Hatirjheel Lake :
Hatirjheel (Bengali: হাতিরঝিল Lake of Elephant) is a lakefront in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before 2009, It was a shallow water slum area that has been transformed into a recreation area with a lot of beautification work and embankment protection road works as well as an alternate way to ease traffic congestion. Lot of people used to come here to visit & spend some time with friends & family here specifically on holidays in cold calm fresh air & water Green environment. Bus and water taxi services are available for transport within the area. At night, lights of different hues illuminate the entire Hatirjheel, especially on the bridges. The area has been decorated with flowering shrubs and trees. Numerous tourists and pedestrians visit the site every evening to enjoy the reflection of light. There are restaurants and venues for small-scale family picnics. Boat rides are also available for both recreational purposes and transportation. The area has an amphitheatre with a capacity to accommodate 2,000 visitors. There is a 120-metre long colourful musical fountain with a time-controlled sound wave and musical tracks, making it a tri-dimensional structure.
Thus It is now a popular recreational spot for residents of Dhaka.
The old lake was reconstructed with increase of depths,side protection,
Embankment interconnecting side roads, beautiful modern architectural bridges, plantations ,landscaping, cleaning lake water etc
It was constructed under the Bangladesh Army coordinating with Rajuk and inaugurated in 2013.
It is known from history that the elephants of Dhaka's Pilkhana Palton ( Area for army elephant Platoon) in the 17th & 18th century used to take baths in the Shallow water channel of this area.– hence this water area named Hatirjheel. It is also learnt from history that the Bhawal Raja used to keep his tamed elephants at Pilkhana palton. The elephants were taken to the Hatirjheel shallow water area through the Elephant Road and Hatirpool for regular bathing.
Hatirjheel is located at the centre of the capital city, Dhaka. The area stretches from south Sonargaon Hotel to Rampura, Gulshan-Badda in the north. The place is surrounded by Tejgaon, Gulshan, Badda, Rampura, Banasree and Moghbazar, and New roads were constructed with the beautification of Hatirjheel to make it much easier for the people moving to these areas.
It has an area of about 300 acres while some 8.80 kilometre service road and some 8.80 kilometre expressway have been constructed under the project. The entire area of Hatirjheel is designed with about four main and four minor bridges, several overpasses, footbridges, footpaths, walkway, one children's park, and viewing decks. There are sitting arrangements for pedestrians by the riverside. During the dry season, the Hatirjheel lake can hold approximately 3 billion litres of water, and during the rainy season about 4.8 billion litres of water, making it the largest body of water reservoir in Dhaka city.
We could not take good video pictures from our running car as police did not allow any car to stop on the roadside. But we enjoyed the water taxi journey and took a lot of video’s surrounding . The food at the restaurant was good. The sky was cloudy and the pictures were not clear & bright. We are asking for an apology to the viewers for bad pictures.
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