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keokaradong tour story : Part 1


amar last keokaradong tour er golpo ami apnader bolbo ekahne pic er moddho dea. amra total 8 jon gesilam. tar moddhe 1 jon rumabazar theke back korse . 4 jon boga lake porjonto jeye surrender korse. r samne jai nai that is keokaradong e uthe nai. amra at last 3 jon uthsilam keokaradong er upor. eta amar second time keokaradong jaoa.er age ami 2004 e gesilam.tokhon ami keokaradong- tajindong-thanchi hoye back korsilam. but ebar just keokaradong jeye abar back korsi boga lake. ami fell korsi keokaradong jaoar jonno keo jodi net e kono search kore tahole enough info or photo paoa jai na. but amar ai story help shamanno holeo help korbe ekjon ke bujhte how to go  there.

it is a photo story with 16 part. here  gose part one




boring boat journey from "Ruma Ghat" to "Ruma Bazar".  it takes almost 2 hrs to reach ruma bazar. we started at 11 am and reach ruma bazar at 1 pm. last night bus journey from dhaka to bandarban and "chader gari" journey from bandarban to Ruma Ghat made us  tired.



at ruma bazar we first select our guide, Zing Sang,16 yrs old Bom boy. after lunch and getting permission from Army, we started for Boga Lake from Ruma Bazar at 2.30 pm. Army didn't want give us permission to walk at night.they want us to stay at Ruma Bazar on that night  but we were so eager to walk at night that Army finally permit us to go from Ruma bazar to Boga lake. it took 5.5  hrs to reach Boga lake.we walked 5 hrs and the interval part was 30 minutes. We reached at 8 pm. The night tracking was really risky and enjoyable. the slipery  rock and mud made it hard to walk at night. we had 6 torch for 8 ppl. 2 guys without torch were always in the middle of the group. starting on27th december at 11 am, after 21 hrs starting fomr dhaka,on 28th December,2005, we reached Boba Lake,the highest lake from the sea level in Bangladesh. it is 1578 feet high and 115 feet deep.




these rocks r really slipery. they r getting wet for  thousands of yrs. it is impossible to put the legs on the big rocks. we had to put our feet between the rocks or on small rocks. we had to cross more than 50 "jhiri"(almost 58) between ruma bazar and boga lake.



all the jhiri were knee deep and current was huge. it ir really hard to control the body keeping a heavy bag on shoulder.

keokaradong tour story : Part 2



Boga Mukh. this is the only villege between Ruma Bazar and Boga Lake. from there , Boga lake is almost 2.5 hrs.



the fast , strong,violent current of  "jhiri" flowing on the rock.



bom boy in "Boga Mukh" village.



a bom woman. bom r the mainstreem in Ruma thana.

keokaradong tour story: Part 3




this is Boga Lake in the morning. normally boga lake's color changes 3 times from morning to evening. at morning, it is blue, at noon it is deep green and at evening it is deep red. it happens cause the surrounding hills reflects those color in boga lake in different session of the day. at evening  the hills reflects red due to setting sun.




at morning, we had to report to Army camp in Boga Lake which is situated on one of the hill that surrounds boga lake.after reaching the camp, we saw this amazing view. we were almost 1600 feet high from the sea level.

after reporting to army camp, we started for keokaradong form boga lake at 9.30 am. on the way, we saw these bom children. these littile boys and girls were coming from darjeeling para, a village almost 40 mins walking distance from Keokaradong peak. after walking such a long time they were enjoying and when we came back from keokaradong peak, we were almost half dead !

the bom woman has thier own style to carry goods. they use their head rather than the soulder like us.






stylist elderly bom.

keokaradong tour story : Part 4



taking rest on the way to keokaradong. it is a "jhorna". in the winter,normally threre r 2 "jhorna" from boga lake to keokaradong and both r near boga lake. but in rainy season i can't imagine how furious the "jhorna" become cause even in winter both the "jhorna" r full of water and flow in full swing. these jhorna water r very cold and clear.ppl drink it even we drank it. this is the only source of water for the tribal ppl.it took 2.5 hrs (without any bag and baggage) for us to reach Keokaradong peak. last year, i moved with my heavy back pack and that took 5 hrs to go on the top of Keokaradong from Boga Lake.



