Uttarakhand

village · aerial

Jumping up and down with super motivation and enthusiasm is team white of pear and apple throwing villagers at the Bagwal festival in Devidhura, Champawat.

flowers · hills

Planting native and indigenous species back onto Himalayan slopes where their numbers have reduced due to cow grazing and habitat loss, a Rhododendron arboreum tree sapling is planted at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Himalayan botanical arb…

festival

Saras food festival New Delhi 2023 has been organised in delhi by Union Ministry of Rural Development from December 1st to 17th December 2023 at Handicraft Bhawan, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 21 states across the coun…

hills · flowers

Paeonia emodi, a species of wild Peony that is endemic to the upper Himalaya, grows at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

snow · hills

Chaukhamba Col ascent route traverses through treacherous glacial moraines and rock screes and mixed climbing grounds, with a combination of glacial ice, rock, fresh snow, scree and rockfall and avalanche danger zones, in the Garhwal Himala…

monsoon

Pilgrims wear colourful plastic rain coats and slog up the stone pathway to get to Tungnath temple on a rainy day in Uttarakhand, above Rudraprayag and below Chandrashila peak.

village · highway

Western disturbances cause mid-summer clouds and rains... Saari village clouds move in rapid motion, in Uttarakhand: Gateway to Deoria Tal and Chopta in Garhwal.

highway · hills

A fabulous mid-winter time western Himalayan snow peak panorama from Buranskhanda village on the Mussoorie-Dhanolti road in Uttarakhand.

ceremony

We take you on an exclusive tour inside a Garhwali wedding in Uttarakhand. This is a quick glimpse of what happens inside the intimate wedding ritual and the festivities.

river · temple

There was never a temple at Dodital but this new modern temple seems to have defiled the pristine wild nature of the lake shore, but Dodital remains a wild Himalayan tarn at 10, 500 feet altitude in the mountains above Uttarakashi in Uttara…

Bulldozer clears the road after landslide on the way to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. The entire Uttarakhand comprises of unstable mountains that are constantly in churn, growing, changing and getting altered.

river · hills

Somewhere between a waterfall and a stream, and almost like an aesthetic created water feature, an open face waterfall cascades off a wide rock face on the climb to Rudragaira peak in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand.

With Blue-throated Barbets calling in the background, this must be the lowest altitude Kiwi fruit growing region in India, and a warm weather one too! Kiwi fruit ripens on the shrub-vine in Uttarakhand fruit district of Nainbagh - Ghorakhur…

farmland · hills

Rukmani Nursery in Ghorakhuri is one of the finest horticulture projects in Uttarakhand, even in the entire western Himalaya.

farmland · hills

A farmer uses his bulls to pull the plough to create furrows in his hard soil fields in Agoda village of the Garhwal Himalaya, in the dry and cold winter months.

hills

High altitude Himalayan country explored in early winter. October 2018 in the high mountains above Dharali, in the Gangotri - Ganga valley of Garhwal in Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

Blue Globe Thistle in full bloom in the high valleys of the Garhwal Himalaya, in late autumn in the month of October 2020. These are mostly found in the higher altitude areas of the Himalayan Range.

temple · village

Garhwal Rifles band accompanies Gangotri idol as it enters Mukhba village Much pomp and pageantry accompanies the winter movement of the Gangotri temple idol on its winter journey.

hills

Srikanta is the taller peak to the left, and Mahla is to the right. Seen high above the Dharali-Harsil valley on early winter trek in October 2018, these stunning images show that the Uttarakhand Himalaya is no less than the high mountain c…

hills · river

This lovely view of Himalayan Birch forests and a stream - tributary of the Ganga - lies in a hidden valley close to Harsil en route Gangotri in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, from where the Ganges emanates.

hills · village

The remote Himalayan settlement of Niti Village, located deep within the Niti Valley near the Indo-Tibetan border in northern India.