- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- A tiny orchid seen Nyade
- A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- Suillus cavipes, a larch symbiont apparently distributed all over the Northern Hemisphere wherever larch trees (Larix sp.) occur.
- What a fruiting! But I ahve no idea what this is. I did not take an image of the pores.
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- Mt Chanadorje with pilgrims and prayer flags
- A Pheasant (Phasanius colchicus) crossing the road.
- Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,
- A ten foot prayer mill
- Lilium lophophorum
- A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
- Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!
- We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.