Kaptai Lake:_____was the most beautiful morning for me..🛶..beyond Nature

Days in Kaptai:🏞️🛶

Time Spent amongst trees is never wasted time....🧡🏵️

---Katrina Mayer

Take a break from the busy schedule of daily life and visit Kaptai. Hope everybody on this site also had a great day!
Our tour plan was to travel all night to Kaptai at night and from Kaptai at night to Dhaka the next day. So, according to the plan, we all arrived at Kamalapur railway station by 10:30 pm, there were eight tourists, 5 of them joined from Dhaka and 3 from Chittagong.

The train leaves Kamalapur at half past eleven. We reached Chittagong railway station at 8 in the morning. It's time to have breakfast. One thing to keep in mind is that the food shops on the other side of the railway station were not open very early in the morning. After breakfast at Khabar Hotel, Parota-Dal-Dimvaji-Tea, we set off for Bahaddarhat. Leaving the food hotel, take the New Market Junction ten to fifteen steps to the left of hand, from where bus No. 1 leaves for Bahaddarhat, it will take a maximum of twenty-five minutes. Tell the bus helper to drop you off at Bahaddarhat terminal, the next stop at Bahaddarhat is Bahaddarhat terminal, rent 10 / -
As soon as you get off the bus at the terminal and cross the road, you will see the bus calling Kaptai and Lichu Bagan. Some buses go directly to Kaptai and some to Lichubagan. We got on the bus directly to Kaptai which dropped us off right in front of the Zoom restaurant. If you get on the bus at Lichubagan, you can get off there and take CNG to Zoom Restaurant again.

Or you can take the first bus number 1 and get off at the head of Kaptai Road without getting off at the terminal. From there you can take CNG all the way. However, since the road to Lichubagan is bad, my personal suggestion would be to go by bus. It took about 2 hours and 10 minutes to reach Zoom Restaurant by bus.
Bus fare from Terminal to Kaptai Zoom Restaurant 60 / -
Bus fare from Terminal to Lichubagan 45 / -
We had already booked cottages at Zoom Restaurant, they have three cottages - Venus, Helen and Karnafuli - to stay in the cottages you have to spend 1000, 1500 and 2000 tk per day.
Zoom Restaurant is run and controlled by the entire BGB, there is no restriction on having a family in the cottage but boys and girls have to take separate cottages for friends to visit and must take proper permission in advance with reference to a person of defense. One in front of the girls' cottage and a total of five armed BGB guards in the entire Zoom restaurant area are on guard 24 hours a day, so there was no need to worry about safety. After checking in at the cottage, we freshened up and headed out to Kaptai Kayak Club. Although kayaking and boating were available at Zoom Restaurant, our personal preference was Kaptai Kayak Club - just 100 yards from Zoom Restora.

Kayaking per boat costs 250 tk, with student ID 200 tk. In other words, everyone can enjoy one hour of kayaking for only 100 tk.

Kayaking is a different experience, you are floating on Kaptai Lake in the middle of the hill, sitting on a chair in a narrow boat, you can touch the green water with your hands if you want, just close your eyes and think about the scenario. However, the thrill of kayaking you will never understand by reading the travel experience, so you have to do kayaking
We did kayaking for about an hour and twenty minutes but we were not charged extra.

At the end of the kayaking we went out of the kayak club with a huge hunger at the floating paradise restaurant just a hundred and fifty hands in front and I will never forget the taste of this lunch. Simply the best. He is very hungry, he has a lot of clean and fresh food. And if you look to the right, you will see the ruined view of Kaptai Lake, although the food was so much fun that I did not look at it while eating, but after the meal I saw the beauty of Kaptai sitting in a chair on the front verandah. The hospitality of the owner of the floating paradise and the waiter who served the food was extraordinary. We had four chickens and one fish. We had pulses, potatoes, salad, three cold drinks and two liters of water. . In total, the food bill of five people was 1090 rupees, 50 tk discount was received 1040.

After lunch we went to the front of Zoom Restaurant again to get CNG. From there to Kaptai Jetty there is no CNG fare of 25 tk per person. This road is going like a dream with CNG, hills on one side and Kaptai Lake on the other side, your CNG is running on the road in between. On the way you will see the cargo crossing system, if you have permission you can go to Kaptai Hydropower Station. We get off at the jetty, we don't have a medium sized boat from the jetty to land at Navy Lakeview Island for only 75 / -, but we decided not to go to the side of Navy View Island because we didn't like it, so we told the boatman to take us around the island. To see, Kaptai Dam can be seen from the island, you can go closer if you want. As it was evening we did not go there anymore.

After wandering around the island we come back to the jetty, sitting on a small boat on Kaptai Lake and watching the sunset, think of the feeling: ') I will remember that time for a long time. The cost of the boat is 75 + 75 = 150 tk. You will get CNG from Jetty Ghat to Zoom. After getting on the CNG, I went to Kaptai Bazaar a little further to get the next morning Dhaka-bound bus ticket. The bus will pass in front of the Zoom restaurant, it will pick us up from there in the morning. At the end of the ticket, I go back to Zoom restaurant on CNG, by then it is evening. Dinner was served at the Zoom restaurant between 7:30 and 7:30 but we wanted to eat hot food a little late and there was no barbecue arrangement at the Zoom. So I got out of the zoom and walked back to Floating Paradise. They had a problem with the stove. At first they said that barbecue or grill would not be possible that day. Maybe there will be regular dinner. No problem brother, Aisen, I will make arrangements.
After eating chicken samucha and tea happily, he was asked to pay the bill at once during dinner: There are lots of nice places to hang out in the fresh zoom restaurant, sitting in a place next to the swing we played UNO for a while, then played ludo with a classical radio song. That's how the conversation came to be at dinner time. We went and sat on the verandah of the floating restaurant, staring at the stars all over the sky for a long time. Then came the grill, with parota and sauce! After eating the grill while sitting on the verandah, it was time to fly the lantern. We took lanterns from Dhaka, flying lanterns from a very high floating restaurant verandah right on Kaptai Lake and watching the sky full of stars, think for a while and decide whether to go to Kaptai or not. When you wake up in the morning you will see thick fog all around, little by little the fog will subside and you will see Kaptai is a different form of this. Enjoyed the morning in Kaptai lake, the most beautiful morning for me....

Hole day we walked around the area....Kaptai is more then our sadness..it will make you happy.

Get ready to see all this and get on the Dhaka bus from the front of Zoom Restaurant at 4:45 in the evening .
Total cost (per capita)
Dhaka-Chittagong (Train): 345 / -
Breakfast: 80 / -
Railway Station - Terminal (Bus No. 1): 10 / -
Terminal-Zoom Restaurant: 80 / -
Cottage: Two (Helen and Rajnigandha): 1000 + 2000 = 3000 / -, each 600 / -
Kayaking at Kayak Club: 100 / -
Lunch: 210 / -
Zoom - Kaptai Jetty (CNG): 25 / -
Sampane Ghora: 150 / - (30 / - per person) There are boats of different sizes, depending on you
Jetty - Zoom: 25 / -
Breakfast: 20 / -
Dinner: 120 / - (Grill and one parota 100 / -, we took two parota extras)
Kaptai-Dhaka: 550 / -
Total: 2150 / -

We had to spend extra money in different ways, like we took the lanterns, some food on the way to the bus on the train. Anyway, all in all, go to Kaptai with 2300 tk, I promised it would be a tour that will be remembered for a lifetime.