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.
Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
A solar collector to heat water.
Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
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.
Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
Drolma king bolete searching.
Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
Boletus edulis group seen above Nyachuka / Yajiang
Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
Neottia acuminata orchis,
Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods