Landour

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

The flock of birds initially seen in this video are house sparrow females and the lone bird seen later on is a common Stonechat (Female). ID Source : Information Source - Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm field guides)

Uttarakhand·flowers · 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·crafts · festival

A market display at the Christmas Mela in Landour features handmade resin jewellery arranged on a DIY stand made from a natural tree branch. The display includes pendants and earrings in circular, teardrop, and owl-shaped designs.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Splendid view of Rain lilies in Landour, India. Beautiful pink flower crocus lilies adds beauty to beautiful landscape of Landour and the place seems rocky and hilly where Rain lilies are blooming.

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·desert

Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Verditer flycatcher - Male: verditer-blue plumage, darker in wings and tail; black lores. Female: duller, more grey overall. The Nilgiri Flycatcher E.

Uttarakhand·village

Slow Motion of hailstones captured in Landour in Uttarakhand. After the high temperature of summer days relief comes as rain makes its appearance along with big drop of hailstones.The hailstone falls on the water making the water to splurg…

Uttarakhand·hills · school

The plains of Dehra dun and beyond the Shivaliks, the towns of Roorkee and Saharanpur, can often be seen from Landour, after a good shower has washed away the pollutants in the air! See the valley of Dehra dun glisten after the rains! As on…

Uttarakhand·crafts · festival

At the Christmas Mela Landour, a variety of handcrafted items are displayed across vibrant stalls.

Uttarakhand·flowers

We filmed these wild daisy-type wild (or garden escape?) flowers at our Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. Help us identify the species!

Uttarakhand·industry

A mansion was destroyed by Indian workers and JCB machines of the local cantonment board in the western Himalaya, after the High Court gave a demolition order, due to irregularities in the construction and have rules that were cited as havi…

Uttarakhand·flowers

Like the true lilies the Daylily belongs to the Liliaceae family. However they fall into is the Hemerocallis genus and not the Lilium genus. The Hemerocallis was first described by Linneaus in his book Species Plantarum in 1753.

Uttarakhand

This butterfly fluttered by and landed on this fern leaf in the monsoon season, at Landour, in July 2013. It turned out to be Heliophorus moorei, an identification thankfully given by Hemant Ogale.

Uttarakhand

Hanuman langurs live in their natural habitat in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. 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·hills · forest

The view of amazing horse Chestnut fruit pods in the Himalaya of Landour, Uttarakhand. Aesculus hippocastanum is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

Uttarakhand

A Yellow Coster butterfly emerges from chrysalis on a water tank in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. The Yellow Coster, Acraea issoria, is a small, leathery-winged butterfly.

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·festival · bazaar

An eco-friendly exhibition stall by Fibres India at the annual Landour Mela (Christmas Market) in Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, held outside the historic St. Paul's Church in the Char Dukaan area.

Uttarakhand·festival · hills

Handmade candles of a wide variety being sold at the winter Christmas mela in Landour, Mussoorie, as seen around Char Dukaan.

Uttarakhand·forest · temple

Deodar forests in Landour's springtime. See the deodar 'flowers' and the multitude of insects in the air, having just bred in spring-time. They fly all over and sit on the rocks too.

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·hills

This video shows exactly how electric cables are changed in Landour. Even though electricity is important, these men are risking their lives to change electric cables bare handed and without any gears. Very dangerous.