Uttarakhand

hills · flowers

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park located in Uttarakhand state. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site.

hills · flowers

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park located in Uttarakhand state. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site.

hills · flowers

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park located in Uttarakhand state. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site.

festival · music

Escape Festival of Naukuchiatal, Uttarakhand is an annual festival of Arts and Music. It's a three day escape into nature which is a diverse mix of creative expressions through contemporary music, photography, pottery, painting and other e…

Skiers filmed from a cable car in Auli. Auli is a popular skiing destination in Uttarakhand. Auli, also known as Auli Bugyal, in Garhwali, which means meadow, is located at an elevation of 2500 to 3050 meters above sea level.

Uttarakhand formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Land of the Gods" due to the many holy Hindu temples and pilgrimage centres found throughout the state.

hills

Aerial view of Musoorie as seen from Landour hills in Uttarakhand, India. Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

hills

Aerial view of Musoorie as seen from Landour hills in Uttarakhand, India. Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

Driving on congestion free roads in Uttarakhand. Heading towards Thakurdwara in Uttar Pradesh from Kashipur in Uttarakhand.

river

Haridwar is an ancient city of Uttarakhand, India. The River Ganga, after flowing for 253 kilometres from its source at Gaumukh at the edge of the Gangotri Glacier, enters the Indo-Gangetic Plains of North India for the first time at Harid…

monsoon · bazaar

Roads of Uttarakhand are destructed after heavy rainfall and landslide. Landslide brought destruction to roads in Uttarakhand. It is difficult to start rebuilding the roads and it will take time too.

bazaar · river

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.

village · temple

Reetha Village is located in the Champawat district of Uttarakhand. Gurudwara Shri Reetha Sahib is sitauted in the Reetha Sahib Village Distt Champawat, Uttarakhand. It is 209 KM from GURUDWARA SHRI NANAKMATA SAHIB.

ceremony

As part of a Hindu remembrance prayer ceremony, an Uttarakhandi family serves a langar lunch after memorial prayers for a departed, to their family and friends in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

river

A kid plays with the cute puppy. He pulls the tail of the puppy while other kids work in the field with their mother. The puppy wants to run away but another kid holds the puppy and put it down on the lap of the kid.

Uttarakhand is known for the natural environment of the Himalayas, the Bhabhar and the Terai. Uttarakhand has a diversity of flora and fauna. It has a recorded forest area of 34,666 km2 which constitutes 65% of the total area of the state.

hills · river

Dodital is a freshwater lake in Uttarakhand, India, situated at a height of 3,024 metres (9,921 ft).

river · lake

Roopkund (sometimes called Skeleton Lake) is a glacial lake in Uttarakhand state of India famous due to more than five hundred human skeletons found at the edge of the lake.

Gray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus.

ceremony · dance

Choliya dance, a popular dance form in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand performing at Kumaoni wedding. Choliya is a dance form practised in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand.

river · temple

Mandakini river flows from the valley of Kedarnath and the bridge that connects to Kedarnath temple, Uttarakhand. Mandakini is a tributary of the Alaknanda River.

ceremony · festival

Kumaoni groom wearing sherwani and sehra readies himself for the baraat, a procession of the from and his attendants from his house to the bride's - Uttarakhand, Kumaoni weddings are very simple but are solemnized with a number of rituals a…

ceremony · festival

Relatives applying 'haldi' to the Kumaoni groom in Uttarakhand. Kumaoni weddings are very simple but are solemnized with a number of rituals and traditions.