Buxa Fort
A fort at 867 metres inside the Buxa forest, thirty kilometres up from Alipurduar.
- Where
- Alipurduar, West Bengal, India
- Grade
- State heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 26.7550, 89.5803
Get the Buxa Fort stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Buxa Fort. 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 Fort
Jaldapara National Park 26 km
Rhino in the dooars, seen from an elephant.
Buxa Tiger Reserve 31 km
A fort used as a prison, deep inside the forest.
Raimona National Park 41 km
Bodoland's first national park, on the Bhutan border, notified in 2021.
Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary 45 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.
Daga Dzong 46 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.
Cooch Behar Palace 50 km
Modelled on Buckingham Palace in 1887, with a dome twenty four metres above a marble floored durbar hall.
Tachogang Lhakhang 64 km
A small temple on the far bank of the Paro Chu, reached by an iron chain footbridge from the road between Paro and Thimphu. It is linked to Thangtong Gyalpo, the 15th century Tibetan saint and bridge builder famed for his iron chain bridges across the Himalaya.
Sikhna Jwhwlao National Park 71 km
Three hundred square kilometres of the Manas country in Bodoland, made a national park.
More state heritage sites in West Bengal
Questions
Where is Buxa Fort?
Buxa Fort is in Alipurduar, West Bengal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Jaldapara National Park (26 km), Buxa Tiger Reserve (31 km), Raimona National Park (41 km).
How do I get the Buxa Fort stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Buxa Fort 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 Fort 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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