Landour

Uttarakhand·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·hills

Sitting within Childer's Lodge estate (now Nahata Estate), near the Top Tibba "doorbeen" point, a group of Garhwali men playing cards and smoking beedis in their spare time.

Uttarakhand

Family of macaques sitting and grooming each other, Landour - Uttarakhand. The macaques constitute a genus (Macaca) of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.

Uttarakhand·forest

Group of Langurs eating tender leaves of oak tree sitting on the branches... 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·monsoon · hills

With the monsoon rains dripping off each fern frond, these ferns festoon all the oak and toon trees on the high ridge of Landour in Uttarakhand's western Himalaya, as the season turns misty and mysterious.

Uttarakhand·birds

One can see Verditer Fly Catcher at their nest feeding young ones... The verditer flycatcher (Eumyias thalassinus) is an Old World flycatcher found in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the Lower Himalaya.

Landour, Uttarakhand

These are Yellow Coster butterfly chrysalis laid on a water tank in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Yellow Coster, Acraea issoria, is a small, leathery-winged butterfly.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher in Landour, as seen from our dining room window! This Verditer Flycatcher, most commonly seen in the middle Himalaya, was spotted in Landour, Mussoorie.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · birds

White-cheeked Bulbul on a Cedrela serrata or Mountain Toon tree, in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. The Himalayan sub-species has a crest atop its head.

Uttarakhand·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·architecture · temple

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·school · hills

Famed for its food - Char Dukani in Landour, Mussoorie. This is a small cluster of three shops/outdoor dhaba restaurants and a post office, and these turn out the best waffles, crepes and pancakes in the hills, with authentic maple syrup br…

Uttarakhand

Mr. Anil Prakash talking to a customer about chocolate making in Landour. As one looks around A.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

Walking on the north face of the Landour Chukkar, near Sister's Bazaar and Devdar, after heavy snowfall in Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Closeup view of Passion flower with complex petal structure in Landour, India. Unique flower with unique purple petal with green leaves gives perfect scenery view.

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·flowers · monsoon

It's raining among the oak and deodar trees of Landour, while garden-escaped Dahlias flower on the rocky outcrops - in red, yellow and white. A Maruti van lunges forward, on the rain-drenched misty roads.

Uttarakhand·birds

Amazing slow motion video of collared pygmy owlet. This tiny little Collared Owlet have rounded head and no ear-tufts. In the Himalayas, breeding season is from March to June but is usually in April and May.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A tiny fella doing what it does best - pecking at branches, looking for its next meal of grubs. It can also be seen actually eating its food, after a long time spent on hunting for it.

Uttarakhand·hills · music

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

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Commelina paludosa was used as a medicinal plant in traditional Indian medicinal systems such as ayurveda.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Priest leading the congregation for Mass spoken prayer during Easter service at St. Paul Church in Landour, April 2014. St. Paul's is an Anglican church in Landour, India.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Female Orange flanked Bush Robin at Satpura National Park. The Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the Orange-flanked Bush-robin, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdi…