Jaflong is a hill station and popular tourist destination in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Jaflong Sylhet

Jaflong is a union situated at Bangladesh-India border. Jaflong is a landscape beauty among gardens and hills. It is situated next to the river Peain round Hill Khashia. The Mari River originating from the great Himalayas brings tons of stone slabs with its stream. It’s a hilly area comprising of green forests. Jaflong is a hill station and popular tourist destination in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladeshb. It is located in Gowainghat Upazila of Sylhet District and situated at the border between Bangladesh and the Indian state of Meghalaya, overshadowed by subtropical mountains and rainforests.
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 Jaflong 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. Despite the loss of its former splendour due to unrestricted mining and crushing of stones, Jaflong is still a ‘must-see’ destination for tourists visiting Sylhet. Flowing from the north Khasi mountains, the river Dauki enters Bangladesh under the name ‘Piyain’, along the bank of which lies the spectacular Jaflong. About 62 km north-east from Sylhet city. Visitors can hire boats to go to the Zero Point and see the beautiful hanging bridge over the Dauki. Just across the river on the western side are the villages Sangrampunji and Nakshiapunji, which are accessible through ferries or rented boats.

Just beside Nakshiapunji is Jaflong Tea Garden which is a top tourist attraction.

On the way to Jaflong visitors usually take a recess at Tamabil, which is about 7 kilometres away from Jaflong. It is mainly a land custom and immigration check post, behind which is a war cemetery, where martyred freedom fighters

were buried in 1971, along the Bangladesh-India border. On the way to Tamabil is Jaintapur Upazilla Sadar where tourists usually stop for a while to see the ruins of an ancient royal palace. Some megalithic monuments still stand testimony to the rich past of the Khasi tribe. Not far from the Upazilla Council is the Citrus Research Centre boasting of gardens with local vegetation such as tezpata, sathkora and many other fruits.

Adding to the beauty of this research centre is a plethora of cascading waterfalls flowing from the Khasi mountains of India. Situated between Jaintapur and Tamabil is Sreepur which is a popular picnic spot. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are

without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Jaflong

Zero Point in Sylhet is a horrid example of how cruel man can be to nature and environment. Once a popular tourist destination with a river and hills and hillocks, it is now a mess of machines and man's greed. Power pumps rumbling on the sandbars in the Pyain river, hundreds of people busy around wells dug with excavators, trucks waiting on the banks, boats anchored at a distance -- all for one thing: extracting stones from the riverbed and transporting those. The place that once used to remain abuzz with nature-lovers now only sees assemblage of labourers. The illegal mechanised stone extraction is virtually destroying the beauty of the tourist attraction and this is happening under the very nose of

the administration. A section of unscrupulous businessmen, allegedly in collusion with the local administration and the ruling party men, is collecting stone from the Pyain using machines, including excavators, in complete violation of a High Court verdict. Following a public interest litigation initiated by Bangladesh. Environmental Lawyers' Association, the HC in January 2010 declared illegal stone extraction using excavators or any other machine from the beds of three Sylhet rivers Pyain, Dawki and Dhalai.

It is located 315 km away from Dhaka to Sylhet. Jaflong is 60.7 km away from Sylhet. You can take bus or CNG, auto-rickshaw,car heading towards Sylhet-Tamabil highway. At first you need to head to Sylhet from Dhaka. Three type of transportation mode is available towards Sylhet from Dhaka.

1. Greenline Paribahan