Assalamoailaikum everyone. Hope you all are doing well. I am fine Alhamdulillah. Today I will share my story of visiting my aunt’s house 🏠 situated in a beautiful village in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
There is a proverb in the village that all the villages in Bangladesh are as beautiful as the picture. In that case, my aunt’s village is as beautiful as the picture. If you see the beautiful pictures you will understand whether I am telling the truth or not.
My aunt’s 🏠
Winter is starting in Bangladesh now and it is getting colder and colder. The most interesting thing about the village is that after sunrise in the morning, the place is covered with fog. Everything looks awesome in the early morning.
My aunt have their ponds and they cultivate fish in those ponds and the fun of eating fresh fish from the village ponds is different. And also their pond has a beautiful view.
There is a pond next to the road, where the water lilies are blooming. The whole pond is full of flowers blooming. In the morning, the whole water lily was blooming.
The aunts raised a lot of ducks and chickens, including chickens and turkeys, and I uploaded a picture of a huge turkey. You can see how giant turkey will be slaughtered for us. I like turkey very much, so Auntie will bless it for all of us and we will cook and eat it. It will be very fun.
While staying there, I woke up early and walked along the village road for a long time in the fog. I was obsessed with the fog and took pictures of the surrounding. I wanted to joy the time so much I wanted to do it through pictures. Then another thing is that aunts cultivate their own vegetables. I like it very much.
They also have some flower trees and the whole view of the house was increased because of the flowers.
Assalamu Alaikum, everyone, hope you all are fine. I am also fine, Alhamdulillah. There was a gap for a long time, in the middle, and I am coming to you today with my new story. So the story I will make you hear is the story of my relaxation tour of 7th October to 10th October.
Even after being under house arrest for Covid-19 a long time, we felt the need to make life a little relaxing. So me with my family, we plan to go to Cox’s Bazar for our tour.
However, we went to Cox’s Bazaar which is the longest sea beach in the world owned by Bangladesh. We went there. It is a great place to visit. We Bangladeshis are very proud to have it. I have been there before but I was so excited because it is my first time coming here after my marriage with my family. I had been planning to go to Cox’s Bazar for a long time but it didn’t happen. And finally, it happened Alhamdulillah.
Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh
So we started the journey on the night of the 7th and the bus leaves at eleven o’clock at night so that we can reach it between 8:00 am and 7:00 am. Our night journey. We slept for a while and spent the rest of the time talking.
I like the journey of the bus a lot because I can spend the whole time looking at the view from both sides of the road. It was a wonderful morning. We enjoyed it very much. For the whole 1/2 hours in the morning, we reached Cox’s Bazar around 8 o’clock. We got off the bus and walked a short distance to reach our hotel.
This was our hotel💕
After checking in at the hotel we first went to our room was Mountain View but the funny thing is that not only Mountain View 🌄 we got to see the sea 🌅 as well which became a bonus point for us. and I got so happy that I could see both the mountains and the sea were so beautiful together in our room that I forgot the tiredness of my whole night journey and I felt so confident that I will have a great time inshaAllah.
Our room view 🌄 Our room view 🌅
Also there was big window on the Corridor of our floor. The window has outstanding sea view!! I spent quality times just standing there 🤩
View from the corridor window!!
So after resting at the hotel for a while we took a shower and went to have breakfast which was our buffet breakfast at the hotel we found fifty-plus items and they seemed like very mouthwatering and tasty. It felt like we would eat it all so we sat down but the funny thing is we couldn’t eat much. But we ate with a full stomach.
At eleven o’clock in the morning, I go to the pool to have fun. My husband and I have fun with our baby. Bathing in the pool we spent about an hour and had such a good time. My 2-year-old daughter had so much fun and she swam a little and didn’t want to get up from the pool, it was her first bath in the pool and she liked the water so that we were so excited to see her had a good time. We had a lot of fun and the weather was very nice and the weather temperature all around the place was very good Alhamdulillah.
This was our pool view
At four or five in the afternoon, we left the hotel and went to the beach to watch the sunset. We took a short walk to watch the sunset. We looked around the shops in the surrounding area. There were many of them. We bought a big coconut. There was so much water inside it that it filled our all three stomach, 😄 And the water was also very sweet. the three of us walked for a long time on the beach.
Noon at beach! Sunset at the beach!
