
Time  has always been a factor during making a bicycle trip as we all have  work and classes to attend to. The recent events in the country were not  encouraging enough for outdoor trips. Despite that the joy of riding  could not resist us! The seven-member team of adventure community --  Kewkradong.com -- set off for Nilphamari to ride along the famous river  Teesta.
Riding bicycles in Dhaka is not  always pleasant, actually it's kind of difficult because of maniac  motor vehicle drivers. That's why it's hard to find riding mates here.  We, a small group of youth known as Kewkradong.com, try locate places  where we can paddle along. Despite the hassles of transferring cycles  from Dhaka to another region, its full of fun to ride in rural or  suburban areas in Bangladesh!
Nilphamiri is only 6 hours'  drive from Dhaka. We had to prop our bikes on bus roof at Gabtoli  terminal. And that's a real trouble because our “Chinese” bikes are too  rickety to travel on bus top. They need some mandatory fixing before and  after every ride. 
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It was dawn when we started off from the Nilphamari District  Circuit House but like many previous occasions we found that one bike  has a flat tire. 
We put the suburb behind and  followed a paved road by a canal fed from the Teesta barrage to irrigate  the farmland. This road also acts as a dam and so no heavy vehicles are  allowed to ply it. We felt relieved and started riding in a flock. 
Light spring breeze from the  south flowed over the canals and green fields. We sung and rode, we  parked by the canal to dip our feet in the gentle cold water. No rush.  Then we started leisurely paddle away again. Trees planted along the dam  cast shades on us. It was so refreshing that we stopped counting the  milestones to our destination.

This  place is named “Jaldhaka” which means a place covered by water. It is  said that long ago this whole area was flooded by Teesta due a  devastating earthquake. Teesta was a much wider river then but now it  has lost its vigor. We rarely found any tea stalls in this thinly  populated area. The shops beside the road were empty except for a few  curious faces eyeing us as we passed by. We could see the Teesra barrage  in the distance. We found a picnic spot just beside the rest house of  the Water Development Board, where we decided to pitch our tents for the  night. 
The northern part of Teesta is  really vast, appearing like an ocean of white sand. A few canals cut  through the sand. We imagined how vast Teesta might have been looking in  rainy season when the shoals go under water.
Night in the tent is another fun. We used the grassy field of the rest house as our camping ground.
The next morning we stared very  early en route to Saidpur. It was a fairly good road but after a couple  of hours of riding we had to follow through a muddy road. It was even  smoother than the paved one 
We had to cross a very small  part of the national high way after riding Kishorgong Taragong and using  the by pass to access Saidpur town. So in a way almost whole riding -  the path was just safe to following the path again. We caught the bus in  the same night to reach Dhaka by the next morning!!