Our first trip to Bangladesh and hopefully not our last. We booked onto the Raas Festival Tour -which was a small group tour of 16 days. It included Dhaka, the Ganges delta, the Sundarbans before heading up to Sreemangal for the festival itself and a tour of the tea plantations etc. We then returned for a last few days in and around Dhaka.

It was an absolutely brilliant tour - not just the content and the places we visited and experiences we had, but also the organisation which was spot on.

Particular highlights were the pre-festival practices we were fortunate to see in peoples homes, the hospitality of the people we met, the crew on our boat in the Sundarbans and what we saw there, however I have to say our guide Opu made the whole thing. Opu was absolutely brilliant, nothing was too much trouble, he was very accommodating and knowledgeable and an all in nice guy.

I would thoroughly recommend Nijhoom Tours.

We have travelled to well over a hundred countries and this company in Bangladesh are amazing.

From the moment we first made contact to all on going communication Hasan was professional, diligent and a pleasure to deal with.

Our tour with them to the Sundarbans was an absolutely mind blowing experience. The boat the company use to venture deep into the Mangroves is basic but clean, tidy and the food is amazing. The safaris deep into the forest are interesting with lots of animals to see. Our final tour of a village struggling with rising sea levels was an interesting yet heart breaking experience. Our guide Faisal was amazing and his knowledge and passion for the birds was so good.

We cannot rate this company high enough for both quality of service and value for money.

The trip to Bangladesh that Nijhoom Tours arranged for us was amazing. We went on the two week Raas Festival tour. Of course the festival itself was an absolute highlight. We went to both a rehearsal day and the actual day of this important Hindu festival. The dancing and costumes were stunning and the way we were made to feel welcome was terrific. Our wonderful guide Opu had arranged for front row seats at the festival and at the rehearsal we were the only people there so it was very intimate and special.

The tour also included fascinating days in Dhaka (a manic, energising city), to the old capital with its street of old merchant houses, Unesco sites with very different mosques and cultural museums. We also spent time observing life in the Ganges Delta, visiting tribal villages and walking through the beautiful tea plantations of North East Bangladesh. We were always made to feel so welcome by local people, Bangladesh is definitely one of the friendliest countries in the world.

Another highlight was our three day trip to the Sundarbans where we saw wonderful birds and animals and came very close to seeing a Tiger. Just drifting down the small channels in the peace and silence of the area was magical.

The whole tour was very well arranged and our guide Opu was great. I thoroughly recommend Nijhoom Tours.