way to Keokaradong. the first man is our guide, Jing Sang,16. after Jing, it was Shahrear and pamir and i, asad was at the last. sometimes the walkway becomes very slippery.



normally most of the path between boga lake and keokaradong is full of jungle. tribal ppl clear the jungle and made a narrow walkway . but except the walkway, most of the places r jungle. in the winter snakes hibernate but we saw 1 snake when we were coming back from Keokaradong peak. We were walking in a row and jing was the first man. He saw the snake first on the walkway. he forbid us not to advance. we stopped and saw that Jing took a small stick and tried to hit the snake but the red color 1.5 feet long snake moved away through the jungle. We become very astonished cause last yr i passed 5 days in this region but din't see any snake and it is winter so the snakes should be under soil in hibernation. we were scared a bit. but Jing told us not to b scared cause snake is a testy food ! ! !




to me the most beautiful view on the way to keokaradong is the blue sky(neelakash). i wonder how the sky become such blue ! ! !  ppl who didn't see it can't belive it. they may think that i might edit the picture but believe me this was the natural sky we saw from keokaradong. even from ke peak of keokaradong we saw that one part of the sky is deep blue but the other part is normal blueish white.



there r lots of "kash ful" on the hills,some of those r even 10-12 feet high.

keokaradong tour story : Part 5



this is "Darjeeling Para". the only villege between boga lake and keokaradong. it is near keokaradong, from darjeeling para, keokaradong is only 45 min path, just go up and up. actually keokaradong means the peak. darjeeling para itself situated on the keokaradong hill. we took rest there. filled our water bottol. darjeeling para ppl have to struggle for water. they have to go down several hundred feet for water and jhiri or Jhorna is the only source of their water. in winter most of the jhiri become dry so thay have struggle even more for water.



this is the stretcher of the tribal ppl. they move with this stretcher through the hilly walkway. as soon as we reach darjeeling para we saw that the bom boys were taking that woman to Bandarban town which is almost 7 hrs continuous walking (darjeeling para to ruma bazar)+ 3 hrs moon car (ruma bazar - bandarban(47 km) ) distance. they don't have any medicine let alone doctor.  



these  tribal ppl (wood cutter) were coming down from keokaradong. i was thinking we could not bring our bag  because of waight but how hardworking these ppl r.



we r very near to keokaradong peak. the lonely tree and the lonely cloud attrected me greatly and that reminds me a nice song of James .......

neel akash joto dur dekha jai
jiboner ai anginai
shopnogula heshe dhora dai
vul joto korechi ai jibone
konokichu neel hobe na
elomelo hoye geche je shob e
pari na vulte  je ami
kothin shomajer se badhon
shonali proti provate
badhoner smriti ese dhora dai
jiboner shobtuku hotasha
vule jaoa shomajer jatona
keno tumi paroni ta shoite
tomari shopno roye jai
akasher oi dur nilimai
shopnil dukkho gulo
ajibon shongi holo amar
adharer oi sesh shimanai
maya horiner bone
morichika dake isharai
oporadhi hoye shudhu ami
nijer kase aj ferari ...............




hilly kash ful. normally we think that the world looks green from the hill top but sometimes blue prevails over green. i wonder how deep this blueishness  can be. it is just like dream. this blueishness pacify our mind and entice us to  forget the hardness  of tracking through the hill.

keokaradong tour story : Part 6



bom girls near Darjeeling Para. Girls r very active there,very industrious. they carry huge amount of weight which we can  never think of.



never ending going up .



like a hunter as if just killed the tiger and now posing for the pic



the ups and downs of the keokaradong mountains. normally from here we think that reaching Keokaradong peak is only go up and when coming back is only come down. this is completely wrong. u have to cross several hills when going to Keokaradong.so u have to climb up a hill and again climb down the hill and on and on.