hills

hills · highway

The Kumaon Regimental Center Golf course among the tall pine trees of Ranikhet is only open for Members. Caddies walk behind the golfers carrying their golf bags and clubs.

hills · snow

Fantastic Himalayan vistas as seen from near Kanchenjunga Base Camp trek in frozen snowed-under spring-time conditions in Sikkim. The milky way can be seen in clear skies from Base Camp.

aerial · hills

Teams from different villages arrive for the stoning festival with stone pelting and throwing of apples and pears.

village · bazaar

Rural Himalayan market in Devidhura town of Champawat, where villagers come to stock up from the wild and remote regions of Kumaon in Uttarakhand. Excited villagers at a local village festive haat market.

village · hills

Abandoned bhoot gaon or Ghost village of the Western Himalaya - a lovely idyllic hamlet lost in time This beautiful idyllic Himalayan village is now an abandoned Bhoot gaon in Champawat of Uttarakhand The fields have run fallow, and the hou…

flowers · hills

The Golden Leaves Cafe in Kumaon with a deodar-tea garden forest-plantation interface. As the monsoon mists swirl around, have a look at one of the remant tea estates of the western Himalaya, in Kumaon.

hills · festival

Himalayan people crowd together at Devidhura Festival in Champawat, Uttarakhand, for stone pelting occasion.

village · music

This beautiful idyllic Himalayan village is now an abandoned Bhoot gaon in Champawat of Uttarakhand The fields have run fallow, and the houses long since falling apart ever since the villagers left forever this abandoned ghost village in th…

Himachal Pradesh·highway · hills

Girls walk around on the maket streets of this 1990's era Himachal hill station view: Archival footage of Mall Road in Manali in olden days, with old buses in operation. Olden days' Shimla hill station town.

temple · river

This temple hill floated down with the river in flood and landed mis-stream! Shiv Mandir still survives at Belkhet village in Champawat, Uttarakhand, in the western Himalaya.

temple · hills

Baleshwar Group of Temples in Champawat town of Kumaon, Uttarakhand : Ancient temple complex with intricate stone carvings in the Himalaya.

hills · monsoon

A remote mountain school built on a sloping hill in Kumaon. Champawat in Uttarakhand in the throes of monsoon clouds, rain and greenery A typical western Himalayan village in the monsoon season, with much greenery emanating from the rice fi…

hills · aerial

Crowded Champawat town in Uttarakhand is a concrete jungle of coloured buildings all cheek by jowl Urban concretization in the center and along the fringes of Champawat in Kumaon. India is crowding the Himalayan foothills.

aerial · hills

A typical western Himalayan village in the monsoon season, with much greenery emanating from the rice fields.

aerial · hills

Deodar or Himalayan Cedar trees on the fringes of Lohaghat in Kumaon. India is crowding the Himalayan foothills: Lohaghat town in Uttarakhand's Champawat in aerial view With the monsoon clouds covering up the headroom in the sky with a dark…

festival · village

Colourfully attired people of Uttarakhand begin to gather at the Bagwal Festival in Devidhura, Champawat.

hills · aerial

An aerial view of Dhaun village in Uttarakhand state in the Western Himalaya, with winding hill roads and green cultivation all around.

forest · aerial

Thick forest along the Sarada river along Tanakpur's sub-Himalayan Bastiya forest belt in Champawat district of Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.

village · festival

A female medical team of nurses and doctors on standby at the Devidhura Bagwal festival in Champawat, when two sets of villagers hit each other with apples and pears, and ultimately with stones and rocks! Kumaoni villagers of the western Hi…

festival · village

Kumaoni villagers of the western Himalaya smile and wave to our camera from the air, as our drone hovers over the massive crowds waiting to see the stone slugging fest.

hills · aerial

With the monsoon clouds covering up the headroom in the sky with a dark blanket of warm impending rain, India seems to be crowding the Himalayan middle hills and foothills, as seen over Lohaghat town in Uttarakhand's Champawat, in this aeri…

flowers · hills

As the monsoon mists swirl around, have a look at one of the remant tea estates of the western Himalaya, in Kumaon.

forest · hills

Dense monoculture deodar forest in Lohaghat, Champawat district, Uttarakhand. Cedrus deodara is the cedar of the western Himalaya. See interfaces of cultivation and forest in the middle hills of Uttarakhand state.