“Himalayas”

hills

High altitude Himalayan Birch forests en route Sukhi Top in Uttarakhand, along the Gidara route that also heads on to Dayara buggyal.

bazaar · festival

Devotees gathered at the Paddal Ground Mandi, Himachal Pradesh for the Jaleb procession which take place during the Mandi Mahshivratri Festival.

bazaar · festival

Devotees swing the palanquin of the deities during Mahashivratri procession at Mandi - Himachal Pradesh.

Uttarakhand·temple · architecture

Hemkund Sahib (also spelled Hemkunt) is a Sikh place of worship Gurudwara, known as Gurudwara Sri Hemkunt Sahib Ji, devoted to Guru Gobind Singh Ji (1666--1708), the tenth Sikh Guru, which finds mention in Dasam Granth, a piece of work beli…

Chamoli, Uttarakhand·temple · hills

High ridges surround the Nanda Devi Bio Reserve and Hemkund Sahib Gurudwara and very exotic flowers bloom in the area.

flowers · hills

Himalayan Birch or Betula utilis trees or bhoj parta on the bark of which old Hindu manuscripts were written! A splendid natural scenery on the trek to Gidara and Dayara Bugyal from Barsu village in Uttarakashi district in Uttarakhand.

snow · flowers

Potentilla flowers bloom even as snow-melt waters run under ice floes along a snow tongue, causing a most intriguing pattern - almost magical! A splendid natural scenery on the trek to Gidara and Dayara Bugyal from Barsu village in Uttaraka…

river

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. It rises with an elevation of 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal that is limited in the west by the Tamur River and in the east by the Teest…

forest · hills

Beautiful view of pine trees in a Himalayan mono-culture forest, with cones hanging off the branches.

birds · wildlife

The Changeable Hawk-Eagle or Crested Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) is a bird of prey species of the family Accipitridae.

birds · hills

This Himalayan barbet has a green tail and yellow beak. They chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take insects.The great himalayan barbet's scientific name is Megalaema virens.

temple · ceremony

Vaidyanath Siva Temple, Baijnath is a famous 13th century temple dedicated to Lord Shiva as Vaidyanath, 'the Lord of physicians'.

Bar-headed Geese at Tehla jheel, near Aman bagh and Alwar, below Nilkanth temples, at Sariska National Park, Rajasthan, India.

Kargil, Ladakh·festival · flowers

Members of the Brokpa tribe perform traditional songs and dances during the annual Apricot Blossom Festival, locally known as Chuli Mendok, in the Aryan Valley of Ladakh.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · wildlife

Rugged mountains of Spiti Valley—large colonies of the Himalayan Giant Honeybee (Apis laboriosa) nesting on a steep rocky cliff.

hills

A group of trekkers makes its way through the spectacular wilderness of Harsil Valley, deep within the Garhwal Himalayas.

hills · aerial

A stunning aerial view of the picturesque Kangra Valley, where the mighty Beas River flows through a dramatic Himalayan landscape.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A female Himalayan Woodpecker actively pecking and drilling into a tree trunk in the temperate forests of the Himalayas.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

A beautiful winter scene unfolds in the snowy mountains near Tungnath and Chopta, located in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Witness a breathtaking sunrise at Jabarkhet, Mussoorie, where a thin golden line slowly paints the horizon before dawn.

hills · river

Ransi village in Uttarakhand offers a dramatic view of the Ganga river flowing through a deep Himalayan gorge, surrounded by steep, forest-covered mountains.

hills · forest

We have stopped all forms of poaching and habitat disturbance, so these Himalayan pheasants just come and gambol among our Arum Lilly Calla flower beds at wildfilmsindia.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbles around in the undergrowth at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

hills · festival

Himalayan people crowd together at Devidhura Festival in Champawat, Uttarakhand, for stone pelting occasion.