Hotels and motels of Kuakata, one of the country's top tourist attractions located in Patuakhali, are offering a 50 percent discount marking World Tourism Day on September 27

Kuakata is a picturesque town in the southernmost tip of Bangladesh, where you can visit breath-taking places like its panoramic sea beach that offers a full view of both sunrise and sunset over the Bay of Bengal.

Kuakata, the country’s second largest sea beach, is being turned into a tourist destination without a structured plan, kicking out the native Rakhine population in the process.

Kuakata beach has become a popular destination for tourists during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday.

Tourism business in Kuakata is expected to be booming during this Eid holiday as the most of the rooms in 130 residential hotels and motels have been booked already.

Cyclone Roanu has done so much damage to the Kuakata beach that it is difficult to even take a walk on it now.

In the months of January and February, thousands of female crabs in the mangrove forests around Patuakhali's Kuakata clamber over roots and through mud to reach the saltwater edge of the Bay of Bengal. Their mission is clear: at the seashore, the eggs they carry will hatch into larvae, to swim away as plankton, as the start of a new generation.

At least 33 people are injured as a brick-laden truck falls off a ferry into a river in Kolapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Robbers allegedly attack 25 trawlers and abducted at least 50 fishermen in the Bay in Fareboya area, about 50-kilometre south-west from Kuakata sea beach in Patuakhali.

Six fishermen suffer bullet injuries as robbers attack three fishing trawlers in the Bay in Kuakata of Patuakhali.

At least 67 fishermen are missing as five trawlers capsize in the Bay of Bengal near Kuakata in Patuakhali and five others in Barguna.

It is high time to go beyond the textbooks and throw off the bowlines to make the Eid holidays more exciting and memorable. So step out in the open, follow the sun to the greens and silver sand beaches, and catch the winds in the sails to explore, dream and discover. Bangladesh is blessed with many wonderful places attracting people to see its beauty. Here are the five most magnificent natural and archaeological beauties to visit: