Gujarat

Indian Wolf (Canis lupus) in Gujarat's Velavadar National Park, June 2011. Wolves hunt in packs and in Velavadar's grasslands, they can bring down an entire blackbuck antelope, as a single unit! Blackbuck National Park at Velavadar is situa…

Indian Wolf eating baby blackbuck (Antilope cervicapre) in Velavadar national park, Gujarat, India.

bazaar

Crowded market, congested streets, lines of stalls selling clothes like jeans, shirts, kids wear etc at a street market in Gujarat. Gujarat is a state in the western part of India. It is known locally as Jewel of the West.

See how an ant-eating Pangolin defended itself from the lions in the Gir forest of India. The rare, armour plated pangolin had the perfect defence tactic:roll up into a ball and stay there - whatever happens.

crafts

Gujarati woman along with her daughter stitching bed sheet. Its a Kind of embroidery. It is rightly said that Gujarat has given India the greatest heritage in embroidery work and craft through its famous and versatile Kutch embroidery.

wildlife · birds

Flock of Demoiselle cranes forage on afield in Gujarat, India. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

bazaar

Amish Shah visits the local market outside the main entrance of a Temple in Bet Dwarka Gujarat.

Memorial to clan's valour. These paliya (memorial stones) with chhatri commemorate the various members of the jhala clan slain in battle between 100and 1800 cent. AD and their womenfolk who committed sati.

desert

Wild Asses play fighting with each other in India's Gujarat state. Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India.

wildlife · birds

A group of common crane in Gujarat... "The Common Crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.

coastline

Visitors are seen enjoying and relaxing at a beach in Gujarat. While the waves hit the shores. And high tides is made by the waves. Beach side is a tourist spot in Gujarat.

lake · river

Pahalgam is one of Kashmir's important fishing retreats. The water bodies in area are rich in trout.

bazaar · highway

Roads of India are slowly becoming a booming area for vendors. While the wide road provides an opportunity to the vendors to carry out their business without interrupting the flow of traffic.

livestock

Have you ever seen the horns of the bulls from Gujarat? They have huge heads adorned with massive horns! Cattle circle a tank at which women and kids are washing their clothes.

wildlife · birds

Common Cranes blong to the Gruidae family of birds. They usually flock together and are hardly seen alone. They are winter visitors to Northern and the western part of the Indian Subcontinent.

Tribal women selling colourful ethnic beads bangle on streets of Gujarat. One can see bangles design using beads of different colours. Bangles are a traditional wear of the Indian woman.

dance · forest

Dancers and musicians of Siddhi village. The Siddhi, also known as Habshi, are an Indian and Pakistani ethnic group of Black African and/or Afro-Arab descent.

Pineapple seller slices ripe pineapples for selling. Junagadh is the headquarters of Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

wildlife · birds

The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China. There is also a small breeding population in Turkey.

coastline · temple

At Koliyak, a village at the Bhavnagar district in the Gujarat state of India, people reach out to the Shiva temple about 1.5 kilometers into the sea.

crafts

The most spectacular textile based handicraft of Gujarat is needlework or embroidery, a chief source of living for thousands of artisans in the state.

wildlife · birds

Painted storks nesting on tree in Bhavnagar. The Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family.