“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Wild Himalayan Prunus Cherry blossom in early winter growing at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical in the western Himalaya. Surprisingly, the wild cherry flowers in the fall-pre-winter season and not in spring like other fruit trees do!

Uttarakhand·village · hills

Garhwali village women perform a pooja in Agoda village near Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand. The men accompany to the beats of hand drummed drums.

flowers

A green and ripening / unripe seed pod of the Lily of the Nile or Agapanthus lily, as seen at the wildfilmsindia botanical collections in the western Himalaya.

highway · forest

The Buggyal meadows of Chopta are now increasingly invaded by tourist camps and shepherds, but are still a green spread of beautous proportions, with thick forests and grassy meadows populated by the likes of Monal Pheasants and herds of Th…

forest · river

What a cheery and neatly-turned out birdie the Forktail is! A Spotted Forktail feeds a small frog to her chicks at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary stream-side.

flowers · wildlife

Kniphofia or Torch Lily is not a true lily, but makes excellent cut flowers and is loved by bees and birds alike.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summer-monsoon time in our forests.

village · highway

Western disturbances cause mid-summer clouds and rains... Saari village clouds move in rapid motion, in Uttarakhand: Gateway to Deoria Tal and Chopta in Garhwal.

Uttarakhand·forest

Clouds well up from Dehradun to forests of wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet, among sunlight and shadows Clouds well up from Dehradun to Mussoorie's forests at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet, play among the sunlight and shadows Westerly disturbances…

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely in the spring season at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

How nice that such places actually still exist?! And wild birds that cross the Himalaya come here to seek shelter and feed, with no fear of any danger of threat! Quite aperfect situation of humans hosting birds! Demoiselle cranes Khichan vi…

flowers · hills

The gardeners and assistant manager at the wildflmsindia botanical gardens and arboretum in the western Himalaya get to work with planting late winter season flower bulbs in our refurbished and repaired flower beds, after a disastrous fire…

wildlife · birds

Cranes darken the sky and ground - so many birds create the most beautiful cacophony of Demoiselle Crane calls! What a sight! What an absolutely fabulous sight of wild birds coming together in such numbers to escape the harsher climes up no…

flowers · hills

Kerria japonica Japanese Rose, a flowering shrub, and multiple small Irises with orange marked petals, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the western Himalaya, in the speing of 2022.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Benog, Bhadraj and the cloudy villages and forests of Benog Wildlife Sanctuary, beyond Cloud End, near Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills

On a bright clear winter evening, the alpenglo of a winterline evening is reflected richly as the clouds move past and day turns to dusk...

forest · hills

Male and female Kalij Pheasant couple root around in the forest leafy under storey, at Motidhar sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, with the red lappet of the male matching the dropped Rhododendron arboreum petals, in terms of colour tonality.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The wildfilmsindia team tries to battle a forest fire in the Himalaya during a crackly summer season around Mussoorie.

hills · snow

View from a tele-lens of Bandarpunch’s summit with its corniced summit and lowest ice fall, and finally across the Bhagirathi valley a panorama from Srikantha to Gangotri peaks and Jaonli.

Himachal Pradesh·village · hills

The village of Tashigang / Tashigong is a remote outpost in the Himalaya, in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Native to the Himalayas, Indian Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) is a tall, deciduous, spreading, shady tree, with a straight trunk, and branches in whorls.

hills · village

One can see a beautiful old monastery on this hill top after Tangtse village in Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Tangtse lies on the valley floor through which the Harong stream flows.

wildlife · forest

Elephant clears path for birding tourists at Nameri National Park, Assam. Nameri National park is good place for bird watching.

Himachal Pradesh·dance · music

Tibetan women perform Tibetan Drum dance, a Tibetan cultural dance at a stadium as seen aerially in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.