Private Tour
Explore Dhaka City in a Local Way !!
Overview
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Stimulate your senses and challenge your photographic eye by taking part in the awakening of one of the world’s largest cities. Dhaka is the political, trade, and cultural center of Bangladesh and provides endless opportunities for travelers interested in capturing the unique lifestyles of its inhabitants. Feel as though you are a local buyer as you navigate through crowded flower, vegetable, and meat/seafood wholesale markets. Take a rickshaw in Old Dhaka to explore markets specialized in textiles and other goods, while breaking for tea and bakarkhani. Visiting the Hindu streets, walking into beautiful star mosque and orthodox Armenian Church to experience the friendless among the religion, boat ride to see the ship rebuilding works in Burigonga River to best way end your day!
Additional Info
Specialized infant seats are available
Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Minimum age is 18 years
Infant meals not included
A minimum of 01 people per booking is required
this tour is to explore the city using local transportation like rickshaw , tuktuk, uber .
woman's need to cover the head during visiting mosque
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
• Karan Bazar whole sell vegetable market and fish market is the best part to see the morning rush hours and lots of photography activities. like Thailand and Bankok, the interesting fish market sits on the train track in the morning half . Very interesting part to explore
Morning Flower market in Dhaka is interesting, sits early in the morning and lots of colors and festivity are in market. best time to visit the market between 07:00-08:00 am in the morning
What‘s Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private tour
Professional guide
Bottled water
TripAdvisor Experiences brokerage fee
Gratuities
Lunch is not included
Air-conditioned vehicle
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Explore Dhaka City in Local Way !!
customized or extend the tour : if you want to extend the tour longer or also to accommodate anything that you want will also be possible
Duration: 8 hours: our guide will come normally 7:30 am to pick you from hotel lobby.
local bangla lunch: to experience the local food we talk to the bangla restaurant have bangla food with different types of vegetables
Old Dhaka & Local life : we start from the hotel lobby and taking you to the central Dhaka to old part of the town
tuktuk, Uber, rickshaw : local transportation is the best solution when you are living Dhaka to go more deep into the city in quickest time
Pickup included
Reviews
170 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
We have made a beautiful, well organized tour throughout Bangladesh of 4 weeks. With a great guide and driver.
Betty V,Mar 29, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Impressive journey through a special country.
Kamal was outstanding! And a great photographer!
Kristin D,Mar 2, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00If you want to truly understand Dhaka beyond the traffic and headlines, this is the tour to book. Kamal was outstanding , warm, knowledgeable, calm in the chaos, and deeply proud of his city. He didn’t just show us sights; he immersed me in the rhythm of everyday life here. We moved through markets, backstreets, riverfronts and neighbourhoods in a way that felt authentic and respectful, never staged. It was intense, eye-opening, and incredibly human, exactly what Dhaka is. Five out of five without hesitation. Kamal made the experience.
Excellent tour of Dhaka
Scott R,Feb 21, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Really enjoyed this tour of Dhaka with our excellent guide and driver. Mahadi showed us so much we would never have explored on our own, starting with a long walk through Kawran Bazar, and he shared a lot about Bangladesh's history and contemporary politics. This is very much unlike a walking tour of historical sites somewhere like Delhi - you do see the university, remains of Fort Lalbagh, and such, but it was more of a local tour of the city. Doing this on a Saturday was a nice way to avoid some traffic and crowd.
Indeed an experience like a local!
YatiD1,Feb 18, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Indeed we experience Dhaka the local way and we survived! The traffic is horrendous but what an experience! We travelled on a van, foot and boat. We couldn't get a rickshaw because of the bad traffic jam but it was okay. Our guide Jerri is excellent! Very attentive to details and has a good heart. Highly recommend this tour to anyone going to Dhaka.
Great way to explore old dhaka
Troels L,Feb 16, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Had the pleasure of having Jerry as my local tour guide. It was such a fun day and Jerry navigated all stressfullness of Dhaka with no hasle. Great English and able to answer all my questions. Would definitely go again.
A perfectly nice tour, but not up to the expectations set by 5 star reviews.
Linda E,Feb 11, 2026
- Review from Viator
3.00We were disappointed by this tour after all the great reviews we read. Partly that will be high expectations are hard to meet. Don't come to Old Dhaka thinking its sites will be on a par with Old Delhi, Lahore, Rajasthan, etc. The Mughal empires left more impressive remains other places. There's not much to see here and what there is remains poorly maintained. But we knew this wouldn't rival India or Pakistan in sites. I think the bigger disappointment was the guide we were assigned was likely not nearly as good as the ones other travellers rave about. None of our booking confirmations gave us the start time of the tour, and our guide Kamal did not leave a message at our hotel nor text us to tell us when he would pick us up. It would have been much nicer to have certainty when we checked into the hotel the night before the tour and to be ready when he arrived at 7:15AM. Kamal was very nice, but his English skills were limited. His accent was harder to understand than other Bangladeshis we talked to, and I am guessing the reason he didn't impart much information was because he didn't have the vocabulary as he often seemed to not understand what we were saying. Fortunately, now with ChatGPT, you can get all the information you want on most sites instantly when you are looking at them if you have enough data. Kamal also seemed more interested in fishing for help on immigrating to the US than telling us about Bangladesh. He told me multiple times that he was getting his second masters degree and wanted to get a visa to work in the US and also how he wanted to find an American woman to marry so he could move to the US. Kamal also continued to try to upsell us to hiring him to take us around the whole country of Bangladesh after we had told him we were just doing a weekend trip to Dhaka to see the highlights of the capital and flying out the next morning. It was also disappointing to have my husband's brand new iPhone I'd given him for his birthday pickpocketed in the first place we visited (the Kawran Bazar). We were able to track the phone for a while but the thief turned the phone off after we started calling it to hear a ringer. Kamal insisted on going to the police station promising it would only take 5-10 minutes, and we wasted over an hour of our time. It was only after the phone was stolen that he started watching out for pickpockets and pointing them out to us.
Super day tour in old Dhaka.
Martin L,Jan 15, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I got to see and experience so much of Dhaka in one day. My guide Jerry was a delightful person to have around, and he knows all the places in old Dhaka, many of which I would not have found on my own. I can definitely recommend this day tour.
Amazing Experience - Couldn't have done it any other way
Meander41660602295,Dec 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Kamal Hossain is an amazing tour guide who took care of our safety, well-being & enjoyment very well. He was very professional & readily caters to our interests along the tour. He went out of the way, above and beyond his call of duty at times. The whole tour was an eye-opening experience, especially the walk through the markets & the evening bumboat ride along the river. Our first visit to Bangladesh has been meaningful & enjoyable thanks to him.
Fantastic day tour
JasonD4205,Dec 11, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Jerry provided a fantastic day tour, he was very knowledgeable and friendly. I really enjoyed using public rickshaw's and tuktuk's rather than using a private car or bus. The traffic was horrific and it was incredibly noisy with horns sounding constantly but that's nothing that can be controlled.
Fantastic tour
emmaaP2996JE,Dec 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A Fantastic tour of Dhaka. Our guide Jerry was amazing, he was so knowledgeable about his country and all the places that we visited. He was extremely friendly and kept the tour so interesting. All the stops on the tour were great and it was fantastic to see how the local people of Dhaka live. Everyone that we met was so friendly and welcoming. An amazing fun city.
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