Landour

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.

Uttarakhand·temple · architecture

Landour has four Raj-era churches, Kellogg Church which was built in 1903, once American Presbyterian, now non-denominational, and also home to the Landour Language School.

Uttarakhand·hills · bazaar

Himalayan organic pulses being sold at Himalayan Haat, a Garhwali organic pulses shop in Landour bazaar. A bright local Garhwali girl helps her parents manage the shop, in between her higher studies in Chandigarh.

Uttarakhand·snow · highway

Walk past Sujata Chauhan's house and Victor Banerjee's Parsonage and on towards the cemetery, in snowed over winter-time Landour.

Uttarakhand·snow

The roofs of the houses in Landour, Mussoorie are covered in snow after an especially heavy snowfall in winter. One can even see a bulldozer trying to clear the roads of the snow.

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Uttarakhand·hills · music

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

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) or Himalayan Pied Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Is that a Thick-billed Thrush or another species of ground thrush? Help us identify it! A Turtle Dove sits on a deodar tree branch, while a Himalayan Pied Woodpecker digs into the monsoon mosses on a Oak tree, preening itself along the way.…

Uttarakhand

Two Yellow throated Martens playing together on a hill in Landour, Uttarakhand. The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is an Asian species of marten which is listed by the IUCN as Least Concern due to its wide distribution, evidently…

Uttarakhand·music · festival

Following in the footsteps of Parikrama, that started out of Delhi University and went on to become one of the most iconic independent music establishments in the country, Delhi based Raagleela is a the fusion band with a difference.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

The first bird in the video is the Black-Headed Jay which is a common resident in the Himalayas. They can be found in hills at a lower altitude as well.