St. Martin's island

St. Martin’s island is a small in the northeastern part of the Bangladesh. It is about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox’s bazar –Teknaf. It is about 8km west of the northwest coast of Myanmar. St. Martin is a tropical cliché and the only coral island in Bangladesh. The local name of the island is “Narical Gingira”, that means ‘Coconut island’ in Bangladesh.

It is a clean and peaceful island in Bangla.

Most of the island’s 7500 inhabitants live primarily from fishing. Every year October and April fisherman from neighboring areas bring their catch to the island’s temporary wholesale market. The other staple crops are rice and coconut. Being very commen in the island, algae is collected, then dries and exported to Myanmar. Most things are concentrated around the far north of the island and the south are mainly farmland and makeshift huts. There is no electricity on the island.

 

St. Martin’s island is a excellent tourist spot. Recently, five shipping liners run daily trips to the island. Tourists are getting to St. Martins island is a three step process. First you’ll need to fly or bus it down to Cox’s bazar, and then catch a bus to Teknaf, which is right on the very southern tip of Bangladesh, sandwiched up against Myanmar. Teknaf ferries run daily and take around 3 hours. The island is 510km distance from Dhaka. The island surrounding coral reef and the island extension named is Chera Dwip. A small bush is there, whice is the only green part of this island.

Sunrise on the east side of the island and after a lazy day head over to the west side for sunset. Sunset point is a rocky peninsula on the northwest corner of the island near St. Martin’s resort, whice exists only at low tide a nice spot if sunset and low tide coincide.