Bhurban is a small town and a hill station in Punjab province, Pakistan.
It is located approximately 9 kilometres from Murree city.
The resort town is named after a nearby forest.
Bhurban is situated in between Murree and Azad Jummu and Kashmir at a height of about 6000 feet.
It accessible by the dual Islamabad-Murree Expressway, making it a 45-minute drive from Islamabad, the federal capital of Pakistan.
Bhurban is one of the more picturesque places in the country, and is a tourist paradise with unique flora, and a fauna with a variety species not found elsewhere in Pakistan.
It is known for scenic hiking trails in the nearby Ayubia National Park. Bhurban also has a nine-hole golf course.
The '5 star' Pearl Continental Hotel is a great place to stay. Mount Pleasant Apartments is one of the several resorts in Bhurban that serve tourists visiting the Murree Hills and the national park.
Another beautiful resort in Bhurban is the Bhurban Hill Apartments, located 2 km from PC Bhurban. It has its own source of natural mineral water.
Bhurban's main tribes are Dhunds (now called Abbasis), Janyals, all being indigenous descendants of Muslim hill tribes who have lived here for centuries. Many of these tribes converted to Islam during the 14th to 15th centuries AD.
Most of them still live simple rural lives, whilst a number of them have gone on to seek education and jobs in the plains, in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and even further afield.