Surfing is normally associated with places like Hawaii, California and Australia’s Bondi Beach, but the sport has now even reached as far as the coast of Bangladesh.
Cox’s Bazaar, in the country’s remote south-east, is better known for its cyclones and vulnerability to rising sea levels, but it also boasts of having, at 125km (78 miles), the world’s longest unbroken sandy beach.
According to the man who claims to be Bangladesh’s first surfer, Zafar Alam, it also has great surf.
“When I’m riding the waves it feels like I’m on a speedboat and I just love that feeling,” he says.
