Landour

Uttarakhand·bazaar

Prakash's shop is Sisters' Bazaar and Sisters' Bazaar is Prakash's shop! Sisters' Bazaar is named after the Nuns who served as nurses in the British dormitory present in this area.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Male Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker at its nest-hole, feeding a chick! Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker nesting in Landour, Mussoorie, India. This is a resident in the foothills and lower/middle hills of Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Display of home decor like a photo frame hand made thread art paintings, key chains and rings, and many more decorative items.

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Kaithal or Wild Pear blossoms carpet the slopes of the Wilderness Orchard and Botanical Gardens in Landour, Uttarakhand, as seen on 26th March 2017.

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Uttarakhand·hills

Despite all the rumours (and the deceptive sign-board!), Dahlia Bank or Halcyon Manor is not the home of Sachin Tendulkar but that of Mumbai hotelier Sanjay Narang in Landour, Mussoorie.

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Erigeron bellidioides - a wild daisy in Landour Daisy Fleabane are carpeting plants which spontaneously bloom in hill-stations, on the ground with wild grass, peering from wall cervices, and almost any place available.

Uttarakhand·hills

Common Gull butterflies mud puddling in Landour Do write in if you agree! Are they Common Gull butterflies? This butterfly is common in India (including the Andaman and Nicobar islands), Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and My…

Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

After the monsoon rains have hit the hills, what were once bare tree trunks just a few weeks before are now festooned with a profusion of fern species. This is a particularly productive Toon tree in Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A Verditer Flycatcher on an Oak tree in Landour. Two Saint Bernard dogs (a puppy and a full grown dog) being walked in Landour, Uttarakhand, along with a Himalayan sheep dog - a Tibetan Mastiff.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

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·hills

Dawn breaks over Landour - a Himalayan sunrise

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·hills

Tall Deodar trees stand tall along the hill-side on the north face of Landour hill, along the cemetery walk, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·forest · village

Located in the outskirts of Mussoorie, Landour is a sleepy little hamlet. It’s hard to believe the sheer contrast of the nature of both these locations, situated just about 5 km away from each other.

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An amazing clip of tall and colourful Tree Dahlias in Landour with Mussoorie visible in the background.

Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 200 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·wildlife

Group of langur monkeys jump from a branch of a deodar tree in Landour, to another tree below.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Beautiful apricot blossoms in Landour, Uttarakhand. An apricot is a fruit or the tree that bears the fruit.

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A band of langurs cause commotion in Landour. They jump noisily onto the red roof of the house of Devina Anand (Dev Anand) opposite Bakehouse and Prakash's shop.

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Gray Langurs sitting on the branches of a Deodar tree in Landour, sunning themselves and generally whiling away time on a lazy winter's day. They have fairly humanesque expressions as well as postures and seem almost bored.

Uttarakhand·birds

Chestnut Bellied Rock Thrush female in Landour. Bird sitting in Landour.

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.