Activities of BRACU Adventure Club
Sheri Jahan Chowdhury
With the vision Winner of All Barriers and the mission to provide a platform through which students can participate in adventure travelling and promote adventure tourism in Bangladesh as well as throughout the world, BRAC University Adventure Club (BUAC) officially started its journey in November 10, 2010. The objective of the club is mainly to promote adventure based tourism such as trekking, cycling, rock climbing, swimming, surfing and many other activities related to adventure tourism. Understanding inner potential, increasing morale and building a better character are amongst the goals of BUAC.
In the span of about three and half years the club has organised quite a spectacular number of both outdoor and indoor activities to give a complete new level of taste of adventure tourism to its members. Starting from its first official tour to Boga Lake in January of 2011, the members have experienced adventure in various places of the country like Shaatchhori, Chingri Jhorna, Tajingdong, Keokradong, HumHum Falls, Nijhum Dwip and Coxs Bazar. Among the thrilling tours, the summit of Keokradong in January 2014, this occurred after a full four days hike from Boga Lake to Pukurpara and then to the 3rd highest mountain of Bangladesh with a huge team of 27 people is worth mentioning.
The clubs expeditions are not just limited within the countrys border. Some of the mentionable international tours are: Journey to Tiger Nest of Mountain, visit to Japan, India and Malaysia tour by the senior members of the club. The basic objective of the tours is to gain and spread knowledge about different countrys tourism possibilities and cultural exchange.
Apart from organising adventure tours, BRACU Adventure Club promotes adventure tourism in a number of ways. The club has its own magazine Adventure Tourism published on yearly basis. Various seminars namely Tourism-A Pathway to Development, Awareness - Glacier Melting, Climate Change and Antarctica Experience Sharing and so on were conducted. In January 2012 a tourism fair, promoting eco, rural and adventure tourism was arranged. The club also organised Inter-University Movie Fest in five universities in collaboration with North Alpine Club.
Few of the other activities include Interview Session and Step to Glee. Every semester, BUAC holds an interview session as a process of recruitment of new members in the club. It is very crucial for the clubs future to ensure they find out the most suitable minds to lead the club into the future. After recruitment, Step to Glee is a freshers orientation programme organised by BUAC to welcome the new members to the family. This helps in strengthening the bond and getting to know the club better. To make it more interesting and give a new spice to the new members, Step to Glee is being organized outdoors for the past few semesters.
The club looks forward to have many more adventure in the days to come summit the highest peaks around the world, cycle down the most treacherous routes and swim across the Bangla and English channels. Winner of All Barriers the BUAC adventurers are ready for anything to prove themselves.
