Keen boaters should visit the Sunderbans, where rowboats are the only way to get around the majority of this mangrove national park.
Hindu festivals follow a different calendar but they generally fall at much the same date each year.
The Holi Festival or Festival of Colours, commonly known as the spring festival, is celebrated in the first week of March. Durga Puja is celebrated during October, and statues of the goddess astride a lion, with her ten hands holding ten different weapons, are placed in every Hindu temple. Although Dhaka International Airport is far from being a major Asian crossroads, there are plenty of international flights. Indeed, many travellers use Dhaka as the gateway to the Indian subcontinent to take advantage of cheap fares from Europe. Bangkok and Calcutta are the main destinations for flights in and out of Bangladesh.