My daughter was a little frightened because of the roaring sea 🌊. She was scared because it is almost dark as the sun sets off. But we had a good time soaking our feet in the seawater for a while and hearing the roar of the sea. Then we didn’t stay for longer within 8 pm we returned to our hotel.
The next day’s journey started. We woke up in the morning of our second day in Cox’s Bazar. We had our breakfast and decided to go to Inani beach about 20 km away from our hotel in Cox’s Bazar.
We started our journey around 9 am. We started our journey for Inani beach. We left the hotel and walked a little. We took a CNG. We started our journey through the road which is called cox’s Bazar Marine Drive, the most beautiful road in Bangladesh and the biggest part of its beauty is that it has a view of the sea on one side and the mountains on the other side. From CNG I couldn’t see both sides I watched the seaside and I took video and photos through the whole road. It was a wonderful sight.
From CNGMarine drive roadMarine drive road
We reached Inani beach around ten o’clock in the morning. Because of the distance from the city Cox’s Bazar, the number of tourists was a little less here It was a sunny day and we played with our feet wet in the seawater for a long time. My daughter also had much fun playing. The beach was beautiful indeed.
Inani beach Inani beach Inani beachInany beach, Himchori
On my way back from Inani Beach, as I am a marine science student I went to visit our institution which is named Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute(BORI) of oceanography in Cox’s Bazar.
My institutionBORI
We came back to our hotel at around 3 pm. Today in the evening we scheduled our time in the rooftop restaurant of our hotel. The rooftop restaurant where you can have a live barbecue party as well as seafood with music. So we went there around 7 pm and the scenario was awesome at night. It was on the 9th floor and its lighting was arranged with a push of light and dark. It was not very exposures. They set up the restaurant this way. That is why my daughter was a little uncomfortable and scared for the dark environment so we spent a few times there but couldn’t have our food there 😔
The rooftop restaurant!Night view in Cox’s Bazar
At Cox’s Bazar here starts our last day so we planned to get up early in the morning to see the beach in the morning. To explore how it feels to be near the sea in the morning so early in the morning. So as planned after breakfast, we went to the beach to enjoy the morning and morning here is less pressure on tourists. We had a good time there. We take a lot of pictures and videos.
On the day we arrived at in Cox’s Bazar, we have decided that we will go by air on the way back. So we booked plane tickets. Our flight was at 1.35 pm. We checked out our hotel at noon and said goodbye to one of the most beautiful places in our country. We had a great family time and enjoyed a lot. And the plane journey was also very exciting and fantastic.
Colour! To me, It’s not just a small word of two letters …. Colour since childhood! I mean whatever the colour, it was my very favourite. So when I was in school, I understood that colour means the colour pencil and I loved coloured pencil very much! I often thought that how beautiful is the colour pencil! All black and white pictures can be coloured in an instant …. I would like to colour all the white pictures of the textbooks myself, and I would be fascinated to draw with them. In fact, I used to draw very bad pictures, so I used to paint the pictures drawn in the book … Of course, if I drew good pictures, I would have become a painter by now. To me, the meaning of colour, language, whatever I say, was then limited to colour pencils and the classification of colour was limited to beniasahkala. Then as I got older I discovered another wonderful meaning of colour… which was nature !! The colour of which sticks to every point! The colour that gave the feeling of happiness … that colour! I feel like writing the first poem … I keep looking for the rhythm in each colour. I have written many poems after seeing the blue colour of the sky and it is still written, everyone writes. How colourful is the nature of this planet! How many thousands of colours are there can be felt in reading the poems of famous or unknown poets or in some extraordinary paintings painted by artists … So I was completely engrossed in the colours of this nature as a teenager. Then as I got older, my definition of colour seemed incomplete …. Little by little, I learned to understand that I am fascinated by colour! The special part of it was unknown to me … I never found ‘life’ in the middle of colour….. Ever since I started recognizing the meaning of survival I have been looking for another colour..! The colour of life! As a result, I found a new classification of colours beyond Beniasahkala – the colour of happiness, the colour of suffering, the colour of relationships, the colour of love, the colour of hate …After so many things, now I can see and touch the colours of life …. Now I know, the colour of life! The truth about it !! “No life on earth is black or white, everyone has a lot of coloured pencils.” But of life, some may not know this truth, some may know and hide it again. There are some who do not want to paint themselves or wait for someone else to paint them. Since no one in the world has brought for light-years so as long as one survives, one should colour one’s life with the blue colour of the sky in the palm of one’s hand or the colour of love in one’s heart or colour the life of others ….
