hills

flowers · monsoon

Can someone confirm if this is Commelina paludosa or another species? There are more than 170 species worldwide, including Commelina virginica, Commelina erecta, Commelina benghalensis, Commelina caroliniana, Commelina diffusa, Commelina c…

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Lovely sunset and clouds over the mountains to the west, over Benog and Bhadraj, as seen from Landour. Dehra dun can be seen clearly to the south of Mussoorie and the Shivalik hills to the south of Dehradun are clearly visible as well.

wildlife · forest

Kalsubai Harishchandragad Wildlife Sanctuary spreads from Kalasubai to Harischandragad in Akole tehsil of Ahmednagar district. This area is part of Sahyadri hill ranges.

river · highway

Spectacular views of the beautiful nature enriched Western Ghats in Maharashtra. Malshej Ghat (माळशेज घाट) is a mountain pass in the Western Ghats range in the Pune district of Maharashtra, India.

Arunachal Pradesh·festival · farmland

The Heritage Tour takes the visitors to the famous Ziro Putu, a hillock near the airstrip and Old Ziro township.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

After the monsoon rains have hit the hills, what were once bare tree trunks just a few weeks before are now festooned with a profusion of fern species. This is a particularly productive Toon tree in Landour, Mussoorie.

hills · monsoon

Sydney Point is beautifully placed on a tiny hillock overlooking and facing the lush green Krishna Valley.

river · hills

Frothing brown monsoon water tumbles down Sharavathi River, which leaps off a cliff to form Jog Falls' cataracts. Jog Falls (ಗೇರುಸೊಪ್ಪೆ ಜೋಗ) is the second-highest plunge waterfall in India.

river · hills

Jog Falls is created by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 m (830 ft), making it the second-highest plunge waterfall in Asia after the Nohkalikai Falls with a height of 335 m (1100 ft) in Meghalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills

Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country; owing to this geography it was considered the highest known mountain in the world until computations on Dhaulagiri by western surveyors in 1808.…

forest · hills

Dense forest of Uttarakhand during monsoon. Uttarakhand has a great diversity of flora and fauna. It has a recorded forest area of 34651 km2 which constitutes 65% of the total area of the state.

flowers · hills

Filmed in 1994, so truly one from the archives! In the background, one can see Rhododendron anthopogon flowering in clumps of shrubs.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

It's raining among the oak and deodar trees of Landour, while garden-escaped Dahlias flower on the rocky outcrops - in red, yellow and white. A Maruti van lunges forward, on the rain-drenched misty roads.

hills · monsoon

Located on the route to Mahabaleshwar, Parsi Point in Panchganj offers splendid views of the Krishna Valley and the waters of the Dhom Dam.

Uttarakhand·hills · bazaar

View of Landour from the Doma's Inn turning, where the Woodstock Tehri road joins the Landour road going down to Landour bazaar, from the hawa ghar.

Meghalaya·hills · monsoon

School children, mother walk with an umbrella during a rainy day in Shillong. Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya, one of the smallest states in India and home to the Khasis. It is the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Himalayan ferns in the monsoon season in Landour, Uttarakhand. In the monsoon season in Landour, ferns are a very common sight and they can be seen growing on almost every tree, rock-face and hillside.

Arunachal Pradesh·festival · farmland

Ziro is situated in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, 167 kms from the capital Itanagar. It can be reached via road from Guwahati or Dibrugarh towns in Assam.

Meghalaya·monsoon · hills

Life goes on for the people who inhabit one the world's wettest towns- Cherrapunji. Taxis are parked at their usual spots waiting for passengers. People, buildings, roads get washed up.

hills · monsoon

College girls enjoying rain in Panchgani Panchgani is a hill station and municipal council in Satara district in Maharashtra, India.

river · hills

Fantastic establishing shot for monsoon weather and season in the Western Ghats/southern geological complex of India. A truly ethereal view of one of India's finest waterfall complexes! Time lapse shot with clouds swirling around...

Meghalaya·monsoon · river

Kids trying to catch fish from a stream in Sohra, Meghalaya, India. Sohra, previously known as Cherrapunjee, a Sub-Division in the East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya, is set upon a plateau on the southern slopes of the state.

Uttarakhand·hills

Pre-monsoon storm in teak trees as seen from Ananda in the sub-Himalayan low hills Narendranagar town, Uttarakhand, India, and the hills towards Rishikesh in the plains below, where the Ganga / Ganges river, enters the plains of north India…