Landour

Uttarakhand

Orange-flanked Bush Robin and Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch excavating nest-hole, in Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

The Landour Cemetery as seen covered in snow during the winter of 2011, on the north face of the Landour Chukkar. Established in 1828, the 1.5 acre cemetery spreads over both sides of the road.

Uttarakhand·hills

March 2017: Dahlia Bank aka Halcyon Manor was a happy home, prior to the demolition in the fall of 2017. Rhododendrons flowered, the Collared Pygmy Owlet called out across the hill and all was well in Landour.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

Kulti, Kanda, Mathuli villages in Jaunpur district of Garhwal, in Uttarakhand. These villages can be hiked to from around Landour and Mussoorie and still exhibit traditional Garhwali culture, with few plains and touristy influences.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

A wide panoramic view of the Himalayan ranges from Landour, Uttarakhand, India. Dense shrubs and foliage occupy the foreground, while rolling green hills with scattered village settlements extend across the middle distance.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers blooming at the Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. Tall flowering spikes display delicate light pink, deep pink, and white blossoms that gently sway in the breeze.

Uttarakhand

Local milkmen emerge from Anil's Cafe in Chak Dukan bazaar of Landour, even as expats, Woodstock students and locals sit around and enjoy his paranthas, Maggie noodles and waffles. Anil Singhal can cook a mean pancake, too!

Uttarakhand·forest

Wildfire at the Deodar filled forest outlining the shape of the hillocks as seen in the distance from our Wilderness Estate in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills

Common Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) and Indian Tortoiseshell (Aglais cashmiriensis) and two common Himalayan butterflies that we saw in Landour in November 2014.

Uttarakhand

Tshering and Tony Malik grow the best begonias on the Landour hill. One can hardly avoid their brilliance when walking past Kellogg Church and on the way down to Rokeby Manor!

Uttarakhand

Mongoose-like Yllow-throated Marten or Tutrali climbs on a tree during the night in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Tutrali climbs the tree from a house roof and then jumps back to the roof from the tree during the night.

Uttarakhand

End of monsoon mists roll in to Jabbarkhet in Landour, and soon nightfall is upon us, with the sky over the plains of north India turning to a deep orange and then shades of red, in a phenomenon that we call the winterline.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Priest of St. Paul's Church, Landour reads out the passage from the Bible before having the Holy Communion during the Easter service. St. Paul's is an Anglican church in Landour, India.

Uttarakhand·snow · highway

After an especially heavy round of snowfall, Landour cantonment area is bereft of all tourists as the road going up to this area is blocked by snow.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A flurry or bird activity on a winter's morning, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour.

Uttarakhand·wildlife

As if on cue, this Langur monkey has rummaged through and upset a dustbin in Landour, looking for scraps to eat, as if it is following instructions of 'Use Me'.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

One of my favourite stories centers around a nest cavity in the tree trunk of a Toon tree in Landour, a small hill-station town in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

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 · flowers

A light pink - mauve flowering Camellia flower shrubs flowrs out of season, at our wildfilmsindia Himalayan gardens around Landour, Mussoorie.

Landour, Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Crocus flowers bloom during the monsoon season at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

On a cloudy wintery day in March 2018, a White-crowned Laughing Thrush, Hill Barbets and a Hill partridge of Peora call out at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · hills

A timelapse of Clouds flying over the Landour Bazar and subsequently, sunshine in a valley with the impression of cloud shadows on the valley forests.