Uttarakhand

village · hills

An aerial view of Jatoli village depicts this rural settlement nestled in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India.

festival · ceremony

The entire hamlet gathers for the prayer and celebration of Devta Jhulana in Palki Palanquin, the Uttarakhand harvest festival from Harsil near Gangotri. Drummers set the ideal ambience for the peasants to become spiritual.

hills · village

Deep in the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, local villagers practice a unique and deeply rooted tradition centred around faith, nature, and community.

hills · snow

After a hailstorm, the winding roads of Uttarakhand are partially covered in snow, with patches glistening between the green trees, while branches and treetops remain mostly untouched.

monsoon · hills

After an intense period of rainfall this year, monsoon clouds disperse as they retreat from the Himalaya at the end of the monsoon season, as seen from wildfilmsindia's Himalayan conservation lands in Uttarakhand.

temple

Baleshwar Group of Temples in Champawat town of Kumaon, Uttarakhand : Ancient temple complex with intricate stone carvings in the Himalaya.

highway · forest

Delhi to Champawat road trip into the misty forests and mountains of Kumaon in 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.