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Tibetan Partridge in mid-winter Ladakh freeze, hardy pheasant family or pheasanidae like Ptarmigan type bird of the high Himalaya and trans-Himalayan regions.

West Bengal·aerial · old town

Wide open gardens and lawn at an old colonial style construction that has since been turned from a home into a hotel. What a crowded hill station town Kalimpong has become from once being a one horse town.

West Bengal·aerial · old town

Wide open gardens and lawn at an old colonial style construction that has since been turned from a home into a hotel. What a crowded hill station town Kalimpong has become from once being a one horse town.

West Bengal·hills · bazaar

As seen from Observatory Hill, Chauk Bazaar in Darjeeling, what a crowded hill station Dorjeeling has become! How many houses can that mountainside accommodate possibly, with the added pressure of water supply, traffic load and sewerage? We…

Himachal Pradesh·school · aerial

Could this be the highest school in India? Definitely the coldest, maybe! High altitude teaching takes place in this school compound in Hikkim village of Spiti valley, in this aerial view, as seen aerially in Himachal Pradesh's mid-winter s…

hills · village

A red post box for letters hangs outside this white-washed building in the trans Himalaya. India Post ahigh: The world's highest post office at Hikkim village in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti valley Hikkim village with world's highest post offic…

hills · wildlife

Bluethroat bird seen along the Chambal ravines and riverside: Himalayan migrant visits plains in winter. Bluethroat bird seen along the Chambal ravines and riverside: Himalayan migrant visits plains in winter

hills · snow

Kids play in the icy snow and slide down it on their shoes, while sitting down. Boys will be boys! Boys play in ice on a winter-time freezing mountain slope in Ladakh Boys will be boys! Boys play in ice on a winter-time freezing mountain sl…

snow · hills

The winter in Ladakh is almost a waiting game - waiting for spring to arrive. The people almost live in dormancy, with nothing to grow, and subsisting on the effort and cropping of the summer and autumn season.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · highway

Narrow zigzag roads of Spiti valley, jeep supplies villages in deep winter snowpack, in trans Himalaya Driving in a Himalayan winter: A village road snakes through a snowy landscape in winter-time Spiti's mountains, leading to high altitude…

Uttarakhand·farmland · hills

A khurmani or khumani fruit tree in early unripe fruiting mode. Apricot tree with unripe fruit on it, in an Uttarkashi village orchard in the western Himalaya.

Himachal Pradesh·highway · snow

Driving in a Himalayan winter: A village road snakes through a snowy landscape in winter-time Spiti's mountains, leading to high altitude countryside, mountain villages and frontier country.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · aerial

Himalayan Ibex with huge heads of horns, as seen in this aerial view of a Spiti cliffy landscape, in deep winter freeze, sheltering and living along the cliffs and rock faces of the inner Himalaya.

birds · hills

Seen in the central Indian open plains are a Long-tailed or Bay-backed Shrike, a Common Babbler and a a spunky energetic Himalayan Black lored Tit.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Perhaps the world's highest bridge in mid-winter freeze, at Chicham village, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India. A tracking aerial shot of a Mahindra car approaching Kibber - Chicham bridge over a deep snow pack covered landscape and road.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · aerial

Himachal Pradesh aerial view of higher hills leading up to the snow peaks, above the apple belt and in the upper thick growth conifer zone of mixed Deodar / Cedar and blue ine with occasional interspersing of oak and Rhododendron in the nul…

river · hills

Bateshwar Temples in Uttar Pradesh, along the Yamuna River and near the Chambal valley, Atal Behari Vajpayee's birth place.

West Bengal·aerial · hills

Kalimpong - Darjeeling hills: Aerial view of terrace farming amid the mountains of the Kalimpong Darjeeling West Bengal belt of nurseries and farming zones, with home stays and small hotel residences for tourists, as seen aerially, from the…

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

Stealing magpies or crow kin? Red-billed Blue Magpies are smart attractive long-tailed hill birds seen here around Mussoorie, at wildfilmsindia conservation lands.

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · hills

Paddy fields and monsoon magic in India: Rainy season profusion brings bounties aplenty for South Asia.

forest · hills

Terrace farming aerial view of Uttarakhand middle hills, with snow peaks afar, and pine forests galore Terrace farming aerial view of Uttarakhand middle hills, with snow peaks afar, and pine forests galore

West Bengal·railway · hills

A man walks on the train track with a red LPG gas cylinder on his head as the train prepares to depart for Ghum.

West Bengal·railway · hills

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway creates plumes of smoke: DHR toy train chugs along with steam power