Sikkim

ceremony · hills

The high altitude approach to the Gurudongmar lake lies in India's north Sikkim region, at an altitude of over 17, 000 feet above sea level, after traversing the high Himalayan peaks of Chomiomo and Kanchenjau.

A spray of water falls off a cliff en route Lachung village, in north Sikkim, India.

festival · politics

Casino Mahjong, the B'boy dance crew put up a great show at Red Panda Winter Carnival in Sikkim. Chief Minister Pawan Chamling inaugurated the Red Panda Winter Festival- 2016 at MG Marg.

flowers

Cyclamens have a tuber, from which the flowers and roots grow. In most species, leaves come up in autumn, grow through the winter, and die in spring, then the plant goes dormant through the dry Mediterranean summer.

music · river

Nepali song presented during Sikkim Winter Carnival in Sikkim. Sikkim gears up for its biggest event, Sikkim Winter Carnival 2014.

Pema Choedon is from Dekyiling, Dehradun, born in 1991 in Sikkim, and stands 165 cm tall. Her hobbies are writing, working out, yoga, and dance. She has done her schooling from Tibetan Homes School, Mussoorie.

View from Dzongri top in the Kangchenjunga National Park in Sikkim. One can see the WHMI Base Camp in the middle foreground, at Chaurikiang, and the wider expanse of peaks around Kanchenjunga, India's highest peak and the Goecha La pass to…

Help us identify these hybrid varieties of hot-house orchids which we filmed in Sikkim. The long-stalked variety with the lady's slipper type architecture are both varieties of Paphiopedilum.

hills · industry

Himalayan wild Raspberry or Rubus grows in Sikkim, India. Yellow Himalayan Raspberry is a shrub, growing up to 2 m tall. It is clothed with prickles and reddish hairs.

flowers

The passion fruit is a vigorous, climbing vine that clings by tendrils to almost any support. It can grow 15 to 20 ft. per year once established and must have strong support. It is generally short-lived (5 to 7 years).

flowers

Bristletips is a shrub to 2 m tall, with spreading, drooping branches. Leaves are elliptic acute, with 5-7 prominent parallel veins and numerous fine cross veins. Leaves have rusty star-shaped hairs beneath.

wildlife · snow

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.

Various colourful items are being sold at temporary small shops outside Ganesh Tok, Sikkim amidst colourful prayer flags. Ganesh Tok is one of the major places of attraction for the tourists in the north-eastern state of Sikkim.

It's snowing in the upper reaches of Kanchenjunga National Park, around Dzongri in Sikkim, India.

festival · politics

Casino Mahjong, the B'boy dance crew put up a great show at Red Panda Winter Carnival in Sikkim. Chief Minister Pawan Chamling inaugurated the Red Panda Winter Festival- 2016 at MG Marg.

forest

The Grey Bush Chat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Female with the feed for juveniles at 8,000 ft. in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India.

hills

A mountain landscape is recorded in Sikkim within the eastern Himalaya. The scene includes steep ridgelines and layered hills extending into the distance.

The main reason spiders spin webs is to catch their dinner. When an insect, such as a fly, flies into a spider's web, it gets stuck on the sticky threads.

flowers · industry

Workers plucking tea leaves from Temi tea Garden in Northeast India. The Temi Tea Garden in Ravangla, established in 1969 by the Government of Sikkim, is located in South Sikkim in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim.

festival · politics

GingerFeet band from Kolkata performs during Red Panda Winter Carnival in Sikkim. Members: Abhishek Gurung - Vocals Dibya Raj Mukhia - Guitars/Backing Vocals Vedant Razz - Lead Guitars Abhinandan Mukherjee - Drums Lokes Mangar - Bass With m…

farmland · livestock

Woman carries animal fodder on her back and walks down a road in Sikkim, India. Feed and fodder is the single factor with very functions in enhancing the productivity of livestock.

Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state located in the Himalayan mountains. The state borders Nepal to the west, China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and east, and Bhutan to the southeast.