Published by Sunday Life, UK

Bangladesh is still flying under the tourist radar as a travel destination, so when Far Horizon Tours Announced their inaugural river cruise through this mysterious country, intrigued, I Jumped at the chance.

Our journey would take us across the border from India to the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, the most densely populated city on Earth for its size then towards the Bay of Bengal to the mystic sundarbans. These are the largest mangrove swamps in the world, a Unesco World Heritage site, home to the man-calling Bengal tiger.