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- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,
Khampas are people from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet, these days divided and ruled under Tibet AR's Qamdo/Chamdo Prefecture, Sichuan's Ganzi/Kandze & Ngawa/Aba TAP, Yunnan's Deqing/Dechen TAP and parts of Qinghai's Yushu/Jyekundo TAP = Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. - Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Nyade as the local Tibetans used to know the place, Yading in Chinese.
Nearly every house is a tourist hotel. What location. - Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.
108 is the sacred number, since Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings are classified in 108 volumes. - Nilgiri Thar herd Eravikulam
Nilgiri Thar herd in Eravikulam NP, Western Ghats, Kerala - Nilgiri Langur Trachypithecus johnii Walking
Nilgiri Langur (Trachypithecus johnii) walking on a branch - Neottia acuminata orchis,
a myco-heterotroph orchid found in the matsutake forest in Nyarong. Reminds me of Allotropa virgata aka Candy stick orchid feeding of American Matsutake. - Mushroom dealer with Himalayan Gypsies (Rozites emodensis) and Leccinum.
- Mushroom dealer in Dartsendo with a Tricholoma species looking quite a bit like T. saponaceum, but it is not the Soap knight.
- Mushroom dealer in Dartsendo / Kangding holding King boletes
- Mt Chenrezi named for the Buddha of Compasion it reaches 6032 m / 19790 ft
- Mt Chanadorje with pilgrims and prayer flags
- Mt Chanadorje peak
- Mt Chana Dorje in the back with Lungta / Wind horse prayer flags.
- Mountain scenery on the Deqen / Garze Prefectures border, Chinese know as Xiao Shu Shan
- Mount Chanadorjes awesome peak reaching 5958 m
- Maybe a gorgeous Mycena seen in Pampadum Shola
Mycena sp. in Pampadum Shola around 2000m asl right on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border - Matsutake collector with their heavy harvest waiting until his buddy comes by motorcycle to fetch him.