Uttarakhand

hills · highway

The beautiful valleys that one can see moving from Mussoorie-Dhanaulti road. Here is the aerial view of the landscapes of Beli-Ka-Danda, the Pepperpot Hill near Kimui village, Uttarakhand.

forest · village

A middle altitude shepherd camp around Majhi and between Agoda and Dodital lake. The shepherds have set up lean-to plastic covered tents, supported by bamboo and wooden poles.

hills · birds

People around the world eat certain varieties of ferns that have high iron content and are lovely to turn into a subzi of sorts, with a nice bitter-sweet vegetable taste.

farmland · hills

Red nashpati and green naakh / naak at Rukmani Nursery in Ghorakhuri in Uttarakhand: a horticulture success story for Uttarakhand state's horticulture mission! The sweetest baggu gosha nashpatis - Red ripe pears grow in a pear Orchard in th…

farmland · hills

Delicious red apples on a tree, awaiting harvest. Bright red apples get ready for harvest in low altitude Yamuna valley of Uttarakhand, using Israeli technology and special root stock clones.

industry · village

Bulls being used to run and power a grain mill, in an old world western Himalayan village in Uttarakhand, India. This Kolti - Kimui area village is not far from Landour and Mussoorie.

hills · river

A trek to the high-altitude lake, Brahma Taal will leave you awestruck with its beauty. A moderate trek in the Himalayas with comparing beauty but definitely found at much higher altitude.

hills

Walking up the scree and rocky slopes of Mt. Rudragaira to get to a 19, 200 foot high trekking peak of a Himalayan summit in the Garhwal Himalaya.

river · hills

Crossing a fast flowing Himalayan stream at the foot of a moraine, as one treks to the pass of Kalindi Khal in the Garhwal Himalaya.

hills · monsoon

Tough walking terrain. One missed or slipped step and you end up with a sprained ankle - or worse! Plodding through knee deep snow atop rocky scree slopes to top of Kalindi Khal in Uttarakhand Long march to top of Kalindi Khal that connects…

hills · flowers

A sea of rarely seen Himalayan wildflowers in the cold valley of the Garhwal Himalaya with matured seeds ready for the next year's flowering season. A field of white-cotton like matured seeds cover the valley surface near a small brook.

hills · forest

A Goral or wild Mountain Goat stands below an Oak tree, alter and watchful but also bemused at the wildfilmsindia cameraperson filming it at the Wilderness Orchard sanctuary in Uttarakhand. He flicks his ears to chase off flies.

hills · birds

A jocular White-cheeked Hill Bulbul with its jaunty crest and yellow vent, as seen at our wildfilmsindia Himalayan estate at Motidhar in Uttarakhand. If ever there was a cheery bird, it is this, it is this...

forest · hills

Bird call resonates across our stream valley in Uttarakhand at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Motidhar, as a Magpie chomps into wild pears.

village

Villagers in the Himalaya share their concerns and worries in life, with the administration, their agricultural woes, revenues, water issues and more... Rural India shares its woes. Villager of Kura says "There was a lot of trouble.

highway · hills

Dhanaulti started out as a sleepy Himalayan town. It has burgeoned into a crowded busy town with a shortage of water, entirely catering to budget tourists from the plains.

snow · river

Terminal icefall and water fall from the Chhaian Bamak glacier which comes from Bandarpunch peaks and range in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand in the western Himalaya, one of the critical water catchment areas for the Ganges riverine sy…

hills · livestock

Sheep flock together in a rolling green alpine meadow or buggyal pastureland in the high Himalaya of Garhwal.

Ice cream cone! Rudragaira peak view of Jogin peans, Auden's Col and Gangotri range peaks, fabulous clouds and glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand.

snow · hills

The Panchachuli Glacier beyond Pithoragarh in Kumaon is a gently (glacially!) moving mass of ice, with dozens of active waterfalls taking away melt waters, from rocky meadows alongside the glacier, and giant peaks above.

farmland · bazaar

After getting a bumper harvest, these farmers sort through a huge mound of fresh, juicy tomatoes to take to the market to sell. Plucking red, ripe tomatoes from a field at harvest time.

festival · village

When one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival gro…