Some travellers want comfort, while others want a boat ride through an engulfed haor and a roaring waterfall so close that mist clings to their skin. If you are the second type, Sylhet is your perfect ...

The haors lie downstream. Hence, the region is known as Bhati-Bangla—the Bengal of the lowlands. Upstream, to the northeast, rise the hills of India. Meghalaya’s Cherrapunji and Bangladesh’s ...