St. Martins Island

St. Martins Island

St. Martins Island which local name is Narikel Jinjira the local name of the coconut is Narikel and there grows plentiful of coconut so local call it Narikel Jinjira. The most beautiful Coral Island where you will find live corals. This small coral island about 10km southwest of the southern tip of the mainland is a tropical cliché, with beaches fringed with coconut palms and bountiful marine life. It’s possible to walk around the island in a day because it measures only 8 sq km (3 sq mi), shrinking to about 5 sq km (2 sq mi) during high tide. Most of island’s 5500 people live mainly from fishing, and between October to April fishermen from neighboring areas bring their catch fish to the island’s temporary wholesale market. In this beautiful Island, you will find the long Coral beach and lots of coconut trees. Its only 30 km from Teknaf and you can go there by sea truck, local motorboat,

Accommodation in St. Martins Island is limited, so it is suitable to book room before you plan to go to this Island. Motel Nijhum is one of the best hotels in St. Martins Island. To book in Motel Nijhum, confirm you reservation from Dhaka. You will hardly get a chance to stay in this hotel if you are a sudden visitor of St. Martins Island. The other good hotels are Prashad Paradise & Sraboni Bilash. Booking of these hotels are also possible from Dhaka. All these three hotels are situated closest to Seashore. You can enjoy the Sea from these hotels lobby. The beauty of Full moon in St. Martins Island cannot be articulated, if anybody is not stay there at that time. Overnight staying in St. Martins Island is really an interesting feeling where you will feel and listen the sound of Sea.

Cheera-dwip is a part of St. Martins Island but divided during tides. You can go to Cheera-dwip by local motorboat or tourist boat. In that Island you will find the Corals - living and dead all over the Island. A small bush is there which in the only green part of Cheera-dwip, enhancing the beauty of this island. People do not live in this Island, so advisable for the tourists to go there early and come back by afternoon.

Nijhum Island

Nijhum Island:

This Island could be the next leading tourist spot after St. Martins. It’s a natural beauty of mangrove forests where you will find Dears of specific species and Monkeys. An enormous numbers of migrated birds come in this Island in winter season, enhancing the beauty of this Island. The communication is not very good but if some one wishes to bear the trouble to go to this Island. You can go to this Island either from Dhaka or Chittagong. From Chittagong first you will to go Hatia Island by Motor boat or Ship and from there you can go to Nijhum Island by local motor boat. From Dhaka you can go Tomzuddion by launch from Sadarghat launch terminal. From there you can go to Nijhum Island by local motorboat.

Accommodation is very limited for the tourists in this Island. You can take foods from local restaurants but be careful about the quality of foods. If you can take prior permission for forest department then you can stay in forest rest house in Nijhum Island. Another possibility for accommodation is in District Parishod Guest house. If you take the permission from local administration of Hatia you can also stay in the guest house of district administration.