- A basket full of King boletes (Boletus edulis sensu lato)
- A big Amanita hemibapha, the Himalayan Caesar, a choice edible with two eggs that are twice as big as a regular egg
- 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 improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks. - A lot of big Himalayan Caesars!
- 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 mobile matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) dealer who meets his clients along the hiighway.
- 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 Pheasant (Phasanius colchicus) crossing the road.
- 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!