Buxa Tiger Reserve
A fort used as a prison, deep inside the forest.
- Where
- Alipurduar, West Bengal, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 26.4852, 89.5247
Get the Buxa Tiger Reserve stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Buxa Tiger Reserve. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your West Bengal volume with your photos and a note.
Near Buxa Tiger Reserve
Cooch Behar Palace 20 km
Modelled on Buckingham Palace in 1887, with a dome twenty four metres above a marble floored durbar hall.
Jaldapara National Park 30 km
Rhino in the dooars, seen from an elephant.
Buxa Fort 31 km
A fort at 867 metres inside the Buxa forest, thirty kilometres up from Alipurduar.
Raimona National Park 49 km
Bodoland's first national park, on the Bhutan border, notified in 2021.
Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary 60 km
One of Bhutan's smallest protected areas, 268.93 square kilometres in western Sarpang and southeastern Dagana along the border with West Bengal. Its forests rise from 200 to 1,600 metres between the Sunkosh river to the west and the Sanathang to the east.
Panbari Mosque 64 km
The oldest mosque in Assam, built in the time of Hussain Shah and still standing at Dhubri.
Daga Dzong 74 km
A fortress in Dagana District in the south of Bhutan, serving as the district headquarters. It also houses the district's monastic body, so like the great dzongs of the west it works as both government office and monastery.
Gorumara National Park 77 km
Watchtowers over salt licks in the Terai.
More hidden gems in West Bengal
Questions
Where is Buxa Tiger Reserve?
Buxa Tiger Reserve is in Alipurduar, West Bengal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Cooch Behar Palace (20 km), Jaldapara National Park (30 km), Buxa Fort (31 km).
How do I get the Buxa Tiger Reserve stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Buxa Tiger Reserve and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your West Bengal volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Buxa Tiger Reserve before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your West Bengal volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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