hills

hills · forest

The Wild mountain goat of the Himalaya, known as the Goral, is a widespread resident of steep rock faces, cliffs with grassy knolls and thick forested scree slopes.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Life among cliffs, Oak forests and Berberis aristata bushes, this is truly the good life for this Goral or wild mountain goat of the Himalaya, living under the protection of the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Mussoorie, Uttarak…

flowers · farmland

These pleasing Michaelmas daisies are a garden variety but have got naturalized and grown wild at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

The wild Kaith or Himalayan pear is a favourite of many Himalayan birds that visit it for nectar. Others visit it for the fruit which ripens after the monsoon season.

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

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

At the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, a pair of Goral or wild mountain goats stare out across a rocky cliff-top, at possible leopard movement in the Oak forest above.

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

A wonderful establishing shot of the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet estate, flying in over the main entrance gate, over our private road and up to the bhooth bangla or Haunted House of Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · hills

At the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, a pair of Goral or wild mountain goats stare out across a rocky cliff-top, at possible leopard movement in the Oak forest above.

flowers · hills

A melange of spring-time flora from the middle Himalaya. The fresh leaf buds on the Rhododendrum arboreum coincide with the blooms, in this video, and that is rather unusual, for the leaf buds are supposed to appear post flowering.

hills · forest

A rainbow comes visiting at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya while we were enjoying the rain in the Jabbarkhet orchard in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

From the private property of WildFilmsIndia at Jabbarkhet Estate, the view is surreal. As seen in the video, the white building is the Jaypee Residency Manor overlooking the plains of Dehradun and the 'Rispana' river.

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For long abandoned and not lived in, the Haunted House of the Himalaya will soon be transformed into the nerve center of the wildfilmsindia conservation and botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

The Gangotri peak wall and Jaonli as seen from wildfilmsindia's protected forests at Jabbarkhet in Garhwal, near Landour.

monsoon · forest

Watering time for the trees and forest, as clouds roll in at dusk! The monsoon is ripe for arrival and water shedding over the Water Towers of the world - the Himalaya! Monsoon clouds roll in over wildfilmsindia forests at Jabbarkhet, Uttar…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Himalayan Cedar forests or Cedrus deodara at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Landour, Uttarakhand. Black-capped or Rufous Sibia and Red-headed Tits are calling.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Rain clouds swirl in over the lower hills of Mussoorie, and up to the wildfilmsindia forests at Motidhar and Jabbarkhet, as post spring summer time rains hit the hill stations forests and hills, in a wonderful respite from the dry season.

Uttarakhand·livestock · hills

What fun to see the sheep scatter when they come across a car around the bend, as they are herded from Batagad bazaar down the Jabbarkhet road, towards Musoorie on the lower bypass road.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Early winter flowers turn brown after the monsoon profusion, as they cover the slopes of Pari Tibba in Motidhar, in wildfilmsindia protected forests around Mussoorie.

forest · hills

Our wildfilmsindia team was subject to a massive hail storm that threw hail stones the size of golf balls down on our wildlife sanctuary, battering our spring flowering plants and trees, killing off the thousands of daffodil blooms and all…

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A sudden high intensity hail storm dumped down hail stones the size of golf balls onto the spring-time flowering daffodils and Irises and reduced them to green pulp in a matter of minutes.

forest · hills

The cartographers said there was no peak where Hari Dang saw and climbed around Jaonli, until his Doon School group actually climbed it, in the 1960's, for the first time! Nag Tibba can also be seen from Jabbarkhet, covered as it is with wi…

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

From our western Himalayan conservation field station, one looks right out to the Himalaya from each window of our rundown old godown cottage! The view makes one's day for it comprises of the peaks of Jaonli, Rudragaira and the Gangotri wal…

hills · flowers

Imagine being in the Himalaya and being subjected to the largest hail stones you ever saw, heavy thunder and powerful lightning? We enjoy such weather at wildfilmsindia, even if it kills all our spring flowering plants! First the size of ma…