Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·festival · dance

Young Boys and Girls dance at Garhwali fair, to regional songs performed live at Bhadraj mandir, Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·forest

Fresh snowfall view of Jaonli and Gangotri range peaks from wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet mountains and wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·river · railway

See the browner muddier waters of the Aglar join the cleaner bluer waters of the glacial-fed Yamuna fed from Yamunotri. Good mahseer fishing at this spot of the confluence.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Fortunately, it was only a brief forest fire that hit Flag Hill and the hills around the Jabarkhet Nature Reserve in Mussoorie, and was quickly extinguished by locals, in April 2022.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

Clouds gently billow around Tibri hill, after a gentle dusting of winter snow, as seen from wildfilmsindia's wildlife sanctuary and botanical estate at Jabbarkhet in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The wildfilmsindia team tries to battle a forest fire in the Himalaya during a crackly summer season around Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·hills

First light and dawn colours from a fabulous spring-time prelude to a sunrise over the Western Himalaya, as seen from our Iris Cottage at the the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet estate in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand

Even the sun is lent moods by the elements around it, as seen from the earth. Clouds chiefly lend it character and artistry, as seen from the wildfilmsindia mountains at Jabbarkhet around Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·river · architecture

After the rains, a clear view of the plains of north India. Mists and clouds shoot down the hills. The beautiful time-lapses of hill-stations near Mussoorie i.e, Landour, Jabbarkhet overlooking the plains of Dehradun.

Uttarakhand·highway · river

Dehradun to Mussoorie traffic has come to a standstill, as the road has collapsed at several places, turned into a waterfall and powerful torrent, with landslides and rockfalls turning passage impossible, after heavy rains on 27th August 20…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Walking up a grassland near Kaplani and Masrana villages on the Mussoorie-Dhanolti ridge brings into sharp focus the proximity of the high Himalaya and the closeness of the plains of north India.

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·hills · flowers

In monsoon profusion, this Gladiolus in pink blooms as a garden-escape run-wild at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate at Pari Tibba - the Fairy hill around Mussoorie, among the Agapanthus flower fields.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

A Grey drongo sits around waiting for insect feed from insects visiting the Himalayan Horse Chestnut or Aesculus indica flowers at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · flowers

When walking among the tree's branches, this tota actually uses its beak as a fifth leg, using it to locomote and feed alike! Eat some, ruin some, drop the rest to the ground...

Uttarakhand·river · wildlife

What a natter bird the forktail is, with the demeanour and movements of a ballerina! The elegant tail is held high and periodically wiggled around to provide a nice contrasty black and white look! It overturns leaves at the moist edges of o…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The elegant grey and mild rufous of the Himalayan TreePie nicely complements the white throat patch and rufous underbelly of the White-throated Laughing Thrush as they carouse together to dig in the oak forest floor, for food and seeds, at…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

On your next trip to the mountains and forests around them, listen out for this call and you can look around you and find the Red-winged Shrike Babbler, a lovely albeit shy mountain forest bird well worth looking out for! Filmed here at the…

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

You will have doubtless heard the Kulchure or Himalayan Whistling Thrush even if you have not seen it, on a visit to the mountains up north! The trilling loud whistle of the Whistling Thrush, most often heard in the monsoons, is a familiar…

Uttarakhand·music

Rekha Bhardwaj sings a song from her husband's Bollywood film 'Saat Khoon Maaf'.

Uttarakhand·festival

Gulzar's poetry on mountains along with Pawan Varma and Sukrita Paul Kumar inside the Parker Hall at Woodstock School, Mussoorie during the Writers' Festival 2012. Gulzar is a renowned poet, filmmaker, lyricist and writer.