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Snapshots: India's natural splendour

We invited you, our readers, to share images of your travels around the world and we were inundated with your emails.

Here is a fresh batch of responses:

First up is this beautiful shot of the morning rays in a forest. "I took this shot of early morning rays of the rising sun streaming through tall trees in a forest, when I went for a morning walk in Manali,” says Sridhar Iyer from Rockville, MD, USA

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

This water beauty titled ‘Monsoon Morning - Lotus in a pond’ is shared by Manoj Nair from Ahmedabad.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Khushi Khan shares this golden sunset taken at the Madhav National Park in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Fields of gold from Arayama Dutta Saikia, “A mustard field in Dehradun with a view of the Mussourie hills in the background,” he writes.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Here’s another picture from Sridhar Iyer taken on the way to Joshimat in Uttarakhand. “An unbelievable view of the road we travelled,” he says.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Aryama Dutta Saikia shares this picture of a parrot resting in a tree cavity on the grounds of the Agra Fort.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Here’s another photograph from Aryama of the Kempty Falls in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand that attracts thousands of visitors during the summers.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

Ashim Chakravarty shares this picture of Lava, “a memorable weekend destination.”

Lava is a charming hamlet located about 34 km from Kalimgpong in West Bengal and is the entry point to the Neora Valley National Park, a bird-watchers paradise.

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

This photograph is from Tarun Sharma who says, “The bike needs cooling too. Shot at Shiroda beach at Goa-Maharashtra border, wonderful stretch of unadulterated beach.”

Snapshots: India's natural splendour

We close this edition with this photograph of a yummy wild fruit found in the foothills of the Himalayas.

“The pic was taken at Nainital (Uttarakhand). It is a local fruit named kafal and is found during the summer season only,” writes Kailash Ruwali from Indore.

Would you like to share your memorable travel pictures with us?

Simply e-mail your pictures to travelpicsga@rediffmail.com (subject line: 'Memorable summer pics') -- we'll publish the most interesting ones right here on Rediff.com and in India Abroad. And make sure to include a little write-up of where you clicked the snap.

Disclaimer: The photographs featured in this series are, to the best of our knowledge, original entries submitted by readers. Rediff.com does not assume any responsibility for their originality.