The trek also offers diverse fauna and flora and a good opportunity to spot blue sheep.
In the Asia Field, you will feel your eyes are not big enough to take in the camels, yaks, fallow deer, sika deer, blue sheep and springbok capering in all directions.
Weather and punishing terrain restricted our movements much beyond Tahawndam, but we had already found three large mammal species not previously known to live in Myanmar: blue sheep, black muntjac (barking deer), and stone marten.
Their yaks share these high, sunny pastures with blue sheep and plump marmots.
The shrunken carcass of a blue sheep lies in the rocks.