As the fabled Mustang Valley of Nepal gets integrated into modernity, the ancient economy of transhumance is fading ...
The building, in traditional Tibetan style, surrounds a courtyard ... There is a museum dedicated to intricate yak butter sculptures of Buddhist deities in dazzling colors, and along the monastery ...
In the process, these yak and sheep farmers, used to living on the edge of subsistence, became wealthy beyond their imagination. Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area ...