Road Cycling 24 Dec 2019 4:19 PM (5 years ago)

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Trekking Adventures 24 Dec 2019 4:18 PM (5 years ago)

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Walking Holidays 24 Dec 2019 4:16 PM (5 years ago)

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Botanical Trips 24 Dec 2019 4:15 PM (5 years ago)

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Bird Watching 24 Dec 2019 4:13 PM (5 years ago)

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Cultural Tours 24 Dec 2019 9:17 AM (5 years ago)

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Himalayan black bear in Bhutan 26 May 2019 11:47 AM (5 years ago)

This female Himalayan black bear was with her two cubs on the other side of the valley at Nikachu on one of my journeys to my hometown in east. Unfortunately, i couldn’t put her cubs in my frame. Anyhow, it is said that the female bears are so vicious while with the cubs. In Bhutan, during the summertime when people get into forest to collect mushrooms, some gets brutally mauled!

Himalayan black bear in Bhutan

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Pika 30 Apr 2019 9:13 AM (5 years ago)

In Bhutan, pikas are native to cold climates of rocky mountainsides above 4000m. It’s a small mammal among a few others that could live at such heights. But what it lacks in size, it makes up in its smartness. Despite the small size, pikas are very smart that they stores food in their burrows to eat during the long cold winter. They also knows how to collect hay and soft twigs in autumn to have their burrows nice and warm in winter. Pikas prefer rocky slopes and graze on a range of plants, mostly grasses, flowers and young stems.

In some of the pictures depicted here, pika is seen munching the leaves of Rheum nobile and Saussurea gossypiphora

Ochotona daurica in Bhutan

Pika in Bhutan

Ochotona daurica

Pika

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Rheum nobile 29 Apr 2019 9:48 AM (5 years ago)

Rheum nobile or Sikkim rhubarb is a giant herbaceous plant, native to the Himalayas that grows at around 4000m – 4800m, quite often in inaccessible locations. With the height of about 1 – 2 m, they stand tall and handsome above all other herbs and shrubs in the screes, cliffs and alpine meadows . It is visible from miles away across the valleys when in flower in June and July. In Bhutan, it is known as Chuka Meto.

The pictures posted here are some of my favourite shots of this majestic plant!

Rheum nobile in Bhutan

Flowers of Bhutan

Botanical trip to Bhutan

Trekking in Bhutan

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Poppies of Bhutan 28 Feb 2019 9:33 AM (6 years ago)

I consider myself lucky when I take a look back to all those plant expeditions that I had been privileged to lead, all through those places of unsurpassed beauty in the high Himalayas of Bhutan over the years as a mountain guide, plant enthusiast, an amateur photographer and as the owner of the host tour company – Bhutan Excursions.

So here, I am sharing some of my pictures of Meconopsis species which I have seen and photographed so far in Bhutan. Perhaps, some can use these pictures as reference for studies or simply enjoy the beauty of those plants through these pictures or if there is someone out there that would love to have to show them these jewels in their natural habitat – it is us you should come to!

Latin name: Meconopsis Higher Classification: Poppies Rank: Genus Family: Papaveraceae Kingdom: Plantae