“monsoon”

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

You will have doubtless heard the Kulchure or Himalayan Whistling Thrush even if you have not seen it, on a visit to the mountains up north! The trilling loud whistle of the Whistling Thrush, most often heard in the monsoons, is a familiar…

hills · snow

The monsoon system retreats from the Himalaya, dumping down one last time in the form of the season's first heavy snowfall at high altitudes.

birds · wildlife

Kotwal chidiya or Grey Drongo has a ruby red eye, a forked tail and bluish-grey plumage that makes it stand out and be most visible, especially as it sits on vantage points and the tops of trees, in our middle hills in the western Himalaya.…

aerial · hills

What fabulous landscape in Mizoram! Calm green verdant valley of rice cultivation flanked by thick evergreen drippy forests, narrow mountain roads, gentle rolling hills ad a wonderful rustic bucolic ruralness in India's Mizoram.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills

A crowded residential over-built area on the true left bank of the Beas river in Manali. Monsoon mist and cloud cover drives in over the multi-storeyed fairly haphazard buildings with older apple orchards beyond.

farmland · hills

A broad and mildly sloping Ganga river valley in middle Garhwal leads to the upper Alaknanda Ganga valley village regions of Wan and further up to Joshimath.

birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidhar bird sanctuary: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher qui…

hills · snow

Porters and team members assemble tents on a rocky glacial shelf above the main Raj Parav glacier in Garhwal, en route the Kalindi Khal pass trek in the western Himalaya.

hills · farmland

Ooty, Tamil Nadu: Ootacamund hill station seen from air, with red lateritic soil, green tea gardens.

hills · river

Frogs in a well try to crawl out, slip back on algae: Life in frog well, analogy with life in India! What frog species is this middle Himalayan altitude mendhak? We filmed this at our wildfilmsindia wetlands in the middle Himalaya, around P…

railway · hills

The Toy train of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway winds so slowly through Ghoom and Kurseong that pedestrians walk on the train track, and just step aside for the train to pass, and then casually step back onto the train tracks! See a drive…

hills

The Presidential palace of Rashtrapati Bhavan sits atop Raisina Hill n New Delhi. Raisina Hill is a small Delhi Ridge Aravalli range promontary, flanked by South and North blocks which house defence and government offices in Delhi.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

1300 year old bones and skulls lie scatted at this 16, 500 foot high altitude western Himalayan Roopkund lake in the shadow of Trishul peak. A rare aerial peek into this grisly sight in a beautiful but rough Himalayan ablation valley.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

1300 year old bones and skulls lie scatted at this 16, 500 foot high altitude western Himalayan Roopkund lake in the shadow of Trishul peak.

Ladakh·hills · river

The sacred Gonborangjon rock spire stands tall as the Kargyuk Chu flows past it, snaking its way across a vast flat ground in upper the Lungnak valley.