Photo Tour Bangla

Corak Puja Cultural Photography Tour

Tour Duration

7 Days

Tour Type

Weekly Tour

Pick & Drop

Yes

Group Size

Up To 10

Corak Puja (also known as Chorak Puja) is one of the most intense and visually powerful folk religious rituals of rural Bengal, observed by Hindu communities before the Bengali New Year. Rooted in fertility worship, protection, and vows to deities like Shiva and Dharma Thakur, Corak Puja involves acts of extreme devotion—ritual fasting, body suspension, fire walking, and public processions.

Led by Istiyak Ahamed Srabon, an experienced professional tour guide in Dhaka, the tour takes you beyond usual landmarks. From hidden alleys to iconic sites, every stop is carefully curated to offer the best opportunities for photography, cultural exploration, and storytelling. With Photo Tour Bangla, your day is crafted to combine learning, adventure, and authentic experiences.

Day 1 – Dhaka: Market, Movement & Marginal Lives

Document Dhaka’s food supply chain and constant human movement. Karwan Bazar reveals intense scenes of labour and trade, while nearby railway tracks and informal settlements expose survival on the margins. Kamalapur Railway Station captures waiting, motion, departure, and everyday human stories.

Day 2 – Buriganga River: Port & Shipyard Life

Explore Dhaka’s historic river port and cross the Buriganga to access open-air shipyards, where vessels are built, repaired, dismantled, and painted entirely by hand—one of the most visually intense labour environments in Bangladesh.

Day 3 – Dhaka → Sreemangal: Tea Gardens & Indigenous Communities

Travel to Sreemangal, the Tea Capital of Bangladesh. Photograph rolling tea gardens, tea pluckers at work, and daily life in worker colonies. Visit indigenous village areas where traditional lifestyles, crafts, and community bonds remain strong.

Day 4 – Corak Puja: Indigenous Rituals & Extreme Devotion (Core Day)

Corak Puja is performed as a vow-based ritual seeking protection, fertility, healing, and spiritual fulfilment. Devotees participate in processions, fasting, body suspension rituals, symbolic acts of endurance, and offerings to deities.

Experience Includes:

  • Morning ritual preparations
  • Community prayers and offerings
  • Corak Puja processions and performances
  • Deep immersion in village festival life

Day 5 – Rural Bengal → Dhaka | Brick Kilns

Return to Dhaka and document traditional brick kilns, capturing clay preparation, moulding, drying, firing, and manual transportation—an essential yet physically demanding industry that reflects rural-to-urban labour migration.

Day 6 – Coal Yards & Plastic Recycling

Locations: Coal loading & unloading zones • Plastic recycling factories

Document Bangladesh’s informal industrial backbone, from coal yards supplying energy to recycling units where plastic waste is sorted, washed, melted, and reused—highlighting environmental and labour narratives.

Day 7 – Fabric Drying Fields & Urban Chaos

Photograph vibrant fabric drying fields where dyed textiles stretch across open spaces, creating strong patterns and colour stories. Conclude the tour with Dhaka’s iconic traffic chaos—a final visual metaphor for density, motion, and survival.

  • Witness Corak (Chorak) Puja rituals and extreme devotional acts
  • Full-day access to ritual preparation, processions, and village ceremonies
  • Rare documentation of folk religious practices rooted in rural Bengal
  • Tea gardens and tea-worker narratives in Sreemangal
  • Indigenous village life and agrarian communities
  • Urban river life, shipyards, and labour culture
  • Brick kilns, coal yards, and recycling industries
  • Textile-drying fields and Dhaka’s urban chaos
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  • Hotel accommodation
  • Buffet breakfast & lunch
  • All transportation (AC private car, rickshaw, CNG, boats, ferries)
  • Photography guide & coordination
  • Local transport fees
  • Airport pickup & drop-off
  • Special welcome gift
  • Full local logistics & coordination
  • Personal expenses & shopping
  • Tips to workers or subjects
  • Dinner (optional, can be arranged)
  • Any cost not mentioned in the inclusion list

Why Book With Us?

Photography Tours & Workshops in Bangladesh

Istiyak Ahamed Srabon

Photographer | Visual Storyteller | Tour Guide

Istiyak Ahamed Srabon is a Bangladeshi photographer, visual storyteller, and photography tour guide who has been passionately documenting the soul of his country through powerful imagery and immersive travel experiences. As the founder of Photo Tour Bangla, he curates exclusive photography journeys for international photographers, filmmakers, and researchers, offering deep access to Bangladesh’s hidden stories — from shipbreaking yards and brick kilns to vibrant street life, rural traditions, and recycling industries.