Rajgundha

Why this icon Rajgundha's meadows have no road in and a sky full of stars. Source: zostel.com

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The story

A clear, moonless autumn night on the Rajgundha meadow: a traveller stands by a stone-ringed campfire, staff in hand, pointing up at the Milky Way arching over the dark Dhauladhar; two little tents glow on the grass, and far off, where the meadow rises to the forest, a few houses are lit.

Why this picture

Rajgundha is a hamlet of wood-and-stone houses on high meadows (about 2,500 m) in the upper Uhl valley, most often reached on foot from Billing. With no light pollution and the clear post-monsoon skies of late September and October, the Milky Way stands out over the Dhauladhar.

The motion

The stars and the Milky Way twinkle; a star falls; the fire flickers and its ring of warmth turns; windows light up; the deodars sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Rajgundha takes Valley Blue #4F87C7, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Rajgundha

A second scene: another true moment at Rajgundha, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A clear autumn morning on the Rajgundha meadow: two travellers in Gaddi wool walk with a flock of Gaddi sheep and goats across the grass under the Dhauladhar, a mule train comes down the trail from Thamsar into the oak-and-deodar forest, a Himalayan monal stands at the forest's edge, and firewood stands stacked beside a wood-and-stone house.

Why this moment

Rajgundha (about 2,500 m, upper Uhl valley) is a hamlet of old Kath-Kuni houses of wood and stone among grazing flocks and green slopes; mornings start with the first rays lighting the fields, and the snow peaks toward Thamsar Pass (about 4,700 m), on the Gaddi shepherds' route to Bara Bhangal, are in sight from the village. Mules carry loads on the trail, the Himalayan monal lives at the forest edges above 2,400 m, and firewood is stacked by every house against the winter. September and October bring the clear post-monsoon skies.

The sky wears Kullu shawl, from Himachal Pradesh.

The motion

Clouds cross the sky above the ridge; the mule train walks down the trail into the forest; the flock grazes, the far sheep wandering; the deodars and oaks sway; the sun's rays turn; the two travellers step. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Rajgundha in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Rajgundha, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

Stacked firewoodOf the place
Rajgundha's wood-and-stone houses are built for hard Himalayan winters, and stacked firewood stands by every one of them: split logs piled end-on under the eaves, the axe in the chopping block.
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Himalayan monalOf the place
The Himalayan monal, the pheasant of Rajgundha's oak-and-deodar forest edges above 2,400 m: the cock's metallic green crest of spatulate plumes, copper neck, purple-blue back, white rump and cinnamon tail.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Rajgundha 3

Detailed icons from the library that name Rajgundha among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Rajgundha alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Rajgundha's Zobus

Zobu in Rajgundha's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Rajgundha

Animals and birds the research behind Rajgundha's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Gaddi sheepOvis aries
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Himalayan monalLophophorus impejanus
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MuleEquus asinus x Equus caballus
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The kit

Everything Rajgundha needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Rajgundha’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Rajgundha’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG