CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Sundarbans National Park, The Sundarbans, Sundarbans South Sanctuary and Sundarbans East Sanctuary. It crosses from Bangladesh into India - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world, a vast maze of tidal rivers, creeks and muddy islands where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers meet the Bay of Bengal. The western sanctuary, in the south west of Bangladesh close to the Indian border, is one of the protected cores of this immense wetland, part of the World Heritage listing shared between Bangladesh and India. It is the home of the Bengal tiger, which has adapted to life in the mangroves, swimming between islands and hunting in the tidal forest, as well as spotted deer, saltwater crocodiles, river dolphins and a remarkable variety of birds.
Read the complete Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary is where the day begins. Next is Sundarbans National Park.
Let's be straight about it from the start: nobody rides a motorcycle into the Sundarbans. The national park is a maze of tidal channels, mudbanks and mangrove islands at the bottom of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta, and the last solid tarmac gives out at the jetties around Gosaba and the villages beyond Canning. The ride is about getting to the edge of the land, parking the bike in a village yard, and stepping onto a wooden boat for the part that matters.
Read the complete Sundarbans National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sundarbans National Park comes up about 175 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Sundarbans.
No road reaches this point. The forest is crossed only by water, and any visit here means leaving the motorcycle behind and taking a boat.
Read the complete The Sundarbans write-up.
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about 308 km into the recorded legs you reach The Sundarbans. Next is Sundarbans South Sanctuary.
Down at the very bottom of Bangladesh, where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers break into countless channels before meeting the Bay of Bengal, lies the largest mangrove forest on Earth. The Sundarbans South Sanctuary is one of three protected wildlife sanctuaries in the Bangladeshi part of the forest, and the whole area is a World Heritage Site. This is a world of water and tide: creeks, rivers and islands thick with sundari trees, from which the forest may take its name, along with gewa, keora and golpata palms, all standing on breathing roots that poke up through the mud.
Read the complete Sundarbans South Sanctuary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sundarbans South Sanctuary, about halfway. Next is Sundarbans East Sanctuary.
The Sundarbans are what happens when the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna spread themselves out into the Bay of Bengal and the land simply gives up trying to be land. This is the largest mangrove forest in the world, shared between Bangladesh and India, and the part here lies in the south-west of Bangladesh, in the Khulna region, a maze of tidal channels, mud banks and islands that rise and fall with the tide. Nothing is solid for long, and there are no roads through the middle of it.
Read the complete Sundarbans East Sanctuary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sundarbans East Sanctuary sits at 625 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sundarbans South Sanctuary.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sundarbans South Sanctuary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sundarbans South Sanctuary comes up about 807 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Sundarbans.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Sundarbans write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 936 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Sundarbans. Next is back through Sundarbans National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sundarbans National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sundarbans National Park, late in the day. Next is Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 1247 km.
Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary → Sundarbans National Park is 175 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sundarbans National Park → The Sundarbans is 132 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Sundarbans → Sundarbans South Sanctuary is 129 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sundarbans South Sanctuary → Sundarbans East Sanctuary is 185 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sundarbans East Sanctuary → back through Sundarbans South Sanctuary is 185 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sundarbans South Sanctuary → back through The Sundarbans is 129 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Sundarbans → back through Sundarbans National Park is 132 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sundarbans National Park → Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary is 175 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.