- 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 tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- 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., - 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. - A ten foot prayer mill
- Lilium lophophorum
- 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
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!
- We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.