forest

forest · flowers

With a land area of 143 000 km2, the country is endowed with more than 6000 species of flowering plants including 30 bamboo species. Bamboo is important and popular in Nepal.

forest · flowers

Mature old Rhododendron arboreum forests in the Annapurna National Park in Nepal. The old trees have moss hanging off them and in the dense Himalayan forest canopy, the trunks and forest floor receive little sunlight, Wrote our production p…

Nepal·village · hills

Landruk is a little village at 1,500 metres altitude, on the trail that leads to the Annapurna base camp.

flowers · forest

Of the over thirty species of Rhododendron in Nepal, the most renowned is Rhododendron arboreum, known as Gurans in Nepali.

birds · wildlife

This is an adult Asian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassina, a member of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

hills · forest

Rhododendrons signify the Himalaya like no other tree, not even the native Magnolia campelli of the eastern Himalaya. Especially with the massive yet breathtakingly beautiful Dhaulagiri in the backdrop.

forest · flowers

Rhododendron dominated trail passing through alpine forest to Deurali in Nepal. When we started trekking from the Ghandruk village towards Deurali our stop on the 1st day of the trek we got to cross a beautiful alpine forest.

forest · river

This kilometre-long serpentine village was built recently to cater to visitors. Before, it was just 'Banthanti', a rest house in the forest (Ban=Forest; Thanti=Rest House).

Nepal·forest

On a forest trail in Western Nepal, heading into the Annapurna Sanctuary, we came across large fern agglomerations on the forest oaks as well as flowering shrubs of Berberis aristata.

wildlife · forest

The chital or cheetal (Axis axis), also known as chital deer, spotted deer or axis deer, is a deer which commonly inhabits wooded regions of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and in small numbers in Pakistan.

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Hodgson's giant flying squirrel (Petaurista magnificus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in mountainous areas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and southern China.

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Commonly found in the tropical scrub and deciduous forests as well as the dense hedgerow plantations bordering farmlands of Southern India and Sri Lanka, the Slender Loris is a small, nocturnal primate.

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The slender Loris is a small nocturnal primate found only in the trafficker rain forests of southern India and Sri Lanka. They are able to live in wet and dry father's as well as lowland and highland forest.

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The green-backed tit (Parus monticolus) is a species of bird in the Paridae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and Vietnam.

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The kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos), belongs to the family Phasianidae. The kalij pheasants are distributed in foothills of Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Thailand. There are nine subspecies of these pheasants.

forest · birds

The Golden bush robin (Tarsiger chrysaeus) is a species of songbird in the family Muscicapidae, found in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia.

Nepal·forest · wildlife

The colourful Green-backed Tit feed on a variety of insects and seeds on the tree. The small Green-backed Tit is a very active bird with a black head, neck and bib extending as a line down the centre of its breast and belly and a conspicuou…

wildlife · forest

The dark grey-Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

wildlife · forest

The dark grey-Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

birds · forest

At around 10, 000 feet altitude in central Bhutan's Thrusmshingla National Park, we espied the Nutcracker, Variegated LaughingThrush and Asian brown Flycatcher in a lichen infested fir forest, among real wilderness, thick Himalayan forests…

forest · wildlife

The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The Sunderbans is approximately 10,000 Sq Km of which 60% is located in Bangladesh with the remainder in India.

highway · forest

Drive with us on this virtual road trip from to Dochula Pass in Bhutan. The convoy of the Chief of Army Staff can be seen passing by. He seemed to be heading to his village near Punakha.

livestock · forest

Motithang Takin Preserve, located in the Motithang district of Thimphu, Bhutan is a wildlife reserve area for takin, the National Animal of Bhutan.