Landour

Uttarakhand

An 'animal' attack like no other: Large Himalayan wasps attack, sting and carry away all the bees from a beehive, for storing as winter feed! Filmed and witnessed in Landour, Uttarakhand, between 16th and 21st August 2013.

Uttarakhand·hills · bazaar

View of Landour from the Doma's Inn turning, where the Woodstock Tehri road joins the Landour road going down to Landour bazaar, from the hawa ghar.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Crested Hawk-eagle sits atop a tree in the Wilderness orchard and botanical gardens in Landour. The Crested Hawk-eagle or Changeable Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus), is a bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

Uttarakhand·music

Mame Khan belongs to a family of master singers, who perform a unique, oral tradition since more then fifteen generations. His energy and his vocal skill owe much to the influence of his father and tutor, late Shri Rana Khan.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Looking out of a Landour mountain cottage window, to the dripping winter rain in the Himalayan forest outside. Cidrella serrata or Himalayan Toon trees and Oak or Quercus incana dominate.

Uttarakhand·village · forest

Oak-leaf collectors walk down a cemented drain, to head to their village with oak leaves for their cattle in village homes below Landour. Villagers carry headloads of lopped oak leaves.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

Himalayan Bluetail male or Himalayan Red-flanked Bush-robin earlier known as the Orange - flanked Bush- robin seen in Landour, Himalaya.

Uttarakhand

Indian sweetmeats or mithai being made at a mithai shop in Landour bazaar in Uttarakhand, India. A milk and sugar with butter solution is being whisked by the halwai.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Seen through a blanket of monsoon mist, on the cliff-faces of Landour, these beautiful flowers have bracts that secrete a gluey glue-like substance from what then develops into a seed pod...

Uttarakhand·wildlife · forest

A Kokla hariyal or Green Pigeon incubates its clutch of eggs in a Berberis aristata shrub, Landour May 1998. Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·flowers · forest

Deodar trees on the slopes below the cemetery on the north face walk from Kellogg's Church to Char Dukaan in Landour. There is also a Rhododendron tree in full bloom. One can across to Jabbarkhet hill in the distance...

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

During winter, a rustic, whitewashed brick building with a green corrugated roof and wooden doors stands against a snow-dusted mountainside in Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·flowers

Our 200 and 400 frames per second flow motion camera captured these lovely slow motion vignettes of Dandelion seeds blowing in the wind, at our Himalayan estate in Landour one fine sunny day in May 2015.

Landour, Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 400 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand

A Gray Langur (Semnopithecus) scratches itself while another one looks at the camera while basking in the Sunlight at Landour in Uttarakhand. Gray Langurs are also known as Hanuman Langurs in India.

Uttarakhand·birds

A female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris) perched on an electric wire in Landour. These birds are found in the areas of higher elevation and the females have duller plumage than the males.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

The Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent, eastwards towards parts of Southeast Asia.

Uttarakhand·school · highway

The bend of the Chukkar road in Landour with school kids returning home after school. Also some tourist cars are seen passing them by on the narrow turn.

Uttarakhand

Indian people buy crackers and fairy lights for Diwali celebrations in Landour in Uttarakhand. Streets can be seen decorated with tents and fairy lights. Shopkeepers decorate their shops with artificial flowers and colorful lights.

Uttarakhand

The skyline turns yellowish orange at the time of sunset in Landour in Uttarakhand. One can see the beautiful view of mountains during sunset. Silhouette of hills and dusky sky of Landour.

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·music · festival

The Accidentals performing in Big Gig music festival in Landour. This Band is from Woodstock School.