Uttarakhand

temple · river

Like many Himalayan temples that never existed a few years ago, this one has proliferated in recent years... The Ganesh Temple Dodital is situated on the banks of Dodital Lake.

hills · livestock

A breeding pair each of Barking Deer and Goral or wild mountain goat of the Himalaya gambol on a misty hillside in the Himalaya, within the wildfilmsindia conservation estates in Uttarakhand.

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…

hills · aerial

A bird’s-eye view of Darwa Top in Uttarakhand reveals a dramatic Himalayan landscape shaped by rugged terrain and dense alpine forests.

aerial · hills

Aerial view of sunset near Shri Madmaheshwar Temple, one of the sacred Panch Kedar shrines in Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

Clouds pool together, form and gather in a valley leading up to Traills Pass around the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in Uttarakhand in the western Himalaya, in this aerial view, as seen aerially, from the air.

village · aerial

village

wildlife · hills

Kakar or Barking Deer of the Himalaya, as it gambols, grazes and feeds on green leaves and oak branches, by our wildfilmsindia stream at Motidhar in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · aerial

Sunderdhunga Valley with ancient glacial moraine shelf with mud flutings, in high altitude Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

Panwali Dwar peak near the Nanda Devi Sanctuary as seen from below Sunderdhunga Khal, in time lapse, in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. A good cloud time lapse that obliterates the peak on a bright sunny day.

Uttarakhand·lake · river

Summer rain at Dodital Lake beyond Uttarakashi, as a tourist family enjoys seeing droplets of rain falling on the high altitude lake in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · temple

Kartik Swami temple lies on a sharp and very steep rocky Himalayan ridge, and is visited by millions of Hindu devotees annually Bird's eye view of Kartik Swami Mandir at Malkhi in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the…

aerial · temple

Bird's eye view of Kartik Swami Mandir at Malkhi in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air. The temple is located on a knife-sharp ridge with thick forest on all sides.

river · lake

Dodital trek from Agoda & Uttarkashi: The Emerald Lake in Garhwal makes for one of the nicest treks. A local villager tells us of the benefits of using Bergenia or Shilphara / Saxifrage as a root medicine herb.

hills · wildlife

In the forests of the Himalayan night: Goral or wild Mountain Goat, Barking Deer or Muntjac and Jerow or Hill Sambhar tramp our Himalayan habitats at the wildfilmsindia conservation grounds in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

farmland · village

Agricultural green cropped fields in Uttarakhand, around Bazpur and Uddham Singh Nagar: Aerial view. Vast paddies of cropped fields in India, to feed the masses.

festival · village

Villagers jump into river en masse, stun and kill all the fish in a centuries old festive tradition: People fish at Maund mela. Villagers come together to pillage the Aglar nadi on one day each June.

hills · snow

Granite spire and snow peak with fresh winter now, in the Jallandri Gad valley above Harsil, in Uttarakhand.

village · aerial

Where two sets of villagers stone each other: Varahi Devi Temple at Devidhura in Champawat, Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.

aerial · temple

A typical plains village in the lower reaches of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially. Rice paddy fields and much greenery pervade the landscape This temple floated down and landed mid-river! Shiv Mandir at Kimtoli village in Champawat,…

village · music

This beautiful idyllic Himalayan village is now an abandoned Bhoot gaon in Champawat of Uttarakhand The fields have run fallow, and the houses long since falling apart ever since the villagers left forever this abandoned ghost village in th…