A Trip to The Land of Tea || Episode-1

It was 23^rd November, Wednesday, a fine sunny day having low heat in sun shine as winter is coming. We were very much excited to start our journey heading to the land of tea escaping from daily busy life of Dhaka for two days. Tushnim, my loving wife, woke up at 5 AM that was truly early dawn and prepared morning tea for me to help me get gid of bed before the sun and meet up natural call at home to avoid those circumstances during journey. At 6 AM, my baby boy Aafiq told me with a great excitement, “Baba! Yeehh! We’re going to Sreemangal today!” Hearing his sudden joyous voice, we wondered that Aafiq got up by himself without any pushing or forcing by his Mumma and he started his morning without crying!!!  

We started our journey at mostly 7 AM from our home riding up a private car though in long route high way private car is quite risky vehicle but our driver was very skilled so took a risk!  As it was the regular working day, already roads were going to start to be filled up by thousands of passersby and moving vehicles soon to be regular stacked, so our driver took a fast drive to 300 feet way to Sylhet route to avoid traffic jam. 

Yes! We did it. Before horrific traffic jam of morning office hour, we reached the beautiful way of 300 feet inside Basundhara area. Our car was moving though the wide street of 300 feet under slightly cloudy blue sky where flowing air was dusty as construction work was not yet completed and density of moving vehicle was also less comparing to other main roads of usual Dhaka. After a few minutes we crossed Kanchon bridge touching Narayangonj district. Then rural view exploring paddy field, some factories, local bazar etc. seen both side of high way. When we passed Narsingdi, a lot of “Gamcha” (one type local made thin and soft towel) sellers were seen at various local bazars especially huge crowd was seen at Madhobdi Bazar whose Gamcha is country famous for good quality. Thousands of garments and factory workers were walking beside roadside heading to their work place on the high way connecting Narsingdi and Kishoreganj.  

After a continuous travel for one and half hour, we took a break at Bhoirab of Kishoreganj in hotel named Jannat Hotel & Resort where washroom condition is much better than any other highway restaurant on the same way. Actually, during highway travelling we prefer to choose stoppage based on cleanliness of washroom. Anyway, food quality was good in Jannat. We did breakfast there after taking a small refreshment. The taste of tea is awesome there. No one should miss it if anybody goes to Jannat hotel. One of my colleagues told me that tea and beef are the best food of there. As it was morning, so we didn’t get chance to take a bite on beef. Anyway, our turns will come!   

   

[to be continued]