Landour

Uttarakhand·school

Woodstock School is a Christian, international, co-educational, residential school located in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with the town of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

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…

Landour, Uttarakhand·wildlife

An immature Himalayan Griffon Vulture sits atop a rock and awaits its chance at a nearby leopard kill of a cow, at Wilderness Films India's estate in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

Griffon Vulture soaring effortlessly on Himalaya thermals in Landour, Uttarakhand. Griffon Vulture enjoys soaring on low, mid and high thermals.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Mass spoken prayer by St. Paul's Church, Landour before the Holy Communion during the Easter service. St. Paul's is an Anglican church in Landour, India.

Uttarakhand·music · hills

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

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

The Blue-capped Rock Thrush in Landour, Uttarakhand, India! The Blue-capped Rock Thrush (Monticola cinclorhynchus) is a species of chat.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A pair of Himalayan Barbets call out to each other, in superbly resonating unison, on a spring-time Oak tree with fresh leaves, in Landour in Uttarakhand. The great barbet (Megalaima virens) is an Asian barbet.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Camera captured smoke which is raising up in the sky from a forest in Landour, Uttarakhand. The smoke can be seen moving across the entire valley and rising up high in the sky.

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 · school

See here in Landour and a frequently-sighted resident it is, the Green-backed Tit forages in hunting parties, in Uttarakhand's middle forests. "The Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) is a species of bird in the Paridae family.

Uttarakhand·street food · hills

A man chopping wood for burning in Landour. The weather is getting a little cold and people in the small town are used to cooking on fire wood.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Thanks to Nikhil Devasar, we're now sure that this is a Common Buzzard! Abhishek Gulshan, while not wanting to question this more authoritative identification, suggests that "somehow this looks like a Himalayan Buzzard to me.

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·forest · wildlife

This langur is enjoying its spring-time feast of fresh crunchy oak leaves in the lower Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary, around Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Workers slice and smoothen Cheer and Kail pine wooden planks at a construction site in Landour, India.

Uttarakhand·birds

The collared pygmy owlet is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Uttarakhand·forest

Misty evening in Mussoorie, beautiful rainbow shines over Jabarkhet Natural Reserve and enhances the beauty of Mussoorie, india. Rainbow adds value to greener mountains of Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

Droplets hanging on plum tree branches and leaves, the moist green moss on the bark, the forests of Landour and the surrounding region turn into a rainforest full of life during monsoon each year.

Landour, 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·forest · hills

Himalayan Bar-tailed Tree Creeper approaches nest in a dried up and dead deodar tree at the Landour cemetery, near Victor Banerjee's house 'The Parsonage'.

Uttarakhand·temple · architecture

Bajri / gravel, raet / sand and other construction materials being dumped upon the road, near Kellogg's Church, for a renovation project that also saw thousands of loads of malba and other construction junk carelessly thrown down the hillsi…

Uttarakhand·hills

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