Hundreds of people thronged different tourist spots of Chattogram city from Wednesday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of Muslims.
From Wednesday afternoon, the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr till the third day on Friday, huge crowds were seen on Patenga sea beach, at Foy’s Lake Amusement Park, Chattogram Zoo, Chattogram Shishu Park and Agrabad Jamboori Field.
Since the three-day Eid vacation merged with the Friday-Saturday weekencity dwellers and holidaymakers d, could enjoy more on their outings.At present, the refurbished Chattogram zoo was the main attraction for the city dwellers where people gathered with their children.On an area of six acres of land, the lone private zoo at the port city is located at the hilly area of Foy’s lake at south Khulshi.
Chattogram Zoo executive committee member secretary, who also serves as Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Hathazari, Ruhul Amin said that on Wednesday Chattogram zoo attracted a total of 11,500 visitors while on Thursday the number of visitors was 17,000. They enjoyed the newly decorated aviary park, kids’ zone and animals kept in the cages at the zoo.
He said that children were their main target audience. Focusing on their amusement, the zoo authority had taken many initiatives to modernise the zoo. They painted the guide wall, walkways so that once inside the zoo, kids would feel that the place was made for them.
Nurjahan Akter came to the zoo from Beparipara with her three children. She said that in the urban environment the zoo is the only way through which the children could be introduced to wildlife.Minhazul Haque, a resident of Port colony, said that once the zoo was a barren place due to bad odour that emitted from the ill-maintained cages and the overall mismanagement. As we came to know about the refurbishment job on the media, we have come with our family members and relatives to visit the zoo.Wonderful changes were introduced to the zoo and the entry fee also seemed reasonable, he added.Another biggest tourist attraction, Foy’s Lake Amusement Park is situated next to the zoo. Visitors were seen enjoying different rides at Foy’s lake, including boat riding, circus swing, bumper car, bumper boat, family roller coaster, giant Ferris wheel, dry slide, family train, paddleboat, floating water plate, pirate ship etc.
Foy’s Lake Amusement park deputy manager Marketing Bishwajit Ghosh said that on Thursday nearly 5000 city dwellers visited Foy’s Lake and the Sea World. On Thursday 2000 visitors gathered there.
People enjoyed all the rides in Foy’s Lake park at only Tk 400. They enjoyed boat ride at Sea World at Tk 600.
Salekin Chowdhury, a visitor, said that he worked at a buying house in Dhaka. During Eid vacation he came to Foy’s Lake with his friends and family to pass quality time.
Patenga sea beach witnessed similar crowd during the vacation. Since the afternoon on Eid day, city dwellers thronged the beach. Some were seen riding the speedboats and some were taking photos while others were riding the horses and were seen flying kites.
Patenga Thana officer-in-Charge Utpol Barua said that more than one lakh people visited Patenga sea beach on Thursday.
Chattogram Metropolitan police had set up three makeshift camps to ensure security of the tourists at Patenga area.
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