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Kashgar Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kashgar
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Yambu Grand Hotel Kashgar
5 reviews -
Xin Long Hotel Kashgar
3 reviews
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Renmin Hotel Kashgar
1 review
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Tuman River Hotel Kashgar
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Qini Bagh Hotel Kashgar
33 reviews -
Seman Hotel Kashgar
21 reviews
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Wen Zhou Mansion Kashgar
4 reviews -
Kashgar Hotel
1 review
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Overseas Chinese Hotel Kashgar
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Qianhai Hotel Kashgar
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Travel Blogs from Kashgar, China
Mud-brick Mosques in Kashgar's Old City
This is a top pick! ... . Score! So, without further argument, the guide, whose name I wish I'd gotten, led us into the twisting streets of Kashgar's Old City. A haphazard-looking mass of old and new buildings made of mud brick, red brick, wood and some cement, the ...
I'll have three donkeys and a camel, please
This is a top pick! ... until the sun got hot enough to convince us to relocate. Our next stop was the cooler, covered avenues of the Kashgar Grand Bazaar. Reputedly once the largest market in Asia, it's still a fun though scaled-back experience. The sidewalks outside were ...
The Silk Road:Kashgar and the New Silk Road
This is a top pick! ... and sidewalks, Chinese people, Uighur people--these are some of the obvious changes between Pakistan and China. I visited Kashgar's immense Sunday Market, the Kashgar International Bazaar, drawing people from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan just ...
Olympic paranoia
This is a top pick! ... ' of mud and brick buildings, and rows of traders, artisans, carpenters, metalworkers, eateries, carpet sellers. And the Kashgar market itself. Hundreds and hundreds of small stalls selling everything from Uighur handmade knives, to Afghan carpets, ...
Food in China
This is a top pick! The food in China has been surprisingly good, indeed it has been quite a highlight. It is easy to get a local type of flat bread for breakfast & other than that there has been a healthily high vegetable & tofu content in the food. The Chinese are highly ...
Chinese Bureaucracy
This is a top pick! As I was about to run out of time on my visa, I went to the Public Security Bureau to apply for a visa extension. The Lonely Planet said that two PSBs existed and that one was friendlier than the other. I went to the friendlier but further away one, so ...
What it's good for
This is a top pick! ... info off people travelling in the opposite direction 3. There are those, like myself, who are at the end of their Chinese adventure. Kashgar might also prove to be the last chance for me to have a few beers in a nice outdoor environment on these ...
Market Comparison
This is a top pick! ... . Had I gone to the Songpan Horse Trek with this expectation level, I might have enjoyed it much more. Similarly, had I gone to the Kashgar Sunday Market with the expectation level I had for the Songpan Horse Trek, I might not be writing this in such a ...
More Bureaucracy
This is a top pick! I went to the post office to mail a couple of photo CDs. First I was sent to a counter to buy an envelope. I then took my unsealed envelope with contents to the sending counter, where I was sent to a different area to send something international. On ...
Travels along the silk road
This is a top pick! ... town of Kashgar. The small hotel has a beautiful courtyard but the rooms and toilettes are not glorious, to say the least. Kashgar evokes thousand year old memories of silk road trading. Unfortunately, many of the original Old Town houses have been ...
Wow. I can't believe we actually made it this far.
This is a top pick! ... (especially from Pakistan) who stick to their 3hrs behind Beijing. A dinner date can be anywhere between 6pm and midnight. Kashgar seems a nice city though. Pretty friendly locals, quiet and clean. But its not quite the silk-road Kasghar of the ...
The place that first got me thinking about China
... ("Somehow I thought it would be bigger."), but the time we spent at and around Shipton's Arch, in the mountains northwest of Kashgar, was every bit the breathtaking, word-defying, "like, wow, man" experience I'd pictured. This time we did not take ...
China at last
... us. Since we arrived in Kashgar we haven't stopped. The first night we celebrated the ability to drink beer again. Now Kashgar is west China and bloody miles away from Beijing but all of China operates on Beijing time so we suddenly jumped 2 hours ...
The blessed Olympic torch causes us more problems.
... but events are overtaking me. My roomie Nic has just come from the internet to say that the curfew and increased military presence in Kashgar is headline news on the BBC website. I haven't read it myself but to the dedicated few who actually read my blogs ...
What a Bunch of Animals!
... wouldn't know Mandarin or English. Twelve of us walked to the corner and jumped into three taxies. Our taxi convoy weaved through Kashgar to the north edge of town and soon the taxies pulled over to confer with each other. The first seemed to be confused ...
Very To See The Fragrant Of Muztagh Ata Story
... Of Iceberg And Fly With Eagle From Ice Peaks" heiszt es so schoen auf den zahlreichen Plakaten der Provinzregierung in Kashgar und ist eine der zahlreichen holprigen Uebersetzungen die uns erlauben ohne groszem schlechten Gewissen immer noch fast kein ...
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Tässä vielä kopio blogspotin 27.8. merkinnästä....(kuva ;) ...
The Great Game
... 19th century Central Asia was used as an area for the Russians to threaten the British in India with the respective consulates in Kashgar bases. Britain did not truly believe they would dare invade but it was agreed that the no mans lands between the two ...
Across the Khunjarab Pass
... slip away bottle gourd". babelfish has alot to answer for!!! after a couple of hours chilling out there we finsihed up here in kashgar where we're staying for afew nights. i was meant to fly to xian tom but im trying to change that so i can ...
Ni hao, xiexie
... uns ins 5 Stunden entfernte Kashgar bringt und dafuer, mit freudigem Gesicht 15 Euro entgegennimmt. Damit sind wir in Kashgar. Eine alte orientalische Stadt um deren Kern eine chinesiche Provinzmetropole gewachsen ist. Zum ersten Mal sind wir wieder ...
Kashgar, carrefour de la soie et du thé
... idéalement placé, mitoyenne du Kirghistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan et Pakistan, et non loin du Kazakstan et de l'Inde. A Kashgar la principale attraction est le marché du dimanche. Mais comme nous sommes deux gros débiles, nous sommes ...
Karakorum Highway Trip
... old selling quartz, embroidery and jewellry - easy to support as very cheap but bit pestering. Will be sorry to leave Kashgar, modern and old, friendly and now orientated around it - still fulfilling it's role as travellers' rest and staging ...
Kashgar, Xinjiang
... sure if I would cross the border to China when I was planning my trip. I made my decision a few days earlier to visit Kashgar. I'm glad that I already had the double entry visas to both China and Kyrgyzstan. At 7 am, I shared a taxi with an ...
Rocking the Kashgar
... for their own sake. I should mention that we spent the a good portion of the rest of the afternoon wandering through Kashgar's "Sunday bazaar," reportedly the largest open market in the world. Many cities claim the largest market, but I believe this ...
Kyrgyzstan - Yurts and Out of Control Horses
... Jones movie. And from here, we headed to cross the border into China (see Zoe's post). Well, it is quite late here in Kashgar where I write this from... Last word, Kyrgyzstan is a hidden gem and we all feel honored to have been there. ...
Evocative Old Kashgar
... from Silk Road Adventures had escorted us through the Chinese formalities of the Torugat Pass from Kyrgyzstan to China, and drove us onto Kashgar in 2009. We were delighted to see him and to have the opportunity to take a walk through the Old ...
The Pass
The 3700 metre Torugart Pass connects China to Kyrgyzstan and is reputedly the most unpredictable border post in Asia. It is a category 2 crossing which means that travellers are not officially allowed across. The main ...