Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
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.
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
A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.
A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
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