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Cox’s Bazar is known for its wide sandy beach
which is claimed to be the world’s longest natural sandy sea beach. It is an
unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope. it is a good place for sea
bathing. It is located 150 km south of Chittagong. Cox’s Bazar is also known by
the name “Panowa”, the literal translation of which means “yellow flower”. Its
other old name was “Palongkee”. The modern Cox’s Bazar derives its name from
Captain Cox, an officer serving in British India in 18th century. Although
Cox’s Bazar is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh, it
has yet to become a major international tourist destination, due to lack of
publicity.
Total Area : 2491.86 sq. km
Population : About 2.2 million
How to go Cox’s
Bazar?
154 km from Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar is
associated by a well-built highway. There are Dhaka-Chittagong- Cox’s Bazar
round ways Biman (Bangladesh Airlines) flight 3 days a week and flights from
private airlines like GMG airlines and United Airways functioning flights to
and from Cox’s Bazar. Cox’s Bazar by waterways from Chittagong is a romantic
journey.
Food
Parjatan Restaurant Shagorika at Hotel Shaibal, Upal &
Probal Motel restaurants are the eating places from the Tourist Corporation.
Privately owned restaurants such as Jhuban, Bakoli, Diamond, Niribili, Shojoni
are worth trying. Prices are reasonable.
Places of
interest along the beach
Cox’s Bazar is famous for its
beautiful sea beach and for sunset. Its has also some other tourist
attractions.
Laboni Beach
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Laboni beach is the main beach of
Cox’s Bazar. It is the closest sea beach to the town. Near the beach there are
hundreds of shops selling souvenirs and beach accessories to the tourists.
Enani beach
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Himchari
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Himchari is located about 18km south
of Cox’s Bazar. Himchari is famous for its waterfalls. The road to Himchari
runs by the open sea on one side and hills on the other which makes the journey
to Himchari very attractive.
