Tanguar haor

                                    Tanguar Haor

Bangladeshi people are really greedy travelers. When they get a chance during any vacation, they want to go on a tour. Sometimes it can be a group tour, family tour, couple tour or single. In our country there are lots of beautiful places to visit. Nowadays Tanguar haor is most popular for all kinds of people.

Tanguar Haor (in Bengali: টাঙ্গুয়ার হাওর), is located in the Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj District in Sylhet division Bangladesh. It takes roughly 6-7 hours to reach here from Dhaka. After getting off at the Surma Bridge just off the Bus station, you need to hire a bike or a CNG Taxi to get yourself to Tahirpur. From Tahirpur you can hire a boat and enjoy the beauty of Haor. This place is known as a unique wetland ecosystem of national importance and has come into international focus. The area of Tanguar Haor including 46 villages within the haor is about 100 square kilometers . It is the source of livelihood for more than 40,000 people in those areas. 

Every winter the haor is home to about 200 types of migratory birds from different countries. In 1999–2000, the government earned 7,073,184 taka as revenue just from fisheries of the haor. There are more than 140 types of freshwater fish in the haor. The most predominant among them are: ayir, Catfish, baim, tara, gutum, gulsha, tengra, titna, garia, beti, kakia. Gulli, balua, ban tulsi, nal khagra etc. There are also freshwater wetland trees in this haor. Plant species like Hizol (Barringtonia acutangula), Clematis cadmia, Crataeva nurvala, Euryale ferox, Nelumbo nucifera, Ottelia alismoides, Oxystelma secamone var. Secamone, Pongamia pinnata, Rosa clinophylla, and Typha species are present.

It has become more popular with tourists.Tourist main attraction due to the number of houseboats playing at Tanguar Haor. There is a big houseboat in Tanguar Haor. It is a huge, slow-moving barge used for leisure trips for the visitors. This service is inspired from the houseboat of Rabindranath Tagore used during his visit from  Shilaidaha. It is in service from 2021. It is about 71 feet long and about 14 feet wide in the middle.

Haor is a water body which dries in the winter. So the best time to go here is from june to October. People can really enjoy this place a lot.