Atghar-Kuriana Floating Guava Market

📖 About this place

Atghar-Kuriana is Swarupkathi's best-known floating market, where guavas are traded from boat to boat on the canal. Merchants buy from boats while orchards and homes line the banks. The market is liveliest at dawn. Hiring a boat to move through it is the main experience.

🚌 How to go

From Pirojpur town a bus to Swarupkathi takes 45–60 minutes for BDT 50–120. Then a van or auto to the market, with boat hire at BDT 200–500.

🏨 Where to stay

Hotels in Pirojpur or Swarupkathi cost BDT 800–2,500.

🍽️ Food

Try fresh guava, hog plum pickle and local hilsa.

📍 Nearby attractions

Shankarpasha Shahi Mosque, Bhimruli market

🛡️ Safety tips

Boats rock, so wear a life jacket and hold cameras and phones carefully.

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