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Experience the vibrant Hornbill Festival ….Where the gusto of tribal culture comes in grand! The Festival is named after a bird, Hornbill. This is a widely respected bird that finds its mention in the folklore of the tribes of the state.

Rajaji National Park is one of the most visited wildlife sanctuaries in the northern region of the country. It is beautifully nestled over 820.42 sq km that covered three districts of Uttarakhand state i.e. Dehradun, Haridwar and Pauri Garhwal. Founded in the year 1983, the park is well comprised of different varieties of species such as tigers, Asian elephants, cobra and beautiful birds along with avifaunal species like parakeets, kingfishers, hornbills, woodpeckers, peafowl and eagles. A number of visitors come to this pristine place and enjoy their vacations like never before.

Buxa Tiger Reserve lies in Alipurduar district of West Bengal. Its northern boundary runs along the international border with Bhutan. The Sinchula hill range lies all along the northern side of BTR and the eastern boundary touches that of the Assam state. National Highway No.31 C roughly runs along its southern boundary. It is the eastern most extension of extreme bio-diverse North-East India and represents highly endemic Indo-Malayan region. The fragile "Terai Eco-System" constitutes a part of this reserve. The Phipsu Wildlife Sanctuary of Bhutan is contiguous to the north of BTR. Manas National Park lies on east of BTR. BTR, thus, serves as international corridor for Asian elephant migration between India and Bhutan. To the south-west, the Chilapata Forests form an elephant corridor to the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary. The reserve encompasses as many as eight forest types. The divisional headquarters is located at Alipurduar. The forest is divided into two divisions: East and West. The Himalayan griffon, beautiful nuthatch, four different varieties of hornbill and the red breasted Himalayan partridge are important birds in this reserve. Among the wild animals, clouded leopard, tiger, wild dog, pangolin and Himalayan black bear are rare. Buxa Fort is an important landmark for this reserve. This fort was captured by British-India in 1865 after the Bhutan War from Bhutan. Later this fort was used as a detention camp for Indian freedom fighters during the Indian freedom movement.