Uttarakhand

festival · ceremony

Devotees offer prayer and seek blessings during Nanda Devi Yatra which celebrated once in 12 years. They all are chanting religious bhajans, some praying during Nanda Devi Mohatsav in Uttarakhand, India.

festival · ceremony

Devotees take a halt on the way to Nanda Devi during Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra in Uttarakhand. It is one such festival of Uttarakhand that is famous globally.

festival · ceremony

Devotees cook food in an open makeshift kitchen during Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra in Uttarakhand. The three-week-long Nanda Devi Raj Jat is a pilgrimage and festival of Uttarakhand in India.

festival · ceremony

Devotees chanting religious bhajans, some praying during Nanda Devi Mohatsav in Uttarakhand, India. The three-week-long Nanda Devi Raj Jat is a pilgrimage and festival of Uttarakhand in India.

festival · ceremony

Devotees throng Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra in Uttarakhand. One can see devotees seek blessings from goddess Nanda Devi. The three-week-long Nanda Devi Raj Jat is a pilgrimage and festival of Uttarakhand in India.

festival · river

People walking down towards Aglar river to celebrate Maund Mela, Garhwal - Uttarakhand. Maund Mela is a yearly fishing festival of Garhwal and its origin can be dated back to the pre-independence feudal era, initiated by the then Maharajah…

river · temple

An old bicycle powered knife-sharpener on the streets of Lohaghat town, Uttarakhand. Lohaghat is a town and a nagar panchayat in Champawat district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. This is a hill station with many tourist spots around.

ceremony · dance

Choliya dancers performing at a Kumaoni wedding function. Choliya is a dance form practised in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand.

ceremony · festival

Kumaoni groom along with his family members and priests performing 'havan' before his wedding in Uttarakhand. Kumaoni weddings are very simple but are solemnized with a number of rituals and traditions.

ceremony · festival

Kumaoni women making suwal pithai during a wedding in Uttarakhand, India. This ritual is very specific to Kumaoni traditions wherein wheat flour is kneaded into dough and rolled into rotis but a little thinner and dried in the sun after dip…

birds

The shy female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush in Uttarakhand, India. The Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.

hills

A Common Jester or Symbrenthia hippoclus flits around on Maidenhair Ferns, as seen in Nainbagh, Uttarakhand, in the Lower Himalaya of the Yamuna River valley.

festival

The ardous trek from the Indian state of Uttarakhand through the pass to Mt Kailash and Mansarovar Lake, which falls in the Tibetan autonomous area in China. Mountain Kailash is considered holy by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains.

temple · festival

Uttarakhand, the land known for its sanctity and religious fervor, is a cauldron of religious festivity.

temple · festival

Uttarakhand, the land known for its sanctity and religious fervor, is a cauldron of religious festivity.

river · temple

At the beginning of winter, the idol at Gangotri temple is moved down, in a procession, to a lower village temple, near Mukhba.

river · temple

At the beginning of winter, the idol at Gangotri temple is moved down, in a procession, to a lower village temple, near Mukhba.

monsoon · highway

Narrow and dangerous road along river Mandakini in Garhwal. Heavy rainfall and flood on July 16 and 17 resulted in floods that damaged National highway No. 58 in the Uttarakhand.

monsoon · river

Mahendra Singh Negi is Witness of Uttarakhand flood disaster. He Says " My name is Mahendra Singh Negi. I'm from Vijay Nagar, Agastyamuni. Right now I'm standing at the same place where I owned a house.

monsoon

Heavy rainfall and flood on July 16 and 17 resulted in floods that damaged houses and roads in the Uttarakhand. The river has widened in a few areas, changed its course in some and has engulfed a lot of areas in the Uttarakhand valley.

monsoon

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.

monsoon

Heavy rainfall and flood on July 16 and 17 resulted in floods that damaged roads in the Uttarakhand.

river · monsoon

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.