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- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, an high altitude specialist
- Asco cluster Nyade
- Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
- A nearly completed Mandala made of sand
- A species of Boletus or Xerocomus
- Tsongu Gompa people Chanadorje in clouds
- Gymnadenia orchidis - I love finding orchids! Check out my Tibetan Orchid page.
- Juncus allioides - No wetland junk is! Pretty nice flowers for a grass, eh?
- Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.
- Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
- A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.