
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Fly through the deodars and Blue pines of the Manali valley! Start from some fields and come on over Prini and new Manali town, over the Beas river, across more cultivation and the main Kullu-Manali road, into deodar forests above, and into the Malana nalla / nullah / nala. The forests are thickly covered in a blanket of winter snow. Further up, one can see apple trees cultivated in patches below the forested zone. One flies over a ridge and across into the Malana valley. Malana cream! or Malana ice cream? The village of Malana lies far below the helicopter, in the valley below. Malana is a very old village to the north-east of Kullu Valley. This solitary village in the Malana Nala, a side valley of the Parvati, is separate from the rest of the world. The peaks of Chandrakhani and Deotibba
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