- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- 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., - A tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - 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.
- 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. - Lilium lophophorum
- A ten foot prayer mill
- 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 - Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!
- We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.