Rajasthan

hills · desert

Village scene of Rajasthan. Children standing outside a mud hut and beautiful painting are drawn on walls. Cow dung cakes are heap for drying in the sun.....

old town · flowers

View of the Samode Palace, the palace is known for its architecture designs. And top view of swimming pool area at the palace.

highway · village

Driving from Kotputli to Neerana on National Highway 8. There are lots of bulky trucks passing by. Small cars and heavy vehicles are sharing same highway.

highway · village

Wagah: the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan Wagah Attari border between India and Pakistan: Independence Day 15th August 2012.

river · lake

One can see the interior of the hotel which is located in the middle of Lake Pichola. Tourists visit Lake Palace in large number.

livestock · village

Monsoon gives the tiny village called Sonkhaliya on the Kota Cross Road a whole new look. Time has its own speed here and the folk culture is the only culture.

wildlife · forest

A leopard attacks a female Peafowl or a peahen, albeit unsuccessfully. After a quick dash, the leopard loses the peahen to flight. A Nilgai antelope mother suckles her young one as a leopard looks out at the herd nearby.

forest · wildlife

Spotted Doves (Streptopelia chinensis) in Jai samand Wildlife Sanctuary. Also, a beautiful example of Aravalli semi-arid scrub and xerophytic vegetation forest in Rajasthan. Birds in Jaisamand Wildlife Sanctuary.

desert

This curious little desert fox (Vulpes zerda) slowly pops out of its hole to scan the environment and after spotting the cameras it comes out of the hole and sits outside.

Indian bread being made in a modern mildly commercial setting! Chakla - belan being used but the chapati is being made on a gas stove - how non-traditional for a rural Rajasthan setting!

river · lake

The number of Lesser Flamingos visiting the Sambhar Lake and adjoining waterbodies in Rajasthan has declined.

dance · music

A woman from Kalbelia tribe performs on Rajasthani folk song. Kalbelia dance is a folk dance of Rajasthan state of India. It is well known by other names like ‘Sapera Dance’ or ‘Snake Charmer Dance’.

festival · livestock

Rajasthani folk dancers perform at the annual Nagaur Utsav in Rajasthan. The largest state of India, Rajasthan has sprawling palaces, formidable forts, fascinating wildlife and golden sandy desert that form the hallmark of this beautiful In…

highway · desert

Trucking it down across the great plains of India, through the desert of Rajasthan, towards the Thar, after Jodhpur.

festival · livestock

A Rajasthani singer sings 'Bande Tu Kar Bandagai' at the annual Nagaur Ustav in Rajasthan, India.

fort

Mehrangarh Fort stands a hundred feet in splendor on a perpendicular cliff, four hundred feet above the sky line of Jodhpur. Burnished red sand stone, imposing, invincible and yet with a strange haunting beauty that beckons .

festival · river

If one common element weaves through the numerous festivals and fairs in India it is the sheer explosion of color and endless surge of pilgrims the synergy of sight and sound makes the festival of rural India as vivid as they are stimulatin…

fort · temple

Shiva temple is located below Ramathra fort in Rajasthan. Ramathra was granted as a jagir (fiefdom) in 1645 AD to Thakur Bhoj Pal by his father the Maharaja of Karauli.

bus · ceremony

At least 15 people were killed and 31 injured when an electric wire fell on a bus carrying guests to a marriage ceremony at Saans village in Tonk district. The bus was carrying 50 to 60 passengers, said witnesses.

wildlife · birds

Demoiselle crane dancing and displaying their wings in desert of Rajasthan. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

livestock · festival

Camel dance is one of the major attractions of Rajasthan's world famous Pushkar Fair. The Pushkar Fair (Pushkar Camel Fair) or locally Pushkar ka Mela, is the annual five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the stat…

fort · industry

One can see guest dining and enjoying traditional Rajasthani food at Surajgarh Haveli in Rajasthan... The town of Surajgarh in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan derives its name from the 18th century fortified Palace SURAJGARH.

farmland · desert

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times.