Kuakata: The Daughter of the Sea
On Bangladesh's southern coast, Kuakata is one of the few beaches in the world where the sun both rises and sets over the same sea. Behind its 18 kilometres of sand stands an older story — Rakhine settlers who crossed from Arakan in 1784, dug the wells that named the place, and built its Buddhist temples — and a modern one, of tourism growth on a shoreline being steadily cut away by erosion.
