Srimangal

Srimangal, Bangladesh — the country's tea capital, where manicured green tea gardens roll across low hills beside the rainforest canopy of Lawachara National Park.

Tour a working tea estate and go tasting the seven-layer tea (a Srimangal specialty, hand-poured in visible color bands), then head into Lawachara to spot hoolock gibbons — the only ape species found in Bangladesh. Indigenous Khasi and Manipuri communities in the surrounding hills welcome respectful visitors to their pineapple and betel-leaf plantations.