“Himalayas”

Sikkim

Driving through the Deorali of East Sikkim district in Sikkim to Gangtok where one can see the tall buildings of Sikkim, India. Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state located in the Himalayan mountains.

Gangtok, Sikkim·hills · flowers

Driving towards Katao Top from Lachung in North Sikkim, India. Katao is situated in North Sikkim (India) and is nearly 144 kilometers from Gangtok.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · river

Manali to Pinjore chopper flight, Himachal Pradesh. The Wilderness Films chopper-cam films the Manali to Pinjore helicopter flight.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

"Mussoorie Writers' EXPERIENCE THE HIMALAYA: A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL (Nov. 1-4, 2012) celebrated exploration, natural history and mountain culture.

Uttarakhand·hills · bazaar

Himalayan organic pulses being sold at Himalayan Haat, a Garhwali organic pulses shop in Landour bazaar. A bright local Garhwali girl helps her parents manage the shop, in between her higher studies in Chandigarh.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

The area of Landour in Mussoorie receives heavy rains during the months of June through September, the monsoon months in The Himalaya. Watch heavy rain falling on the Deodar trees of Jabbarkhet and Landour.

Hindu pilgrims trek to Manimahesh peak in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. One can see pilgrims use ponies to trek towards Manimahesh peak. There are tented accommodations for the pilgrims to stay in the foothills of Himalaya.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

Tabo Monastery is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape.

hills · river

A group of tourist's leave for Lhasa on a bus from their hotel. Despite rampant Chinese-led modernisation, Lhasa (literally the 'Place of the Gods') is still largely a city of wonders.

livestock

Herd of sheep grazing on the Himalayan meadows in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

hills

Kabru is a mountain in the Himalayas on the border of eastern Nepal and India. It is part of a ridge that extends south from Kangchenjunga and is the southernmost 7,000 metres peak in the world.

hills · snow

The Gangotri Group of mountains is a subdivision of the Garhwal Himalaya in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills

As seen from Auli with tramway infrastructure in profile, the wide Himalayan panoramic range of peaks is clearly visible at sunset, with the sun's glow hitting just the summit of India's second highest peak - Nanda Devi.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

"Mussoorie Writers' EXPERIENCE THE HIMALAYA: A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL (Nov. 1-4, 2012) celebrated exploration, natural history and mountain culture.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

"Mussoorie Writers' EXPERIENCE THE HIMALAYA: A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL (Nov. 1-4, 2012) celebrated exploration, natural history and mountain culture.

hills · snow

Snow capped mountain ranges, Ladakh. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

Assam·wildlife

Indian rhinos grazing on grassland in Kaziranga in Assam, India. The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and Indian one-horned rhinoceros, belongs to the family Rhinocerotidae.

hills · aerial

A view of hills lower down from Manali, in Himachal Pradesh. See the plains of north India, from the Himalaya, as you descend in a helicopter... using Wilderness Films India's chopper-cam! Manali (alt.

highway · industry

Weed so high it dwarves even the buses passing by! Cannibis sativa or marijuana / hemp is a wild plant or weed (pun unintended!) in India. It grows throughout the country, as a pesky roadside plant.

river · lake

It's a soothing sight to see clouds in motion over the Himalayas. The snow capped Dhauladhar ranges of Uttarakhand and Himachal are an amazing beauty to watch under moving clouds.

river · wildlife

View of Guwahati city including the Brahmaputra river seen aerially . Assam is a state of India in the north-eastern region. Its capital Dispur, is located within the municipal area of Guwahati city.

forest · monsoon

Aerial shots of the amazing and massive rain forest cover of Yingkiong, in Arunachal Pradesh. What a canopy of rain forest trees! This incredible green cover may be a result of the heavy rainfall that strikes every year.

lake

The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia.

It's a wonder who Azalea shrubs do so well in Bhutan but then they are a gardened variety of Rhododendrons, after all, and hail from the Himalaya, going north into China!