Kashgar, China Travel Blogs

Mud-brick Mosques in Kashgar's Old City
May 4, 2009 (31 photos)

... . 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
May 3, 2009 (46 photos)

... 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
Nov 7, 2007 (21 photos)

... 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 ...

Chinese Bureaucracy
Jul 20, 2004

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 as ...

What it's good for
Jul 29, 2004 (1 photos)

... 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 balmy ...

Market Comparison
Jul 25, 2004 (1 photos)

... the comparison: Photos taken: Hotan 150 Kashgar 5 Other tourists seen: Hotan 4 Kashgar well over 150 Stalls aimed at tourists: Hotan 0 Kashgar over 20 Overall, I am glad that I went to the Kashgar market, I enjoyed it & it made a good comparison, but ...

More Bureaucracy
Jul 28, 2004

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
Jun 10, 2006 (45 photos)

... 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 destroyed ...

Wow. I can't believe we actually made it this far.
May 28, 2005 (25 photos)

... (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 ...

Kashgar
Jul 20, 2008 (24 photos)

                

China at last
Jun 15, 2008

... 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 despite ...

The blessed Olympic torch causes us more problems.
Jun 17, 2008

... 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 i ...

Happy Independence Day in Xinjiang! Kashgar!
Jul 6, 2009 (45 photos)

... into Kashgar. We flew from Chongqing to Lanjou, then to Urumuqi, then finally on to Kashgar, at the western end of China. Arriving in Kashgar we made our way to the hotel, located on the grounds of the old British Embassy, and checked in. The following ...

Very To See The Fragrant Of Muztagh Ata Story
Sep 1, 2007 (28 photos)

... 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 Chinesisch zu ...

Across the Khunjarab Pass
Jun 14, 2008

... 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
Aug 29, 2007 (32 photos)

... 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
Jul 21, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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 arrivés un ...

Karakorum Highway Trip
Jun 11, 2007

...  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 post ...

Kashgar, Xinjiang
Aug 11, 2006 (24 photos)

... 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 Italian ...

Rocking the Kashgar
Jun 14, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 one ...

Bagels in China
Apr 30, 2006 (6 photos)

... wake up. While the main streets of the city are lined with your standard banal Chinese buildings (disappointingly so ... I had heard that Kashgar was the least-Chinese of all cities) a short walk off the main streets leads you to the Kashgar of old, with ...

Abakh Hoja Tomb
Sep 1, 2007 (9 photos)

Abakh Hoja Tomb

Kashgar, Xinjiang
Aug 19, 2007

Kashgar, China by Tom Carter "He's from Pakistan.""No, no! He's Japanese." A lively group of Uyghurs orbiting around me at the Hotan marketplace in southern Xinjiang were vociferously debating the nationality of the 196cm foreigner standing before ...

Yusuf Has Hajiop Tomb
Aug 29, 2007 (26 photos)

Yusuf Has Hajiop Tomb

Kathmandu to Kashgar - Photos
Jun 15, 2008 (38 photos)

Some random pics of the trip from start to finish....

Gold Kiss and a night stroll through Kashgar
May 3, 2006

... being late and locked out). After dropping her off and promising to meet up the next day we walked back to the Seman through Kashgar... it was a fantastic experience. Once the sun sets, Kashgar at night is just as bustling, if not more so. Our local guide ...

Bazaar redux
May 4, 2006

... time. While China officially has one time zone, in Xinjiang they operate by a different clock set two hours earlier. It makes sense since Kashgar is about 2000 miles away from Beijing and no one would report for work if they had to be up by 7 am Beijing ...

Kasghar, China
Sep 20, 2008 (14 photos)

... to be another cold night.   DAY 106"The last bordercrossing.." - Mountain camp to Ulugqat (67km) ...and we are in China!!! Who would have thought hey, eventhough we were sceptical after all the troubles we had to go through to get our visas we ...

China - The old silk road
May 2, 2000 (23 photos)

... 000 km (5,000 miles) on land and sea. Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations of China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Indian subcontinent, and Rome, and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world.

KASHGAR!!!!
Apr 28, 2008 (17 photos)

... est donc un peu lourd et ne me fait pas regretter d'avoir vu celui de Hotan, plus authentique. Le veritable interet de Kashgar restera pour moi de deambuler dans les rues de la vieille ville et de s'y perdre bien evidemment. Je me considere comme ...