Fifty shades of yak

 And you thought they were just big hairy cows!

[There are] yaks [male yak], naks [female yak], cow-hybrids [cow x yak], cows and zopkyos [ox x nak]. Most of the households own livestock, primarily yaks and cow-hyrbids. Cow-hybrids are used for milk, and yaks and hybrids are used for transportation. Yaks and naks are also used for wool.

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Close encounters of the feline kind.  Some readers may find some of the photos in this blog distressing.

On Wednesday 19^th we left Thame for Namche Bazaar.  After a stopover there to refuel on chocolate cake and apple pie in the heavenly Namche Bakery, we set out the next day for our new destinations.  Khunde and Khumjung are 330m/1,000ft m above Namche Bazzar at around 3,730m/12,300ft.  We’d heard that there’d been some recent livestock losses there so we were keen to check them out.