Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·hills

Swargarohini is 'the ladder to heaven' from the Mahabharath! Early morning over the Garhwal Himalaya, with Swargarohini and Bandarpunch peaks, as seen from Sisters' Bazaar, Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. January 2013.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · highway

Mussoorie has a well stocked market place where you can shop around for just about anything you need.

Uttarakhand·snow

Walking on snow covered roads in the cantonment area of Landour in Mussoorie. January 2020 saw heavy snowfall in the higher reaches of all of the state of Uttarakhand and Landour was no different.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

A bulldozer clears snow from the road near Kelloggs Church and Rokeby Manor on the Landour Chukkar after heavy snowfall in Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

The quaint town of Landour, Mussoorie as seen after heavy snowfall. This was filmed near Kilmarnock and Rose Bank, just down the road from Sister's Bazaar, home to the Landour Bakehouse and A Prakash and Co's shop, and named after the nuns…

Uttarakhand·river · hills

A Himalayan monsoon cataract filmed at 200 frames per second, in slow motion, using a Sony FS700 camera. The waterfall comes off limestone hillsides en route Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

Mussoorie Writers' Mountain Festival, hosted by Woodstock School and the Hanifl Centre for Outdoor and Environmental Study, in Mussoorie, India, brings together more than twenty international authors, mountaineers, artists and experts on Hi…

Uttarakhand·festival

Kids preparing for Holi celebration in Mussoorie. Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus, as a festival of colours.

Uttarakhand·festival

Holi on the streets of Mussoorie Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus, as a festival of colours.

Uttarakhand·festival

Holi on the streets of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus, as a festival of colours.

Uttarakhand·birds

The Verditer Flycatcher (Eumyias thalassinus) is an Old World flycatcher found in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the Lower Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills

Behind the Haunted house in Jabberkhet! This is where all the action takes place in Mussoorie...

Uttarakhand·flowers

A hillside in Mussoorie filled with colourful single dahlias in full bloom. Yellow, red, pink and combinations of colours of the flowers sprinkled across the shrubs of the hillside as bees come to them for nectar, while cicadas call in the…

Uttarakhand·hills · village

Is this a mini hydel in the Mussoorie hills? The Queen of Hill Stations, the Queen's Necklace or a dirty filthy sewer? It all depends on your perspective! Mussoorie can be a charming old hill station town just as much as it can be a crowded…

Uttarakhand·music · hills

The Lyres from Woodstock School in action at Big Gig music festival. Yet not out of school, these young prodigies of Mussoorie's own Woodstock have a jazz combo, the choir consisting of vocals, bass, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, trombone…

Uttarakhand

Holika Dahan preparations in Mall Road, Mussoorie. Holi celebrates the death of Holika in order to save Prahlad and we see where Holi gets its name. The night before Holi pyres are burnt in North India in keeping with this tradition.

Uttarakhand·festival · dance

People dancing during Holy celebration, Mussoorie. Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus, as a festival of colours.

Uttarakhand

Seen on the west side of Landour, near Mr. Ramchandani's Shamrock estate, Childer's Lodge or Nahata Estate, near Durbin or durbeen. Gray or Hanuman langurs are the most widespread of the colobines.

Uttarakhand·hills

Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is located about 35 km from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km north from the national capital of New Delhi.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · highway

Mussoorie has a well stocked market place where you can shop around for just about anything you need.

Uttarakhand

Jabbarkhet Haunted House of Wilderness Films India, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. Haunted house of Jabarkhet where Amir of Afghanistan was kept hostage. Jabbarkhet Haunted House of Wilderness Films India, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · highway

Terracotta Wind Chimes from the 'Queen of Hill stations' in India, i.e. Mussoorie. Mussoorie has a well stocked market place where you can shop around for just about anything you need.

Uttarakhand