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Uttarakhand·hills · school
Flag Hill is located around five kilometers east of Mussoorie just off Tehri Road. The hill is littered with granite boulder formations, offering great opportunities for beginners of the sport right through to the more advanced climber.
Uttarakhand·festival · village
Participant shows fish caught by him in the Maund mela . Villagers from nearby village gather to celebrate this festival. They make fishing net to catch fish at Maund mela. This festival is also known as Fish killing festival.
Uttarakhand·hills · school
Flag Hill is located around five kilometers east of Mussoorie just off Tehri Road. The hill is littered with granite boulder formations, offering great opportunities for beginners of the sport right through to the more advanced climber.
Uttarakhand·hills · school
Flag Hill is located around five kilometers east of Mussoorie just off Tehri Road. The hill is littered with granite boulder formations, offering great opportunities for beginners of the sport right through to the more advanced climber.
Uttarakhand
While on the way to Gangotri our crew shot these amazing landscapes along the Tehri Dam that has been built on the River Ganges (Ganga).
Uttarakhand·hills · architecture
See the old abandoned clock tower that once provided the time to thousands of the town's residents. Now Tehri is a ghost town, mostly submerged within the Tehri dam! See an old temple too - it couldn't do much to save itself...
Uttarakhand·monsoon
It is said that the Tehri Dam was a reason that towns like Rishikesh and Haridwar were saved from extensive drowning. But it still remains one of the many dams that are blamed for the disaster that struck the state of Uttarakhand.
Uttarakhand·monsoon
In June 2013, a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides in the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
Tehri, Uttarakhand·highway · river
Long queue of trucks,buses results in heavy traffic on a road of Devprayag in Uttarakhand, India.
Uttarakhand·festival · river
Maund Mela is a yearly fishing festival of Garhwal and its origin can be dated back to the pre-independence feudal era, initiated by the then Maharajah of Tehri. 'Maund' is a local term meaning the state of drunkenness or addiction.
Uttarakhand·monsoon
In June 2013, a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides in the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
Uttarakhand
This is a view of the Tehri Dam as seen before the floods of June 2013. The water level is extremely low.
Uttarakhand·hills · forest
Ananda in the Himalayas is a luxury destination spa in Narendra Nagar, Uttarakhand, set in the Indian Himalayas. Set in the erstwhile Tehri maharaja's palace grounds, Ananda is set at a warm altitude of just over 3000 feet.
Uttarakhand·river · farmland
The river Ganges above Tehri dam... Green fertile fields and brown ripening wheat in the fields, a wide open valley below Uttarkashi and Dharasu, and a wide river-bank in case there are floods.
Uttarakhand·river · music
Muni Ki Reti is a town and a nagar panchayat in Tehri Garhwal district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Uttarakhand
Tehri Dam in North India, in Uttarakashi district of the ganga valley, Ganges basin, Uttarakhand, India.
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