- Seasonal matsutake Camp on the Chaktreng-Shangrila border
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Suillus cavipes, a larch symbiont apparently distributed all over the Northern Hemisphere wherever larch trees (Larix sp.) occur.
It is fun meeting old friends in exotic locations., - Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- A tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- Mt Chanadorje with pilgrims and prayer flags
- What a fruiting! But I ahve no idea what this is. I did not take an image of the pores.
- A Pheasant (Phasanius colchicus) crossing the road.
- Lilium lophophorum
- 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. - Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
It is traded and finds its way into export to Italy. You might have enjoyed it when buying dried porcini from Italy - A ten foot prayer mill
- Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Aletris nana
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- A traditional bridge, they becoming rare, concrete is just tougher!