- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
- A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
- Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
- A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
I only know one spot in East Tibet with this beautiful Lily - Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
- Ajuga lupulina, the Pagoda Bugleweed!
- An orchid found in 4200m
- Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
- Brand new statue of Tsongkhapa in Lithang Gonpa, the founder of the Gelukpa tradition
- Tsongkhapa in Lithang Chode Gompa
- 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 mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
However in the front carved former pool table tops! - Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
- Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.
108 is the sacred number, since Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings are classified in 108 volumes. - A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
They were just as interested in us as we were in them! - Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM