Bengal New Year & Charak Worship Photo Tour Bangladesh
A unique photo experience in the heart of South Asia
Bangladesh is south Asia’s greenest jewel – a country braided with rivers, with a rich culture waiting to be explored by pioneering travelers and enthusiast photographers. It is a paradise for photographers. This is one of the world’s most densely populated countries, but lovely and friendly peoples always welcome you.
Discover celebrating the most colorful Bengali New Year and Mongal Shovajatra rally UNESCO world heritage recognized. Hindu ritual festival the Charak worship most traditional and folk festival, floating watermelon market, stone mine and more. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s riches Festivals, peoples, daily life, and culture with amazing photography opportunities.
Trip Date
Date: 04-15 April 2024,
04-15 April 2025 and
04-15 April 2026
Duration: 12 Days 11 Nights
Extension: 2-5 Days Extension Available
Tour Type & Group
Photography Tour & Workshop
Small Group
Maximum 8 Participants.
+ One Photographer Guide
+ One Tour Manager
Skill Level
Suitable for ALL Skill Levels,
Novice to Advanced or
Beginner to Professional Photographer.
Physical Fitness
Easy to Moderate,
Suitable For Any Mature Age Level.
Day 01: Arrival Dhaka, Bangladesh
An Image Tours representative will greet you at the airport and then take you to the hotel for check-in and rest. This evening Introduce our Photo guide, Mr. Yousuf Tushar followed by a special welcome dinner & enjoy the slideshow presentation by Yousuf Tushar, interact with Tushar, and you will get more information and ideas which will be helpful for your journey. (L.D.)
Day 02: Old Dhaka City
In the morning your first photoshoot at old Dhaka city, Peoples & their costume, rickshaws. Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, World’s most population density city but peoples are the most friendly so it’s easier for you to capture people’s photos. After lunch visit fruits market and watermelon floating market on the river. (B.L.D.)
Photoshoot: Rickshaws (Tri-wheeler bicycle), Peoples, Traditional Costumes, Streets Photography and watermelon floating market.
Day 03: Spring Festival – Shipyard, Dhaka
In the morning explore the old Dhaka city riverside, you will capture hundreds of people crossing the river by local small boats and many boats anchored like flowers on the river bed, also capturing the markets and activities of the riverside. Next, we will enter the Shipyard, a slum home to Asia’s largest shipyard. A labyrinth-like city in which giant skeletons of old ships provide work for around 15,000 workers, with the task of dismantling ships, repairing and creating new boats with the recovered parts. (B.L.D.)
Photoshoot: Spring festival, Portraits of girls & women, country boats, Shipyard.
Day 03: Brick Factories, Dhaka
Around 300 brick fields surround Dhaka city, where brick laborers make brick by hand in traditional processes. Clay to red brick-making process using the mold, you will explore every step of brick-making. After making raw bricks by hand stack them in rows to dry in the sun, after drying in the sun raw bricks are carried by workers on head to the brick kiln by a line for burning. You will also capture portraits of workers with red dust covering their faces, brick laborers living conditions in small slums around the brick field. Next, explores the local train station and street photography. (B.L.D.)
Photoshoot: Brick-field, Red bricks carry by the head, Train station & Street.
Day 05: Coal Port – Boat fishing
Drive through North Bengal the most rural beauty of Bangladesh. The morning session explores the riverside coal port where every day more than 3000 laborers come here to unload black coals, bricks, and sands carried on their heads from lighter vessels. The second session explores rural traditional 4-boat fishing on the Jamuan River. (B.L.D.).
Photoshoot: Daily labors carry carry coal and Traditional 4-boat fishing.
Day 06: Red Chilies – Yogurt Factories
This morning we will enter the biggest hub of red pepper/chili in Bangladesh, explore the most spectacular red chili processing on sundry, village people drying red chilies sundry on the courtyard, While sorting the peppers they create peppers lines in the yard. You will enjoy a wonderful feeling while sitting at the end of each line picking the chilies and capturing this scene on your camera. Next, driving to Dhaka, on the way we will stop villages and photography on curd and yogurt making by traditional process. You will explore every step of curd making from collecting milk to the final production of crude. (B. L.D.)
Photoshoot: Red chilies and crude factories.
Day 07: Leather Processing – Old Motor Parts Street
The second session enters the leather processing area where people dry leather in the sun and leather workers work in small industries. Next, we will visit the Plastic recycling area where men, women & children work on plastic recycling, sitting in stacks of plastic bottles cleaning and sorting thousands of plastic bottles. After lunch visit the reused motor parts street market. From screws and nuts to engines, the reused motor parts market of old Dhaka city has been the best solution for all kinds of reconditioning and second-hand spare parts. (B.L.D.)
Photoshoot: Leather Processing, Plastic recycling and Old Motor Parts Street.
