A Glimpse of Rangamati

I am facing a busy time because of my research. Last Saturday I went for data collection related to research. I visited Rangamati which is one of the most beautiful places in my country.

The destination was approximately more than 60 km far from my location. So the first thing I had to reach Oxygen (location name) and buy bus tickets for my destination. It was the time of Ramadan and fasting was compulsory. During the time of journey and data collection, I might become sick, as I feel dizzy when I become weak. For safety, I have taken one of my best friends to go with me.

We started our journey at 7.00 a.m. Within 2 hours we reached to destination. The surrounding environment was beautiful but the road was risky it belonged to hill areas. Fortunately, we reached to destination without any kind of difficulties.

Nearby place of fish landing center people were busy unloading ice from trucks. Those ices are used to preserve fish during the time of transportation.

I entered in fish landing center to collect data from fishermen. Unfortunately, the fishermen were not available there. I also realized that I needed to go to the middle of the lake to meet with fishermen.

After so many difficulties we found the boat to reach the fisherman for face-to-face interviews. To be honest, I needed to pay a good amount of money to hire a boat but enjoying the beauty of nature from both was magical and I really enjoyed the boat journey. Throw the boat I visited several boats where fisherman was busy with their fishing activity.

I tried to collect more data from fishermen as much as I could. To collect data we needed to visit from one boat to another boat and the distance was not so close. We tried to reach every possible boat to ask some questions related to my research from fishermen.

Fortunately, most of the fishermen were very friendly and all of them gave all the required data in a smiley face. I realized that they were not earning too much but they are like happy person and their behavior towards me was pretty good.

I spent more than 1.30 hours to collect data from the fishermen. To be honest, I have never ridden on a boat for so long time. Even if it cost me some money but I was quite satisfied with the boat journey.

After collecting data from fishermen I met with one of the marketing officers of BFDC who was very much helpful to me. He was and ex-student of my department and he also tried his best to help me to provide necessary data.

Again I visited to the famous market which is known as Bonorupa market. The market was indeed huge. After collecting data from retailers from the market I visited the whole market and I have seen many new things on the market.

At the end part of the market I saw there was a floating market means people selling various kinds of fruits from both and it was really beautiful in my eyes and I had and seen that kind of market anywhere.

I was done with the market and decided to return, I noticed two people were playing chess in a place of market and it was quite interesting in my eyes. One person was reading the newspaper and two dogs were taking rest.

Finally, I returned to the bus counter. I returned home safely but I was totally exhausted because of all the work I had done without taking a single drop of water as I was fasting. It was a pleasant journey for me. It was a new experience for me.