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Saint Martins Island
St. Martins
Island is the most beautiful Coral Island where you will find live corals. Its
only 30 km from Teknaf and you can go there by local motorboat, tourist boats,
or sea truck.
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[Coral Beach at St. Martins Island]
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This small
coral island about 10km (6mi) southwest of the southern tip of the
mainland is a tropical cliché, with beaches fringed with coconut palms and
bountiful marine life. There’s nothing more strenuous to do here than soak
up the rays, but it’s a clean and peaceful place without even a mosquito
to disrupt your serenity. |
It’s possible to
walk around the island in a day because it measures only 8 sq km (3 sq mi),
shrinking to about 5 sq km (2 sq mi) during high tide. Most of island’s 5500
inhabitants live primarily from fishing, and between October and April fisher
people from neighboring areas bring their catch to the island’s temporary
wholesale market.
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[Wild Orchides in the coconut Garden at St. Martins
Island]
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In this Island,
you will find the beautiful Coral reef and long Coral beach and lots of
coconut trees. The local name of the coconut is Narikel and the original
name of this Island is Narikel Jinjira is derived from that. Accommodation
in St. Martins Island is limited, so it is advisable to book accommodation
before you plan to go to this Island. Motel Nijhum is one of the best hotels
in St. Martins Island. To book in Motel Nijhum, confirm you reservation from
Dhaka. You will hardly get a chance to stay in this hotel if you are a
sudden visitor of St. Martins Island. The other good hotels are Prashad
Paradise & Sraboni Bilash. |
Booking of these
hotels are also possible from Dhaka. All these three hotels are situated
adjacent to Seashore. From these hotels lobby or veranda, you can enjoy the Sea.
There are some other motels and hotels established in St. Martins Island.
Overnight staying
in St. Martins Island is really an exotic feeling where you will feel and listen
the sound of Sea. If you are lucky enough then you can spend the exotic moonlit
night at St. Martins Island. The beauty of Full moon in St. Martins Island
cannot be expressed, if you are not there at that time.
Cheera-dwip is a part of St. Martins Island but divided during tides. You
can go to Cheera-dwip by walking. About two and a half hours walk from St.
Martins Island or you can go there also by local motorboat or tourist boat. In
that Island you will find the Corals - living and dead all over the Island. A
small bush is there which in the only green part of Cheera-dwip, enhancing the
beauty of this island. People do not live in this Island, so advisable for the
tourists to go there early and come back by afternoon.
Nijhum Island
This Island could
be the next prime tourist spot after St. Martins Island. It’s a natural beauty
of mangrove forests where you will find Dears of specific species and Monkeys. A
huge numbers of migrated birds come in this Island in winter season, enhancing
the beauty of this Island. The communication is not excellent but if some one
wishes to bear the trouble to go to this Island, he will be enchant to see the
beauty of this Island. You can go to this Island either from Dhaka or from
Chittagong.
From Chittagong
first you will to go Hatia Island by Motor boat or Ship and from there you can
go to Nijhum Island by local motor boat. From Dhaka you can go Tomzuddion by
launch from Sadarghat launch terminal. From there you can go to Nijhum Island by
local motorboat.
Accommodation is very limited for the tourists in this Island. You can take
foods from local restaurants but be careful about the quality of foods. If you
can take prior permission for forest department then you can stay in forest rest
house in Nijhum Island. Another possibility for accommodation is in District
Parishod Guest house. If you take the permission from Thana administration (TNO)
of Hatia you can also stay in the District Parishod Guest house. For the
adventure seekers Nijhum Island could be one of the greatest experience of
journey and it will be a memorable enjoyment to stay and pass some days in this
isolated Island.
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