Telepara/Satcheri Forest Reserve

About 60km south-west from Srimangal on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway is the small Telepara/Satcheri Forest Reserve. Similar to the Lowacherra Forest Reserve, this reserve provides a good habitat for quite a number of forest birds and small animals. There is a track heading into the forest from the main road, which eventually leads to a sandy ravine and an old, grown-over logging road/path. Follow this path and you'll come to a tea plantation at the edge of the forest and will be able to loop back (left) across the ravine and follow the continuation of the path through the forest. Though this 'logging' path is the best one, there are other ill-defined tracks throughout the forest.

Getting There & Away The forest is on the south side of the main road, about 1km east of the Satcheri bus stop/Telepara Tea Estate, just where the highway takes a sharp left (hairpin) bend. You could get the driver of the Dhaka-Sylhet bus to drop you here if you don't mind missing the early hours when bird-watching is best. Alternatively, you could get a bus from Srimangal to Telepara, which is well marked, and walk to the trailhead a kilometre away. To return to Srimangal you could try flagging one of the Dhaka-Sylhet buses, which tend to be full, or walk back to Telepara and catch one there.