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Saturday, April 26, 2014

About Jaflong

Jaflong is a natural tourist spot in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is located in Gowainghat Upazila of Sylhet District and situated at the border between Bangladesh and the Indian state of Meghalaya
. It is just below the mountain range. Jaflong is famous for its stone collections and is home of the Khasi tribe.

Jaflong is one of the most attractive tourist spots in Sylhet division. It is about 60 km from Sylhet town and takes two hours drive to reach there. Jaflong is also a scenic spot nearby amidst tea gardens and rare beauty of rolling stones from hills. It is situated besides the river Mari in the lap of Hill Khashia.

 
Stone crushing
The land grabbers occupied government khas land and reserved forestland and extracted stone by cutting small hills polluting the environment of Jaflong. They also established crushing mills on the forestland without permission from government.


Attractions
Collection of rolling stones Colorful tribal (Khasia) life

  • Khasia Rajbari (king’s palace) Dauki & Piyain Rivers  Tea Garden Orange and jackfruit gardens Betel leaf and areca nut gardens Dauki Bazar 






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