Buxa National Park, in the Alipurduar district, was set up in the year 1982-83 at the north eastern corner of West Bengal bordering Bhutan and Assam. It is declared a National Park in January 1992. The name “Buxa” has been derived from Buxa Fort – a fort at an altitude of 867 meters on the Sinchula Range guarding the most important of the eleven routes into Bhutan, which once was used for detainees during freedom movement of India.

With an area of 759 sq km this picturesque reserve with its prodigious Terai, Bhabar as well as Hilly landscape, crisscrossed by numerous rivers and their tributaries, presents a breathtaking landscape. Buxa National Park is the largest forest in Dooars. Buxa is rich with bio-diversity and has a great collection of rare orchids and medicinal plants. Because of inaccessible terrain some parts of Buxa hills in the Sinchula range are still unexplored.

The veritable flora and fauna of these wet forests attracts tourists and nature lovers every year. The Generic diversity of mammals is second highest among all the tiger reserves of India. Astonishing bio-diversity of animals comprise of a reach fauna of more than 230 identified species, 67 mammals and 36 species of reptiles.

A peaceful retreat nestled in the foothills of the mighty Himalayas, BUXA DUAR remains a favourite in any travellers precious album for lifetime. It is a destination that makes hectic urban life seem irrelevant; a location in the lap of nature with mountains, forests, and streams;that’s BUXA DUAR enriched with its scenic charm and a rich bio-diversity, situated in the JALPAIGURI DISTRICT of West bengal famous for its tiger reserve, the only one in the whole of the Kanchenjunga circuit.

It is a small hilly forest village of 25 families with no electricity and poor or even mill cellular network, which means complete freedom from phone calls and a chance to absorb the beauty of the place.

The place is a bird watcher’s delight. Trans-Himalayan migratory goosander, the beautiful ibis bill, fork-tails, varieties of red-stars, wagtails and great pied hornbills abound in the area. Migratory birds such as common teal, gargani teal, large whistling teal and white-eyed pochard visit the Narathali Lake.One of the rarest birds of India, the black-necked crane, can be sighted in BUXA DUAR in early winter.