Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Travel and documentary photographer and adventure travel writer Ahtushi grew up in the very urban capital city of Delhi.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Travel and documentary photographer and adventure travel writer Ahtushi grew up in the very urban capital city of Delhi.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Travel and documentary photographer and adventure travel writer Ahtushi grew up in the very urban capital city of Delhi.

Uttarakhand·hills · temple

The Jwala Devi Temple is situated on the crest of Benog Hill near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, surrounded by forested mountain slopes and open grassy terrain.

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Rajma bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) growing in a vegetable garden at Motidhar, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Deep within the misty forests of Mussoorie, a female Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) clings to a moss-covered tree, her determination echoing through the woodland.

Uttarakhand·wildlife

A green treehopper-like insect, likely Darthula hardwicki, perched on the tip of a leaf in Motidhar, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·industry

Nursery work at a plant nursery in Jabarkhet, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. Two workers are shown preparing a large quantity of potting mix for container gardening and plant propagation activities.

Uttarakhand·hills

Dramatic clouds sweep across the towering ridges of the Garhwal Himalayas near Mussoorie, creating a constantly shifting mountain landscape.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

The White-throated Laughingthrush (Garrulax albogularis) is a charismatic Himalayan bird frequently sighted in the forested slopes around Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

This video captures a Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis) in Jabarkhet, Mussoorie, nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Clouds and light haze drift across the mountains of Jabarkhet, Mussoorie, softening the outlines of forested ridges and distant hills.

Uttarakhand·hills · industry

This close-up video from Jabarkhet, Mussoorie captures a lupin leaf (genus Lupinus) delicately covered with fresh dew drops.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

In Mussoorie, A Rufous Sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) perches gracefully on a tree branch, actively feeding on the ripe tree fruits. Between bites, the bird pauses to look around, displaying its alert and inquisitive behavior.

Uttarakhand·politics · forest

Descending from Jabbarkhet through lower Mussoorie and Landour bazaar to the main Mussoorie-Dehradun road further down.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

Landour lies far higher in a more rarified atmosphere, and consists of 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 · festival

Sankar Sridhar is an award winning photographer and travel writer who specializes in documenting remote regions of the Himalaya by living with the tribes that call these spaces home.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Virginia Jealous's poetry collection, Things Turned Upside Down, was released by Picaro Press in 2011.

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Timelapse of clouds over the forested mountains of Jabbarkhet, near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand.

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Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Great Blackvein butterfly sucking nectar from Aesculus flower in Ladour. In May each year, thousands of Great Blackvein butterflies (Aporia agathon) descend on the blooms of the Himalayan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) at the Wilderness O…

Uttarakhand

In May each year, thousands of Great Blackvein butterflies (Aporia agathon) descend on the blooms of the Himalayan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.