Part 79 - Route along the Tulung Chu via Chuna to Dyuri; notes on locals and hot springs

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SUMMARY:
Notes a method to store green seeds using a CO2-filled soda syphon bottle and describes dramatic cliffed terrain with poor flowering. Describes friendly local yak herders resembling Takpas and details the path along the Tulung Chu with numerous river crossings to Dyuri (opposite Nyuri), correcting the map location of very hot springs to the left bank above Dyuri.

CONTENT:
its seeds green, so they will be put in a bottle of the soda syphon, empty of water, but full of CO2 squirted into the bottle. When it cleared up today, we got rather a surprise. Instead of the plain we expected here, we found sheer cliffs everywhere, rising to 2000 or 4000 ft from the valley bed - a fine sight. But flowers poor. The locals are nice people, out to please. They are more like Takpas than Tibetans, wear the pressed felt hat, but with 10 or 12 drip tips instead of the Takpas four or so. They have no fields here and no food of their own is grown here. They are purely yak herds, exchange their milk and yak produce for grain from down the valley near Tawang.

Path crosses the side stream by a bridge at camp and so down the R. bank of the Tulung Chu. Thence crosses the main river twice before Chuna. After Chuna the river is crossed for 8 times. Path first over open hillside, then through jungle, finishing on the L bank where Dyuri is situated at m 8. Nyuri is exactly opposite. The sides of the valley are extremely precipitous. The hot springs (half a mile above Dyuri) marked on the map should be on the left bank, not the R. as shown. Both banks. The water is too hot to hold the hand in, where it