How to Visit Sundarban - A brief Details

Sundarban Tour Operators in Kolkata helps you to get access from Dhaka and Khulna also. Organizing your own trip from Munsiganj-Satkhira, Mongla or Khulna is also possible (and cheaper, if you're a shrewd negotiator), but questionably worth the hassle. However, you need a permit from the Divisional Forest Office in Khulna. With permit in hand, it's possible to hire a boat from Mongla or Dhangmari to get you to Hiron Point. From Hiron Point you will have to hire a guide to take you into the park.

Day trips from Mongla are not very interesting, and probably better avoided. After negotiating the price of a boat down to something only slightly less ridiculous you'll most likely be taken to Karamjal Wildlife Center, where there are some tame deer to feed and some monkeys, crocs and snakes in cages. But surely you didn't come all this way to see a rundown zoo filled with depressed animals and raucous Bangladeshis. Boatmen seem to want no less than Rs. 200 for the trip (locals pay Rs. 50/day), and the center charges a very steep Rs. 750/day entry fee for foreigners.

From Kolkata (India), suburban trains can take you to Canning (64 km) from where launch services are available for Sundarban. Otherwise, you can avail of buses to reach Raidighi (76 km), Najat (92 km), Sonakhali (100 km) and Namkhana (105 km) from where motorboats will take you to Sundarban.