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Himachal Pradesh·temple
Sanjay Dutt arrives at a Manali orphanage, wearing saffron kurta, and the kids get excited to see a known Mumbai wallah! Sanjay Dutt puts down flowers at a temple or gurudwara, and mattha tekos or prays with folded hands, to the deity, whil…

Himachal Pradesh·hills · forest
Snowfall in Manali - February 2019. What a busy town Manali is, with winter sports and snow tourism, as well as the WHMI (Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute), as well as many tourist attractions, fisheries and trout hatcheries, heli…

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills
Snowfall in Manali - February 2019 While some of the more fortunate ones may live within or in betwen an apple orchard's sloping terraces, much of Manali town is crowded with multiple multi-storey buildings and unplanned developments.

Himachal Pradesh
That is a cute three storey red facade cottage with an attic, in Manali, but whatever happened to those fabled apple orchards? It seems like Manali, a hill station town in Himachal Pradesh, grows houses, RCC concrete constructions and touri…

Himachal Pradesh·farmland · highway
Electric pylons ruin the view in the mountains, but as one ascends from the plains towards Manali, it is the trucks on the highway that ruin the journey and introduce dust, diesel fumes and noise to the state highway.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · river
Nakeela pass or Nakee la, the third mountain pass of the brown and barren mountain range of Greater Himalayas, Indus river flowing through Naki la, on the Leh Manali journey, the route which is part of national highway 21, NH 21.

Himachal Pradesh·highway · hills
Driving through the Punjab heartland, heading into Himachal Pradesh and the western mountains, from the plains of north India. Dual lane highways populated with trucks, cars and a fairly fast road infrastructure.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · highway
Solang Valley is shown in archival footage with green mountain slopes, visitors, and active tourism. Tourists are seen paragliding, walking, and observing the landscape, while small roadside stalls and parked vehicles line the area.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills
Those embankments along the Beas look rather ugly, with the cementing done in a crude fashion, ruining the banks of the Beas, and constraining the natural flow of the river.

Himachal Pradesh·temple
An Indian woman tourist and some other families visit Hadimba Devi Temple set among a lovely grove of old Deodar or Himalayan Cedar trees in the Kullu Manali region in 1990's India: Archival footage of Himachal Pradesh and an old world Hind…

Himachal Pradesh·temple · architecture
Sulphurous water bubbles out from the womb of the earth. Many places in the Himalaya and hot water springs that carry sulphur in their water and are said to be salubrious to bathe in.

Himachal Pradesh
What a lovely autumn view of poplar trees shedding their leaves, in a green and dreamy landscape, as we stop along the way from the plains into Himachal, heading towards Manali.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · festival
Mall Road in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, shines with festive charm as the famous street is decorated with colorful buntings, lanterns, and bright lights during the winter season.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills
A melange of summer-time in Manali views as seen from the air, with the Pir Panjal range in the backdrop, the Solang nullah in the distance, Rohtang pass up above and Vashistha and Prini villages close at hand.

Himachal Pradesh·monsoon · river

Himachal Pradesh·hills · farmland
Start off from Pinjore airport, fly over fields and cultivation in the plains of India, and then enter the Shivalik foothills and lower Himalaya, as your helicopter steers you towards Manali! See terraced cultivation in the Himalaya, from a…

Manali, Himachal Pradesh·temple
Driving towards Manali in Himachal Pradesh. See an adventure park board aside. Driving past a Maruti 800, white Hindustan Motor's Ambassador car. A milestone shows the distance to Manali.

Himachal Pradesh·highway
High altitude trucking and commercial goods movement in the Indian Himalaya. Trucks on Manali Leh highway on the Himachal side, en route Ladakh, in winter months.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills
A crowded residential over-built area on the true left bank of the Beas river in Manali. Monsoon mist and cloud cover drives in over the multi-storeyed fairly haphazard buildings with older apple orchards beyond.
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