- A tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- Seasonal matsutake Camp on the Chaktreng-Shangrila border
- Coprinopsis atramentaria, the ink cap or Tipplers bane, which is also distributed in Europe and North America
- Our Sulfur shelf (Laetiporus sulpherus) cooked up.
Never did I have a sulfur shelf so tender that it melted on the tongue! - A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started. - At first Drolma was a bit closed and standish apart.
But she really got into mushrooms and kept bringing specimens. - Lepista nuda, the Blewit growing along the path in Nyade, Chinese: Yading
- Gentiana atunsiensis, one of my favorite Gentians. Loves to grow above 4200m!
- Peak of Mt Chana Dorje towering in South Kham.
Named for the Buddha of Wisdom it reaches 5958 m / 19,547 ft - Mt Chana Dorje in the back with Lungta / Wind horse prayer flags.
- A cool lichen, may be a Lethariella, but that is just a guess...
- Close up of the blue Primula sp.
- Androsace, a member of the Primulaceae
- Shop keepers with dried Saussurea medusa et al., in Chinglish known as snow lotus
- Drolma and Drolma, Tibetan local guides.
- A curious, hungry finch that ran between our feet