The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.

Drolma king bolete searching.

Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.

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.

Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers

A solar collector to heat water.

Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.

Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.

Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)

A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.

Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.

Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang

Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!

An orchid found in 4200m

Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka

A nearly completed Mandala made of sand

A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.

Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.

Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.

A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.