A long time ago, a forest flower blossomed in a forest, her parents named their dear daughter Nava with love. Nova means the sky which has no limits. Like the name, she created her own world which was surrounded by endless dreams.
One day the parents heard her the story of a new fancy world. They brought a new dream butterfly with great enthusiasm. Nova extended her hand towards the dream with some surprise and emotion.
But alas! Where is that butterfly !! There were only lots of terrible spiders! Eventually, The helpless Nava imprisoned in that spider web …
One winter morning in 2017, I was on a sea voyage, while waiting for my ship I was ssitting on a bamboo bench . Suddenly I saw him walking, I didn’t understand at first, I was surprised to think that the old man is so short !! Later I saw he was hunched over. I’ve never seen any hunchbacked walking so close before. I was staring at him as he walked away and I felt like a man carrying all the burdens of life on his back …
Well friends, you can call me an anthophile!! a person who loves and appreciate flowers very much. I remember being excited every time seeing flowers from my childhood…
here some quotes of flowers with my captured flowers♥♥
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John LennonMinds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” – Stephen Richards“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” – Jim Carrey“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” – Joseph Joubert“Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.” – Unknown“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan“Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” – Miranda KerrLove is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” – Buddha“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi“Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”– E.V.“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”– Luther Burbank“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.”– Bryant McGill“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”– Shannon Mullen“Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.”– Unknown“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.”– Dr. SunWolf“All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”– Indian Proverb“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”– Honore de Balzac“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”– Ralph Waldo Emmerson“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”– Henri Matisse“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it justs blooms.”– Matshona Dhliwayo“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” – Clare Ansberry
Every year during Eid-ul-Adha I and my family visit my in-law house, which is situated in a village in Bangladesh.
Almost every house here in my village is a tin shaded building 🏠. My relative’s house is also like ours.
We have our own family masjid, which is the best part of our household. Every man in the whole household goes there for prayer even children too.
Women and man in the household have their own separate ponds too. As we are a conservative respected family of the village.
Basically, the profession of most of the people in our village is agriculture and fishing. We grow various crops and vegetables. Even we have our own agriculture field, fish project ponds, and vegetable garden.
We have almost every local fruit tree in our house, like mango, guava, lemon, jackfruit, Amla, also some vegetables 🍀.
You know, “God made the village and man made the town”, this phrase is very popular in western countries. But apart from other countries’ villages in Bangladesh, are different. Here our village life is entirely related to nature. The soft green of nature, the shade of serenity, the gentle breeze, the croaking dawn or the sound of rain, even the rows of green trees, green crop fields, tin made houses, fishing in the ponds, and lakes everything are amazingly beautiful.
I love nature and want to write about it, but I don’t know if I have enough words so I speculated, a picture can possess a perfect expression of the awesomeness of nature.
Most of us must have heard about the saying that, “Beauty lies in the eyes of Beholder”
and as a nature lover, I happened to find beauty everywhere, as for example even in the tiny flower on my yard or a single drop of rain, or even just a bird flying in the sky. I have always get wondered by the colors of flowers, the sparkle of the sunny sky, the green leaves of trees, and the blue wave of the ocean. And I think a perfect capture can describe nature more beautifully.
From childhood, being around nature gives me the most pleasure. I always have an appetite for exploring the mystery of mother nature. That’s why I started writing poems that consist mostly of natural terms. I also have started to read all the poems about nature and some of my favorite lines are.
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
By – William Wordsworth
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay.
By- Robert Frost
God, when you chiseled a raindrop, How did you think of a stem, Bearing a lovely satin leaf To hold the tiny gem? How did you know a million drops Would deck the morning’s hem?
By- Angela Morgan
I believe that nature has power, the power to heal. It can heal the wounded mind and the hurt soul. When I woke up early morning and witness the sunrise with the chirping birds and trust me that’s the true healing for any upset mind. The morning breeze will clear your thoughts and free you from all the worries of your life. You will be able to pass the day with positive energy and enthusiasm.
And nature is life or I could say nature is full of lives. Anybody who cherishes the living will be able to feel the bliss in his/her life. Even I have experienced it on my own. A flying butterfly has the power to make your mood and make you feel that life is beautiful and exciting.
Nature has always been my greatest inspiration to my poetry, and photography. I intend to click every moment of nature and to get lost to its serenity. And being a photographer I can say that nature is the best subject that anybody can possibly have.
Farjana Nishita 