“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·hills

What a stunning moonrise from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Landour-Mussoorie region of Uttarakhand's western Himalaya! The orb of the chaand rises behind a ridge-line of deodar trees, and rapidly ascends into the sky,…

hills

Sunrise over the peaks of Garhwal, as seen from Wilderness Films India's wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya.

hills · village

The Ramlila is a dramatic enactment of the life of Rama, considered an avatar of Vishnu and the hero of the ancient epic, the Ramayana.

hills · livestock

A flock of sheep grazing on green pastures of Kuari pass located in Garhwal region of Uttrakhand. Kuari Pass is probably the best window to view the high Himalayan peaks.

hills · monsoon

Abbott Mount is an old British times hill station in Kumaon, close to Champawat, Devidhura and in the general Almora district.

Uttarakhand·village · farmland

A young Garhwali village boy collects Capsicum or Shimla mirch from the family's fields, along with his mother and village aunts, and his older sister, in the western Himalaya region of Ghorakhuri and Nainbagh along the Yamuna river.

West Bengal·hills · village

Latpanchar, a mountain village in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India, located in the Eastern Himalayan foothills. The settlement consists of small, brightly colored houses and homestays spread across sloping terrain.

hills · livestock

Our camera traps a pair of Kalij Pheasant and a Goral wild mountain goat of the Himalaya

flowers · hills

Already spring in the Himalaya! A variety of colours of Anemone flowers bloom in winter sunshine at wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in Uttarakhand.

festival · hills

More a male bonding fest and a cultural practice than a fishing festival, but riverine plunder, nonetheless. Every fish caught is proudly displayed, even if it is still and should have been left to breed.

birds · hills

Jungle Mynas invade hill country of endemic high altitude Himalayan birds. These are plains birds and not supposed to be straying so far up hill...

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Jungle Myna seen at 7300 feet altitude on Oak trees around Mussoorie in the Himalaya - new altitude record of an invasive adaptable species. They are not supposed to be present in the mountains, as they are essentially a plains species.

Uttarakhand·highway · hills

An enormous prickly much-needled Porcupine or Siahi crosses our Camera Trap and triggers the recording, in the dead of night, on a winter's day in the Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand, around M…

flowers · hills

Mammoth Vernus Crocus Flower Record shuts for night, at wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya

snow · hills

A carpet of freshly-fallen snow with no dirt, mud of footprints can be so inviting! Come scrunch-crunch your way through a carpet of freshly-fallen snow at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forest and mountains in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·snow · hills

We had some heavy incidents of snowfall this past January, at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Estate in Mussoorie.

snow · hills

Views of the Bandarpunch glacier, Hanuman valley, and birch forest from the Chhaiyan Gad camp in the Garhwal Himalaya.

Ladakh·hills

Leg 5 of the Raid de Himalaya 2015 began from Rangdum, went to Padum and ended at Rangdum. Padum is the capital of Zanskar and is about 103 kilometres from Rangdum, which lies half way between Kargil and Padum.

hills · aerial

Kaladhungi and Kumaon lakes region aerial journey of lower Uttarakhand Himalaya. The slippery, narrow road winding up from the last foothill town of Kathgodam to the upper Kumaon hills is hardly the motoring equivalent of a walk in the park…

Himachal Pradesh·hills

Leg 2 of Raid de Himalaya started at Manali and ended at Dalhousie, passing from Mandi, Joginernagar, Palampur, and Kangra districts enroute. Seen here are vehicles passing in Transport stage filmed near Shahpur in Kangra district on day 2.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) suck nectar from garden escape not-gone-wild Dahlia flowers on a sunny day in Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary.

hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

hills

Did you know that the humble Lady bird or ladybug breeds near the glaciers of the high Himalaya, and then they migrate in giant swarms to the plains of north India, for wintering in better climes? We hope this leaves you greater esteem for…

hills · flowers

Himalayan Heather is a small branched tufted shrub which can grow to a foot high. Many stems are clustered together in parallel.