Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·hills · highway

A CNG truck unloads cylinders for use in local homes. Scooties and bikes ply the Mussoorie mall road. Orange Jai Sri Ram flags flutter in the winter cold.

Uttarakhand·river · forest

Spotted Forktail chicks get big and fluffy in their stream-side nest at wildfilmsindia sanctuary under a fern filled hillside on the banks of the Rispana stream in Mussoorie. Along comes Mama Forktail to feed them with insect fare.

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Himalayan Morel mushrooms or gucchi / guchhi grow giant in size at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

A pair of Spotted Forktails spotted along a Mussoorie stream in the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand: An elegant stream-side resident that eats insects and pirouettes around the water and stones around a river, all day.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

The toot toot-toot toot is the four note call of the Collard Pygmy Owlet, with the warble whistle of the Common Hill Partridge in the background audio, on a bright autumn morning at our wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in the western Himalaya,…

Uttarakhand·forest · monsoon

Male and Female Kaleej / Kalij Pheasant seen in monsoon greenery around Mussoorie, at the end of the breeding season, when chicks have been born and have become independent.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A valley full of blooming Agapanthus Lily in the Himalaya? wildfilmsindia grows thousands near Landour Valley of purple flowers! This Lily valley around Mussoorie is wildfilmsindia's floriculture hub Monsoon clouds mill around the valley ev…

Uttarakhand·river

With fresh baskets, nets and trapping tools, these village men drink water from a small stream waterfall en route the Aglar river where the Maund Mela is to be held.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Nasturtium climbers with orange flowers at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie. Did you know that the leaves are edible and can be eaten in sandwiches or just plain? Even birds and insects love them, no wonder...

Uttarakhand·river

Kempty Falls must have at one time, long ago, been a lovely forest waterfall, abandoned and isolated.

Uttarakhand·snow · forest

With a deep blanket of winter snow within the forest, Nag Tibba at nearly 10, 000 feet altitude stands in the next range over from Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·flowers

These Shasta daisies have turned wild rebels and grow across the slopes of our Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet around Mussoorie, in the summer months.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Benog, Bhadraj and the cloudy villages and forests of Benog Wildlife Sanctuary, beyond Cloud End, near Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

Th snowfall was so sudden and intense this January 2022 that JCB bull dozers had to be called to action! They plough away from the snow from the roads and make way for traffic.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

A brilliant view of the Gangotri wall, Rudragaira and Jaonli peaks as seen from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Peony buds begin to appear at the Himalayan Peony farm as part of the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·temple · wildlife

The gods deep inside a cave covered in vegetation inside Benog Wildlife Sanctuary in Mussoorie. A single room building as Jwala Devi Temple inside the wildlife sanctuary. A shrine to the Hindu gods in the wilderness.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These Dahlia flowers are competing with wild Himalayan flowers and cover by seeding and spreading themselves in the wild, as garden escapes.

Uttarakhand

Not as prolific as the tens of thousands of daffodils at our Jabbarkhet estate, but a wide variety cheerfully blooming in spring-time nonetheless, the narcissus and daffodil / nargis varieties at our Motidhar estate in Mussoorie bring about…

Uttarakhand·river

While a Common Hill Partridge calls out, a male Kaleej Pheasant gets confident, turns up in breeding attire and finery, and displays his red face lappet and the white kalgi feathers atop its head, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Motidhar…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A mellifluous Maroon Oriole calls melodiously while a Grey-winged Blackbird gets Rhododendron pollen on its face at a Rhododendron arboreum tree at our wildfilmsindia estate at Motidhar in Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

With a Hill Barbet and a Blue-throated Barbet calling, and a Rufous Sibia too, a Grey-winged Blackbird takes full advantage of the display of Rhododendron flower heads before it, above our Bindal stream at Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie.