#gujurat

Some architecture from the area:

jali, Sidi Saiyyed Mosque   1573CE

Des femmes du Gujurat en voyage dans le sud de l'Inde. Jupes, brassières et longs foulards remplacent les saris. Notez les gros bracelets et la petite clé attachée à un petit cordon autour de la taille.

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A striped hyena lopes across the dry plains of the Rann.

© Dhritiman Mukherjee

Rann of Kutch

The Rann of Kutch has one of the largest salt deserts in the world. Dhritiman Mukherjee spent 170 days photographing its unique flora and fauna.

The Rann of Kutch in Gujurat, India, has one of the largest salt deserts in the world but experiences great change when the monsoon arrives. It is roughly 7,505 square kilometres in size, and includes a variety of ecosystems, and endangered and endemic wildlife.

Desert fox cubs are seen during late winter.

The greater hoopoe-lark is a passerine bird which makes its nest on the ground.

The Indian courser is a species of courser found in mainland South Asia.

Short-eared owls nest on the ground between March and June.

India wild asses once ranged from south-east Iran to western India.

Bar-headed geese winter hold the record for flying at the highest elevation (6,400 m), when passing over the Himalayas during migration.