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- The city currently known as Shangri La,
formerly for 50 years Zhongdian and before that for many many centuries as Gyalthang, the royal plains by its Tibetan inhabitants. - Goats and prayer flags
- Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Be Sha sales woman. Be sha is the Tibetan name for pine mushrooms, but means oak mushroom.
In Tibet they are associated with evergreen oaks. - A basket full of King boletes (Boletus edulis sensu lato)
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- Great Hot springs near Shangri La
- A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks. - Matsutake collector with their heavy harvest waiting until his buddy comes by motorcycle to fetch him.
- 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 tiny flowered, but great colored Sedum found in 4500m.
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
Beautiful high altitude specialist that provides powerful high altitude medicine. Lots of research on Rhodiola in Russia. - Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- At first Drolma was a bit closed and standish apart.
But she really got into mushrooms and kept bringing specimens. - Nyade as the local Tibetans used to know the place, Yading in Chinese.
Nearly every house is a tourist hotel. What location. - A spotted laughing thrush, most of the time they are very shy, but not in this sanctuary
- Drolma and Drolma, Tibetan local guides.
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- Androsace, a member of the Primulaceae
- Coprinopsis atramentaria, the ink cap or Tipplers bane, which is also distributed in Europe and North America