Rajshahi, Bangladesh🇧🇩 The Most Livable City in South Asia? (4K HDR)

Rajshahi, Bangladesh🇧🇩 The Most Livable City in South Asia? (4K HDR)

Welcome to this video, featuring CC subtitles or auto-translation to enhance your experience! Welcome to Rajshahi (রাজশাহী), a calm riverside city in northwestern Bangladesh. Known for its mango orchards and universities, the city feels more laid-back than Dhaka or Chattogram. Wide streets, rickshaws, and old brick buildings show a mix of colonial history and everyday Bangladeshi life. As we walk, think of Rajshahi as a “capital of the northwest,” balancing education, trade, and slow river sunsets. Shaheb Bazar (সাহেব বাজার) is the busy commercial heart of Rajshahi. Clothing shops, fruit sellers, and street-food stalls all squeeze into these narrow streets. You’ll hear bicycle bells, rickshaw horns, and sellers calling out prices every few seconds. For locals, this is where you buy almost everything—from school uniforms to mangoes in peak season. Rajshahi College (রাজশাহী কলেজ) is one of the oldest higher-education campuses in Bangladesh. Founded in the 19th century, it trained generations of teachers, civil servants, and writers. The leafy grounds and old red-brick buildings give it a classic South Asian college atmosphere. Walking past students here, you really feel how education helps shape Rajshahi’s relaxed, intellectual vibe. T-Badh (টি-বাঁধ) is a long riverside embankment along the Padma River (পদ্মা নদী). In the afternoon, families, couples, and friends come here to sit, talk, and watch the water flow past. Tea stalls and snack carts line the edge, turning the flood barrier into a giant open-air living room. It’s one of the best places to feel everyday Rajshahi life, especially at sunset when the sky turns orange. Puthia Rajbari (পুঠিয়া রাজবাড়ি) once served as the palace complex of a local Hindu zamindar. The ornate gateways and courtyards show how landowning families lived during the late Mughal and British periods. Brick walls decorated with arches and balconies overlook ponds where rituals and festivals took place. Today, it feels like a quiet time capsule, with village life continuing right outside the palace grounds. The Large Shiva Temple (বড় শিব মন্দির) in Puthia is famous for its tall tower and detailed carvings. Its shikhara-style spire rises above the village, covered in terracotta panels showing Hindu myths. Devotees still come to light incense and ring bells, filling the courtyard with sound and color. Standing here, you see how Hindu temple art and rural Bangladeshi life blend into one landscape. Sompur Mahavihara (সোমপুর মহাবিহার) is one of South Asia’s most important ancient Buddhist monasteries. Built over a thousand years ago, it once hosted monks and scholars from across the region. The huge square plan, central shrine, and surrounding monks’ cells show a complete Buddhist campus in ruins. Walking over these brick foundations, you’re literally tracing the footprints of a global learning center from the medieval age.

Rajshahi (রাজশাহী), set along the Padma River in northwestern Bangladesh, is a calm university and silk-producing city known for mango orchards, leafy boulevards, and a slower rhythm far from Dhaka’s intensity. It’s the cultural gateway to some of the region’s most remarkable historical sites.

Just east lies Puthia (পুঠিয়া), home to one of Bangladesh’s finest temple and palace complexes. The Puthia Rajbari (পুঠিয়া রাজবাড়ি) and its surrounding temples — including the ornate Govinda Temple and Shiva Temple — rise above quiet village ponds, their terracotta carvings and brick shikharas reflecting the artistic peak of late Bengal Hindu architecture.

A bit farther north, near the town of Naogaon, stands Sompur Mahavihara (সমপূর্ণ মহাবিহার / পাহাড়পুর) — one of the greatest Buddhist monasteries of the ancient Pala Empire and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its vast square courtyard, ruined cells, and monumental central shrine evoke the scale of a once-thriving monastic university that connected Bengal with the wider Buddhist world.

Together, Rajshahi, Puthia, and Sompur Mahavihara form a journey through Bangladesh’s layered heritage — Hindu palaces, Buddhist learning centers, and riverside city life, all within a few hours’ travel.

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2025/12/05

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🎬Itinerary
00:00 Rajshahi（রাজশাহী / راجشاهي）
06:11 Shaheb Bazar（সাহেব বাজার / بازار صاحب）
22:41 Rajshahi College（রাজশাহী কলেজ / كلية راجشاهي）
29:45 T-Badh（টি-বাঁধ / تي-باد）
37:37 Puthia Rajbari（পুঠিয়া রাজবাড়ি / قصر بوثيا الملكي）
56:46 Large Shiva Temple（বড় শিব মন্দির / معبد شيفا الكبير）
1:00:49 Sompur Mahavihara（সোমপুর মহাবিহার / مهافيهارا سومبور）

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