- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- 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.
- Goats and prayer flags
- The city currently known as Shangri La,
- A curious, hungry finch that ran between our feet
- Gentiana atunsiensis, one of my favorite Gentians. Loves to grow above 4200m!
- Gymnadenia orchidis - I love finding orchids! Check out my Tibetan Orchid page.
- Mt Chana Dorje in the back with Lungta / Wind horse prayer flags.
- Juncus allioides - No wetland junk is! Pretty nice flowers for a grass, eh?
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Lepista nuda, the Blewit growing along the path in Nyade, Chinese: Yading
- Lhaga holding Laetiporus sulpherus var miniatus
- A mobile matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) dealer who meets his clients along the hiighway.
- Seasonal matsutake Camp on the Chaktreng-Shangrila border
- Peak of Mt Chana Dorje towering in South Kham.
- Mt Chanadorje peak
- Mount Chanadorjes awesome peak reaching 5958 m