a land of Tibet

Through My Eyes

We're in our coracle on Nakpak Tso near Gyeltangteng and the Gyeltang chu river! Our Footprint Tibet handbook also calls it Napa lake. The Gyeltang chu plain is actually part of Dechen and our Footprint Tibet handbook describes it as an incredibly wondrous place for plants especially healing herbs! Among them is the Tibetan blue poppy a member of the Meconopsis family. I actually found a place that sells the seed for them when I was trying to see what they looked like. It really does look like the sky! We could get some seeds and grow them here I think beautiful one!

If you click on the picture we can look at the site together where I found it. Actually other flowers of the Meconopsis grow on the Gyeltang plain along with many other wildflowers and other medicinal herbs. As I mentioned in the poem there are seven thousand of them! There are even 200 varieties of rhododendron here and azelias. Anyway, Nakpak Tso is home to the nomads so as we know well, the large herds of yak aren't far away! The altitude is only 3344 meters about 11,000 feet so life here is far less harsh. Along with it's location on the trade routes between the Chuzi Gangdruk and Burma this probably explains why there are lots of different peoples here! The lake is also the winter home for the migratory black necked crane. There are also a lot of windmills here although our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't mention what they are used for. I'd guess it's for pumping water for the Yak although they may get much of their water from Nakpak Tso or the Gyeltang chu. Gyeltang is known for it's summer horse festival which our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates has been occurring ever since the 1600s the time of the equestrian master Topden. There are Tibetans named Topden even now! I haven't found out if the festival was begun or simply inspired by Topden though. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one!

* courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for

the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.

( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)


	Through My Eyes * We're in our coracle on Nakpak Tso near Gyeltangteng and the Gyeltang chu river! Our Footprint Tibet handbook also calls it Napa lake. The Gyeltang chu plain is actually part of Dechen and our Footprint Tibet handbook describes it as an incredibly wondrous place for plants especially healing herbs! Among them is the Tibetan blue poppy a member of the Meconopsis family. I actually found a place that sells the seed for them when I was trying to see what they looked like. It really does look like the sky! We could get some seeds and grow them here I think beautiful one! If you click on the picture we can look at the site together where I found it. Actually other flowers of the Meconopsis grow on the Gyeltang plain along with many other wildflowers and other medicinal herbs. As I mentioned in the poem there are seven thousand of them! There are even 200 varieties of rhododendron here and azelias. Anyway, Nakpak Tso is home to the nomads so as we know well, the large herds of yak aren't far away! The altitude is only 3344 meters about 11,000 feet so life here is far less harsh. Along with it's location on the trade routes between the Chuzi Gangdruk and Burma this probably explains why there are lots of different peoples here! The lake is also the winter home for the migratory black necked crane. There are also a lot of windmills here although our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't mention what they are used for. I'd guess it's for pumping water for the Yak although they may get much of their water from Nakpak Tso or the Gyeltang chu. Gyeltang is known for it's summer horse festival which our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates has been occurring ever since the 1600s the time of the equestrian master Topden. There are Tibetans named Topden even now! I haven't found out if the festival was begun or simply inspired by Topden though. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one! * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje. ( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)