Landour

Uttarakhand·hills

Doma's Inn is a one of its kind guest house in Landour, known for its famous interior and food.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Wynberg Allen School, Landour bazaar with the Clock tower and the tangled mass of Landour bazaar with houses one upon the other, awaiting the next cataclysmic seismic temblor.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

A melodious singer, the Rufous or Black-capped Sibia is a bird often seen in the Landour area of Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Located on the outskirts of Mussoorie, Landour is seen to be covered with white fog and mist while hailstones pour all over this small hilly area. Small and big hailstones pour all over the mountains and trees making a great sound.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

The Scaly-bellied Woodpecker (Picus squamatus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and adjoining regions, ranging across Afghanistan, Iran, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan.

Uttarakhand

This is archival footage from the early 1990's when Landour was much smaller, there were fewer illegal constructions, electricity usage was lower and everything was less high-impact overall!

Uttarakhand·hills

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Female of Verditer Flycatcher can be identified by its trilling call even as it looks far less glamorous than its more flamoboyant verditer coloured blue male! Verditer Flycatcher in Landour, as seen from our dining room window! This Verdit…

Uttarakhand·school · hills

Yes, this Langur is an appointed security guard on duty to scare the notorious Macaques at Woodstock school in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Macaques of the area roam around uninvited and disturb the locals.

Uttarakhand·crafts · festival

People buy hand-printed sarees at the Christmas mela, a showcase of winter collections and the products of Uttrakhand like Jam.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

There has been a tussle between rock bees, wasps, a Himalayan Barbet pair and a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker couple.

Uttarakhand

Do help us identify this yellow coloured moth seen in Landour, Mussoorie. Viewers have suggested that it could be something in Lymantriinae subfamily, perhaps Lymantriades genus? Euproctis sp. would also be very possible.

Uttarakhand

A sweet maker applying thin edible silver leaves, known as chandi ka vark, to barfi at a sweet shop in Landour bazaar, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand

Gray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Catholic church congregation giving offerings and tithes to God during Easter Sunday at St. Paul Church in Landour. St. Paul's is an Anglican church in Landour, India.

Uttarakhand·music · hills

Dhruv Visvanath Trio (DVT) is an Alternative Rock band from Delhi, formed by Dhruv Visvanath who is a self taught guitarist, drummer, bassist, pianist and many other instruments.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Chestnut bellied Nuthatch enters nest-hole in Horse Chestnut tree. Deodar and Oak mixed forests as seen from Landour with Nag Tibba in background.

Uttarakhand·hills

Doma's Inn is a one of its kind guest house in Landour, known for its famous interior and food.

Uttarakhand·snow

The winter season's first snowfall hits Landour and Mussoorie: January 2025, with a blanket of on the slopes and deodar branches.

Uttarakhand·flowers

A rhododendron tree in its full glory of scarlet flowers in Landour in spring, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens and conservation zone.

Uttarakhand

It is not just snow that falls in the mountains, but hailstones can be unpredictable, damaging and frightening even, especially when they fall in those freak spring and summer storms! See the stones wreak damage on our flowering plants and…

Uttarakhand·snow

See winter clouds roll in over Landour and Mussoorie, even as the day clears up to reveal a thick snowpack after the multiple snowfalls of the winter of 2020. See Sanjay Narang's rental property at Pine Lodge, as part of Rokeby Manor.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Heliophorus moorei (Azure Sapphire) is a delicate little butterfly in the middle Himalaya and lower hills, and seen here in Landour, Uttarakhand.