Bashundhara City

Dhaka


Claiming to be the 12th largest mall in the world, Bashundhara City is worth visiting to experience the middle-class Bangladeshi dream. In the swish surroundings there are something like 2000 shops and restaurants, local and international brands, a multiplex cinema and bowling alley. It's a destination in itself, but the switch from rickshaw-crowded roads to inside can leave you spinning.


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Nearby Dhaka attractions

2. National Assembly Building

0.83 MILES

In 1963 the Pakistanis commissioned Louis Kahn, a world-renowned American architect, to design a regional capitol for East Pakistan. Due to the liberation…

3. DRIK

1.01 MILES

Gallery specialising in photography

4. Zia Uddyan

1.03 MILES

Park near Bangladesh's National Assembly, home to the lakeside mausoleum of Zia Rahman, former prime minister of the country who was assassinated in 1981.

5. Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts

1.07 MILES

Bangladesh's home of fine arts, this gallery was established in 200 by the Bengal Foundation, and holds regular exhibitions of art and photography as well…

7. National Museum

1.17 MILES

The excellent National Museum, sprawling over several floors, begins with the geological formation of Bangladesh, whisks you through a rundown of the…

8. Faculty of Fine Art

1.27 MILES

Hosts art exhibitions, housed inside Dhaka University's Institute of Arts and Crafts.