Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
An orchid found in 4200m
Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
A solar collector to heat water.
Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
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.
Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
Drolma king bolete searching.
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods