Kurigram, Rangpur
The Dharla flows right past Kurigram town; its bridge, embankments and sandbanks are where the town comes to walk, sit and watch the sunset.
The Dharla comes down from the Himalayan foothills through India, enters Bangladesh in Lalmonirhat and flows past Kurigram town before joining the Brahmaputra. Like the district’s other rivers, it floods in the monsoon and erodes its banks, and the embankment along the town is part of the effort to hold it back.
For visitors, the riverside is Kurigram’s everyday escape: in the dry season the water draws back to reveal broad sandbanks, and in the evening families, students and tea sellers gather on the embankment and near the bridge.
Take a rickshaw from town in the late afternoon.
Stroll along the embankment and, in the dry season, down onto the sandbanks.
Watch the sun go down over the river with tea from a stall, then return to town.
October to March, in the late afternoon
On the edge of Kurigram town; a short rickshaw or battery auto-rickshaw ride to the Dharla bridge and the embankment.