Day 08: Batik Village & Rice Factories
Drive through to northeast districts, and on the way you will explore the largest tie-dying fabric center in all of Bangladesh, a place where workers dye fabrics by hand and spread them on the ground or on racks to dry in the baking sun. This riot of colour changes every day and we will spend some time creating images of the workers of the cloth while exploring lines and composition in photography. Continuing our visual odyssey, we delve into the captivating world of rice factories. Amidst the rhythmic symphony of bustling workers, our cameras artfully frame the choreography of labor, capturing the intricate processes that transform rice from field to table. The lines of rice paddies stretch their lush green hues, a testament to nature’s bounty.(B.L.D.)
Photoshoot:Batik Village, sun-dry rice process & children playing.
Day 09: Stone Mine at North zone
The morning will drive for stone mine on the way we will enter the enchanting realm of a dump yard. Here the ethereal blend of morning fog and swirling smoke of garbage fires creates a dramatic and evocative setting. Next, The stone mine is located at the foot of the beautiful Meghalaya Hills in the northeastern part of Bangladesh. It is known for its lush green hills, rolling tea gardens, and a mosaic of stones and rocks. Around 15000 stone labors (men, women & children) are engaged with stone searching, collecting and crushing in this area. You will explore people are searching and collecting stone by local traditional boats, winnowing stones, crushing stones by hand. (B. L.D.)
Photoshoot: Garbage field and stone mine area.
Day 10: Charak Worship
Explore the most interesting Hindu ritual festival the Charka worship. A group of Hindu devotees performs the rituals of Charak Puja. It is a very enchanting folk festival of the Southern Belt of Bangladesh and West Bengal. It is also known as “Nil Puja”. The believers of the Hindu religion celebrate this on the last day of the Bengali month of the year (Chaitra Songkranti). People believe that the festival will carry prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year. Before hanging on the Charak tree devotees paint their bodies and faces, and perform folk dances and ritual activities. (B.L.D)
Photoshoot: Charak Worship, Village fair.
Day 11: Bengal New Year
Celebrating the most colorful and the biggest festival of Bangladesh. Explore the UNESCO World Heritage MONGAL Rally, Folk and cultural events. People wear colorful traditional dress, Sharee, Panjabi, Gamcha. End of the day you have free time for shopping at the market near the hotel. Special Farewell Dinner tonight, spectacular views over the city, and time to review your images by Yousuf Tushar. (B. L.D.)
Photoshoot: Peoples, faces, Rally, traditional costume, and cultural activities
Day 12: Chicken Market- Departure
Early Morning Explore the chicken market. In this market poultry vendors display live chickens in pyramid-shaped baskets made of twine so that customers can buy the chicken of their choice. After breakfast prepare to check out the hotel. According to your individual Flight departure time, we will drop you at the airport and bid a fond farewell. We hope your unforgettable memories call you again to this land and show up your Bangladesh’s great images. (B.).
Photoshoot: Chicken Market.
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Our photography expeditions are not only a simple photo trip it’s a photography workshop. Whether you are a beginner, keen amateur or professional photographer we want you to get the best possible pictures on every our tour. Each of our participants will get the right infield guidance from understanding all camera settings, creating outstanding compositions, perfect exposer on the different light conditions, developing a personal style to finalizing ideas in image editing software.
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Yousuf Tushar EFIAP, Tour Leader
Tushar is recognized as one of the leading freelance documentary photographers based in Bangladesh. As well as he is a Travel & Art photographer, writer, instructor, organizer, and judge of National & international photography competitions. He has years of experience guiding photo tours & workshops. His wide & long-time experience in Travel photography, Organizing, teaching, and prestigious international award-winning made him one of the best photographers in Bangladesh. He has excellent knowledge about the perfect places to capture a photo of every location in Bangladesh. He loves to help with hands-on experience in a Creative learning environment while out in the field, and he absolutely loves leading photo tours! Since 2000 he has been working full-time professional photographer, he has traveled to many countries as a travel photographer. His works have been published in Times UK, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes magazine, BBC, National Geographic, Daily Mail, Sunday Post, Express UK, The Sun, The Atlantic, USA Today, and renowned international photo agencies. His photographs were exhibited in different international photo exhibitions in Asia, Europe & USA. He has owned more than a hundred National & International prestigious photographic awards including HPA-UNESCO china, Emirates photo contest, Asahi Shimbun Japan, United Nations IYC Singapore, People & Planet Australia, PX3 Paris, CBRE Urban photographer of the year, Link Lady, SIENA International, A Photo Reporter, New York-Manhattan, celebrating Life Bangladesh and numerous FIAP & PSA patronage Award. Presently he is the Secretary-General & FIAP Liaison officer of the Bangladesh Photographic Society. More Details about him
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