- Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
- Xylaria sterile stomata #208a
- Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- White-capped River chat or Red start. They love hanging around creeks, but are very shy.
- What a place! Hiking up a narrow valley to find this jewel. Wetland meadows with Mt Chana Dorje in the back
- What a fruiting! But I ahve no idea what this is. I did not take an image of the pores.
- We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.
- Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
- Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
- Tsongu Gompa people Chanadorje in clouds
- Tsongu Gompa (Gelukpa tradition). Chinese tourists know it as Chongu Sii
- Tsongkhapa in Lithang Chode Gompa
- Trichaptum perrottetii #216 pores
- Tibetan farmers cutting their barley with scythes
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- The Garuda (Tibetan: Khyung), biding down on a snake, will be mounted behind the head of the Buddha statue.
- The city currently known as Shangri La,
formerly for 50 years Zhongdian and before that for many many centuries as Gyalthang, the royal plains by its Tibetan inhabitants. - The anamorph of Nectria pseudotrichia, formerly known as Tubercularia lateritia - close up
- The anamorph of Nectria pseudotrichia, formerly known as Tubercularia lateritia