Valley of Flowers Photos

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• Panorama of the valley floor, ringed by snow peaks: Naresh Chandra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Green meadows sweeping up to the peaks in early summer: Naresh Chandra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Snow-capped peaks above the valley: Kp.vasant · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A trekker dwarfed by the valley's sheer green walls: Rima Malvankar · CC BY 3.0 · source
• The valley opening out below a line of Himalayan peaks: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
• Glaciers at the head of the valley, breaking through cloud: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Pink balsam carpeting the meadow in July: Harshit SR · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan balsam in full bloom, September: Drkshetty · CC0 · source
• The valley in full summer green: Rohit Sharma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Balsam and wildflowers below jagged ridges: Rohit Sharma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Flower meadows stretching to the head of the valley: Rohit Sharma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Looking down the valley from the trail, with the Pushpawati below: Drkshetty · CC0 · source
• Greater Himalayan peaks framed by the gorge: Moksha Point · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
• Gauri Parbat rising out of the clouds: Naveensylvan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A rock spire above the upper meadows: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A footpath through the upper meadows towards a waterfall: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Cloud pouring down the slopes, with a forest hut below: Mahendra Vaswani · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Monsoon cloud filling the valley: John Muir Fan 86 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Cloud lifting off the peaks after rain: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Trekkers passing a giant boulder in the mist: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A cloud bank resting halfway up the valley wall: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The stone-paved trail climbing towards the peaks: Naresh Chandra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The trail cut into the cliff above the gorge: Naresh Chandra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The trail entering the valley: Yoginipatil · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Forest section of the trail: Manis73 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The bridge at Govindghat, where the trek begins: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• Crossing the Pushpawati on the old bridge: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• Mules and tea stalls on the trail to Ghangaria: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• A trekker in rain gear on the stone path: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Porters on the stone path through the meadow: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The Valley of Flowers National Park entrance gate: Rakesh92c · CC0 · source
• Morning light in the forest near the park entrance: Rakesh92c · CC0 · source
• A trail of white stones through the upper meadow: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Crossing a snow bridge over a stream early in the season: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Memorial to botanist Joan Margaret Legge, who died here in 1939: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Mules waiting to carry trekkers and pilgrims uphill: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A stream tunnelling under glacier ice at the valley's edge: Manas Jaitly · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The Pushpawati winding through the valley: Mahendra Vaswani · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A rushing stream at Ghangaria: Darshit2109 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The Pushpawati bridge, gateway to the valley: Alokprasad · CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
• The Pushpawati rushing out of the valley through a gorge: Alokprasad · CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
• A waterfall greeting trekkers at the start of the trail: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• A cascade tumbling down the green slopes: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• The Pushpawati in the Bhyundar valley: Virag Sharma · Public domain · source
• One of the many streams crossing the valley: Suhridam Roy, NCF · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A boulder stream falling through the meadows: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The Pushpawati and the trail, with the valley ahead: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• A stream racing down from the snow peaks: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
• Waterfalls threading down the valley walls: Belur Ashok from Secunderabad, India · CC BY 2.0 · source
• Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib reflected in the lake on a clear morning: SD Bhalla · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Hemkund lake under cloud and snow: Abhilash.Kunnel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• The clear glacial lake at Hemkund Sahib: Wiki maddymadhavan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Hemkund Sahib Gurudwara below the snow peaks: Wiki maddymadhavan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• One of the seven peaks around Hemkund lake: Kp.vasant · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Lokpal Lakshman Temple on the lakeshore: Rajat7878 · CC0 · source
• Hemkund lake from the ridge above: Vvkpentapati1991 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Pilgrims walking through a corridor cut in the Hemkund glacier: Panesar00888 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
• Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib, one of the highest gurdwaras in the world: Satbir 4 · Public domain · source
• Lakshman temple beside the lake at Hemkund: Sumita Roy Dutta · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Brahma Kamal on the slopes below Hemkund: Guptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Callindra principalis, a tiger moth: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Asian Cabbage White (Pieris canidia) puddling on wet soil: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A hedge blue resting on a leaf: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A hedge blue on a sunlit shrub: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Callindra principalis with wings spread: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Red-headed Bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala): Paulmathi Vinod · CC BY 4.0 · source
• Brahma Kamal (Saussurea obvallata), the state flower of Uttarakhand: Rohit Sharma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Yellow hooded lousewort (Pedicularis hoffmeisteri): Rohit Sharma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan thyme (Thymus linearis): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Graceful senecio (Senecio graciliflorus): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan rose (Rosa macrophylla): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Wallich's rhodiola (Rhodiola wallichiana): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Ruby cinquefoil (Potentilla atrosanguinea): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan cinquefoil (Potentilla cuneifolia): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Blue Jacob's ladder (Polemonium caeruleum): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Kashmir lousewort (Pedicularis punctata): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Two-horned lousewort (Pedicularis bicornuta): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan blue poppy (Meconopsis aculeata): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Fischer's ligularia (Ligularia fischeri): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Wallich's geranium (Geranium wallichianum): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Himalayan fleabane (Erigeron multiradiatus): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Grape-leaved anemone (Anemone vitifolia): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Evergreen rock jasmine (Androsace sempervivoides): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis triplinervis): Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• A blue Himalayan geranium: Manis73 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
• Inula flowering beside the stone trail: Rakesh92c · CC0 · source
• A pink wildflower on the way to the valley: Dolly mamgai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source