en route to Colonia del Sacramento—a quaint coastal town in Uruguay.

15 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Lost in translation: Papua New Guinea wins the language Olympics

If you are travelling to Papua New Guinea, you don't need to pack a phrasebook, you need to bring an entire library. With 841 living tongues and a colourful creole lingua franca, this Pacific nation is the undisputed world champion of linguistic diversity.

15 November 2018, 11:51 AM