Elephant Road

Dhaka is a place of historical episodes where many ancient facts are hidden.  From every lane to avenue, fascinating events lie everywhere. Elephant Road, the capital’s one of the busiest roads has an interesting story behind its naming. The story starts with Peelkhana, a place where man used to keep elephant, because from there the distance of Buriganga is too little to give them a bath. But Buriganga was not suitable for the Elephant. From Peelkhana the Mughol emperor used to take elephants to Hatirpool for their bath. And the way, which was used for the elephant is called Elephant Road.
Elephant Road is situated on the north side of National Science lab. The middle point of Elephant Road is known as Bata Signal because a big Bata show room is the attraction for this part of Dhaka. There are also a huge number of other shoe shops in the area. Multiplan Center is the second biggest computer market of Dhaka city and is located in the Elephant Road. There are also a number of other computer shopping and service centers in the area. Besides computers the shops of Elephant Road have become popular as mobile phone markets as well.
From legendary writer Nazir Hossains written we came to know that, in 1800 Dhaka was covered with green but nowadays man can find here buildings, sculptures, a good number of shopping mall, restaurant and what not. Elephant Road is decorated by a number of different types of shops like restaurants, photo-shops, watch shops and fashion shops. Moreover, this road is famous for the Bangladesh brand name ceramics like Mono Ceramics, Shaeenpukur, Japan-color, Gitalli, Fops, and Cats Eye.

Elephant Road is also famous for carpets, copper show-piece, wedding products and interior decoration, cloth selling and wedding shops. All necessary products for marriage are available in the marriage market. The small food shops, tea stalls, garments shops, illegal car and rickshaw parking make Elephant Road one of the most crowded roads in Dhaka.

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