Uttarakhand

hills · livestock

Moving clouds over the hills of Uttarakhand. One can see herd of sheep grazing on the green meadows...... Uttarakhand formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India.

ceremony · festival

Jagrata taking place at groom's place before the wedding at Regdu - Uttarakhand. Kumaoni weddings are very simple but are solemnized with a number of rituals and traditions.

ceremony · dance

Traditional Kumaon dance 'Choliya' performed at a Kumaoni wedding functions. Chholiya is a dance form practised in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

High altitude Himalayan Birch forests en route Sukhi Top in Uttarakhand, along the Gidara route that also heads on to Dayara buggyal.

ceremony · dance

Kumaoni women gathered for the mehendi ceremony of a groom and dancing to the devotional songs as a ritual of Kumaoni wedding in Uttarakhand.

farmland · hills

We filmed these bats flying around our plum orchard in Uttarakhand earlier this week, at an altitude of 7800 feet, at the Wilderness Himalayan Orchard and Mountain Quail Sanctuary.

temple · festival

Uttarakhand, the land known for its sanctity and religious fervor, is a cauldron of religious festivity.

Regdu is a Place in Barakot Taluk in Champawat District of Uttarakhand State. Champawat district is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Champawat is the administrative headquarters.

festival · temple

Uttarakhand, the land known for its sanctity and religious fervor, is a cauldron of religious festivity.

temple · festival

Uttarakhand, the land known for its sanctity and religious fervor, is a cauldron of religious festivity.

river · temple

At the beginning of winter, the idol at Gangotri temple is moved down, in a procession, to a lower village temple, near Mukhba.

hills · livestock

Bharals grazing on Himalaya mountains in Uttarakhand, India. The Bharal , also known as the Blue Sheep, is a high mountain sheep that is the primary prey of Snow Leopards.

snow · river

Gangotri is situated at an altitude of 3,048mts above sea level at the Uttarakashi district of Uttarakhand state. Located on the banks of the holy Bhagirathi River is one of the Char Dhams of 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.

monsoon

Heavy rainfall and flood on July 16 and 17 resulted in floods that damaged roads in the Uttarakhand.

monsoon

Heavy rainfall and flood on July 16 and 17 resulted in floods that damaged houses and roads in the Uttarakhand. The river has widened in a few areas, changed its course in some and has engulfed a lot of areas in the Uttarakhand valley.

monsoon · hills

In the riverbed full of debris, JCB and trucks carry out the work of cleaning out the debris, a month after the Uttarakhand floods ravaged the state.

river · monsoon

River still flows through houses in Silli even after a month of the floods that destroyed many villages in Uttarakhand.

flowers · monsoon

Splendid natural scenery on the trek to Gidara and Dayara Bugyal from Barsu village in Uttarakashi district in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

A splendid natural scenery awaits on the trek to Gidara and Dayara Bugyal from Barsu village in Uttarakashi district in Uttarakhand. Flowers are at full bloom in the meadows of these basins.

livestock

Indian men slaughtered a goat and inflating its lungs like a balloon at a village in Uttarakhand.

industry

A Gray Langur from Uttarakhand fetches a cauliflower from inside a polythene bag and goes a high wall to relish it. Langurs are usually plant-eaters and usually live on the moisture from the food they eat.