- A blue Primula
- A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
- A cool lichen, may be a Lethariella, but that is just a guess...
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- A curious, hungry finch that ran between our feet
- 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.
- A group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
However in the front carved former pool table tops! - A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started. - A nearly completed Mandala made of sand
that will be destroyed at completion and dispersed into a river. What is it with these Buddhists worshiping impermanence? - A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
They were just as interested in us as we were in them! - A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
- A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- A solar collector to heat water.
Tibet has lots of sunshine between October and Mai. Winters a bone dry and sunny! - A spotted laughing thrush, most of the time they are very shy, but not in this sanctuary
- A ten foot prayer mill
- A tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - A traditional bridge, they becoming rare, concrete is just tougher!
- 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