Astagram Haor

Astagram Haor is a massive water world all around and few island like villages amid of the water. You may find few fishing boats available. Only the island like villages would be around you, nothing else. It would be the best way to explore the Haor in the rainy season from the Ostogram. For your information, six of the Upazila of Kishoreganj hold a massive Haor all together. This Haor is further extended with the Haor(হাওড়) from Netrakona, Hobiganj, and Sunamganj district. During the rainy season you can easily move from one Haor to another without interruption.

You can fix a boat for 4000 taka to visit Ostogram, then Mithamoin, and the Itna Upazila of Kishoreganj district. It would be around 8/9 hours to reach at the final destination. Which means 8:00 at night if you start at 12 pm, noon. You can hire the boat from the Kuliar Char of Kishoreganj District.

Life in a Haor is not that much easy. It is always surrounded by the water during rainy season. Its a big problem for them and they are in a predicament with this massive water. It gives them a facility to travel easily using a boat. So during the rainy season they can travel from one place to another very easily. Even local people from there use to arrange the marriage ceremony during this particular time for the better communication.

But they can not do any cultivation during this rainy period. They only depend on the fishing and no other works. All the cultivating activities are done during the dry season(locally known as late autumn), and its only once in a year. They use to cultivate for one season and use to run their family with that little amount of grains throughout the year. But during this dry season, their main transportation is walking. No other option is available. So they are confused to decide about which season is better for them. A common proverb from the Haor region is:
It is very hard to find an ample amount of empty spaces from the villages (or should say islands?) of Haor.

Everything is tightly packed and very much congested. The lavatory, kitchen, house, and all the other stuffs are in the same place. Even the domestic animals are also living so closely with them. It looks beautiful from far, specially when you are sitting on a boat and traveling. But practically its too much dirty all around and they are accustomed to this.

The sewerage water from the lavatory is dropping at the water beside their house. They are having a bath on the same water beside the sewerage dropping zone. Even they are also cleaning their dishes and taking water for cooking from the same place. They can use the tube well water, but they somehow like the water from Haor as it is iron and arsenic free. You can enjoy their daily life works and household works from the boat easily.


Address: Mithamoin-Astagram Road, Kishoreganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh