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Tourists throng Tentulia to have a glimpse of Kangchenjunga


Published : 13 Nov 2020 09:44 PM

Hundreds of tourists are once again rushing beside the river Mohananda at Tentulia under Panchgarh district to have a glimpse of the Kanchenjunga, the second-highest peak of the Himalayas mountain range. 

Due to clear sky and less air pollution during the Corona pandemic, the Kanchenjunga peak is clearly visible in naked eyes from Tentulia. 

The bright sunshine in the cloudless sky is flourishing the glory of the ice-shrouded mountain with golden in colour in the early morning, crimson red during the late afternoon and in the evening, pink at noon and white in the late morning. Since the entrance of tourists in India is still banned, the tourists of Bangladesh are thronging beside the Mohananda of Tentulia to watch the beauty of the mountain.

As a result, a huge assemblage of tourists is now being witnessed at the picnic corners, old Duk Bungalow and the tourists' spots of Panchagarh. Specially, during early morning and during the evening, the Kanchenjunga appears with all its grandeur and beauty and the number of tourists is increased manifold during that period of time. 

There is an acute crisis of accommodation in the governmental and the non-governmental rest houses and hotels and getting no room there many of the tourists are taking shelter under the trees. 

Local people informed, the peaks of Kanchenjunga are clearly visible in naked eyes usually from the first week of November to the mid-December but the sky remaining pollution-free due to Corona, the visitors could watch the mountain from early October this year. 

Not only the peaks of Kanchanjunga are clearly visible from Panchgarh but also some small hills of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Nepal are also visible from there. 

Afarzuddin came with family members in a microbus from Naogaon to watch the beauty of Kanchenjunga. He said he has no idea that he would be able to view the peak of the Himalayan so clearly from so far a place. 

Nipun came to Tentulia with 16 of her friends from Dinajpur to have a look at the Kanchenjunga. They intended to stay at the rest house but getting no room there they were returning to Dinajpur.  'It is simply amazing and its beauty is beyond description', she comments after watching the peak. 

Russel Shah, Officer-in-charge of Tentulia Meteorological Office said the Kanchenjunga peak is clearly visible today due to a clear, cloud-free sky. 

Sohag Saha, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Tentulia informed, there is scarcity of rooms at the rest houses and in hotels that is why many tourists are not getting rooms to stay. He, however, emphasised on Community Tourism, a system where the tourists are invited to live at the spare rooms of the local residents in exchange for money.