- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- Our Sulfur shelf (Laetiporus sulpherus) cooked up.
Never did I have a sulfur shelf so tender that it melted on the tongue! - Panda (Ailuropodus melaonleuca) reclining in Chnegdu Panda Breeding Center
- Peak of Mt Chana Dorje towering in South Kham.
Named for the Buddha of Wisdom it reaches 5958 m / 19,547 ft - Phallus regulosus seen while visiting the Panda breeding station in Chengdu on the last day
- Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!
- Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) checking out flower at teh Panda center
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, an high altitude specialist
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
Beautiful high altitude specialist that provides powerful high altitude medicine. Lots of research on Rhodiola in Russia. - Ringha Gompa with prayer flags. We met lots of animals and mushrooms there.
- Searching for porcini
- Seasonal matsutake Camp on the Chaktreng-Shangrila border
- Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Shop keepers with dried Saussurea medusa et al., in Chinglish known as snow lotus