It was late April and i was getting jaded with the robotic life of metropoliton. So, i called one of my friend to get out of this city and be in joy for some times. Thats when we decided to go some place with river banks and lakes, also i have never seen a Mine before, i have seen great hole in planet surface but not mines with commercial purpose. I with my friends decided to go someplace different than normal vacation spots like Saint martiens, Cox's bazar (with the longest sea beach and 5 star hotels) and even The Man groves (Sundorban). We decided to start our journey in 30th april, we planned our journey for 3 days and in the mean time we decided to visit a old friend of ours in Mymenshing. Actually he was the main initiator for our tour and convener (you can say that cause he invested a lot of his time and money planning for this odessy.
Don't be palled by by long and descriptive intorduction, cause the real fun is about to begain. We started from Mohakhali bustand. The plan was to get there before 5 P.M. but i was requested to collect tickets in advance. I went there at 4 and usually with my giddy knowledge of Street direction i did have to walk about 1 Km to reach that station, and wait for about 1 hr for my palls to show up. My glorious mind was pissed off cause of heat and all the honking and exhaust for all the non-regulated, old n ruined buses. My friends and tour mates come eventually with a lot of hasty and upshot of Jam in dhaka city. I was introduced with two of my new friends Tanim and jimi. The arrival of Tanim to Mohakhali was interesting enough. Due to the fixed time and rush of people leaving dhaka city for the 3 days gap from 30th april to 2nd april, he has to walk, run and let alone hike on some cases to reach Mokhali. Eventually he reached but that was too late, so we decieded to leave one of us and run for Mymenshing.
The journey to mymenshing is about 2.30 hrs but for too much traffic it took about 4 hrs. We rested in a hotel and our rest of the friends Shakil and Tamin joined us. We run for Shakil's home. Shakil's house is a well decorated 4 stored brick build, we get to bath and well that was like heavenly if you ask me cause that was very releaving. We did a lot of mischeaf, had a walk at 3.00 Pm, Oh another friend joined us at Mymenshing Shamim, he is an intern at MMC (Mymensngh medical college), he was a good pal. We went to bed at nearly 4 P.M. and our plan was to run for Birisiri at 8.00 PM. I have one thing to utter, the food at Shakils house was awesome! I really ate a lot not only for that i was hungry but also for the taste. Wow! my mouth is still watering!.
As it was May 1st we really had some problem for the vehicles, we had a lot of Hard time to even reach the bus stand at mymenshing. Mymenshing is good town with freshness all over her unlike Dhaka city. The bus we take was like MURIR TIN in our native language, Piece of Crap in english. Well at least it did the trick, sent us in Birisiri, but we have to push that piece to start that cause the self started of the pell-melled bus was not working.
After a 2.30 hrs of trecherous journey, we reached Norshingdhi, we had a fun running in the bus cause of some beautiful faces and companies! Whatever that may be, we then take three "rickshaw" to reach the main building. We get to go to Shakil's relative house where we were cordially welcomed and refreshed. I had to eat two piece of sweet and a piece of bread. Well then another member of our tour crew, probably some relative of shakil (sorry shakil that i can't remember his name) showed us the way to our first destination - "KOHINUR HILL" famous for the calcium carbonate mining. The mining used to stop some times ago, but this is why we get to see the mine very well. I meet accidently with my training supervisor from NOVO healthcare and pharma Ltd, her name was Tania (full name i dont remember). She was with this husband who is also an known person to all of us. The road to kohinur Pahar was some thing, its like i was in a dead end to earth cause of its trenches and branches, but the scene when we reached there was worth it.
After that we get to see the HAJANG MATA MONUMENT, from where we started to movement to the CHURCH. We have a nice talk with some fellow people who was not so chatty but very helpful. Here are some photos.
By the way did i told you that we have to rent a paddle boat to cross the infamous SOMESHORI RIVER. Man that was awesome ride, bur slow!
In the next day, we went to see the border of India-Bangladesh which was not so far from our present location,
we had a lot fun but we were getting short of our vacation time so we had to return dhaka, we brought a ticket and returned home in the next day. (sorry for the quick finish, but i am tired and need to go to office).
That was the end of our birisiri journey, but i personally will not forget this tour cause it helped me to learn a lot and dont forget that i am introduced with my new friends. Thats something for me, right.