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Mud-brick Mosques in Kashgar's Old City, Kashgar, China travel blog

Mud-brick Mosques in Kashgar's Old City

A travel blog entry by bethverde

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... . 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

I'll have three donkeys and a camel, please

A travel blog entry by bethverde

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

The Silk Road:Kashgar and the New Silk Road

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Olympic paranoia

A travel blog entry by the-rambler

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... ' 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, Yunnan, Sichua, Gansu and Xinjiang, China travel blog

Food in China

A travel blog entry by beats

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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, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China travel blog

Chinese Bureaucracy

A travel blog entry by beats

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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, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China travel blog

What it's good for

A travel blog entry by beats

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... 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, Hotan and Kashgar, Xinjiang, China travel blog

Market Comparison

A travel blog entry by beats

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... . 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, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China travel blog

More Bureaucracy

A travel blog entry by beats

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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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Travels along the silk road

A travel blog entry by grizzly

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... 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., Kashgar, China travel blog

Wow. I can't believe we actually made it this far.

A travel blog entry by chris-marianne

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... (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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Kashgar

A travel blog entry by tch3k

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The place that first got me thinking about China, Shipton's Arch (near Mingyol), China travel blog

The place that first got me thinking about China

A travel blog entry by scottk

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... ("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, Kashgar, China travel blog

China at last

A travel blog entry by queenietord

... 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., Kashgar, China travel blog

The blessed Olympic torch causes us more problems.

A travel blog entry by queenietord

... 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!, Kashgar, China travel blog

What a Bunch of Animals!

A travel blog entry by michellendave

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Very To See The Fragrant Of Muztagh Ata Story

A travel blog entry by laurinaway

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... 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 ...

..ja vielä kopio sieltä toisesta blogista..., Kashgar, China travel blog

..ja vielä kopio sieltä toisesta blogista...

A travel blog entry by iloinensancai

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 Tässä vielä kopio blogspotin 27.8. merkinnästä....(kuva ;) ...

The Great Game, Kashgar, China travel blog

The Great Game

A travel blog entry by laurencegarner

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Across the Khunjarab Pass

A travel blog entry by nikkiviper

... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Ni hao, xiexie

A travel blog entry by laurinaway

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Kashgar, carrefour de la soie et du thé

A travel blog entry by z00b

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Karakorum Highway Trip

A travel blog entry by susienewton

... 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 ...

Karakoram Highway-Pamir Plateau***, Kongur Tobe Feng, China travel blog

Karakoram Highway-Pamir Plateau***

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Kashgar, Xinjiang, Kashgar, China travel blog

Kashgar, Xinjiang

A travel blog entry by lok

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Rocking the Kashgar

A travel blog entry by jksz

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... 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 ...

Abakh Hoja Tomb, Kashgar, China travel blog

Abakh Hoja Tomb

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Abakh Hoja ...

Kyrgyzstan - Yurts and Out of Control Horses, Bishkek, Kochkor, Naryn, and Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan travel blog

Kyrgyzstan - Yurts and Out of Control Horses

A travel blog entry by jksz

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... 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, Kashgar, China travel blog

Evocative Old Kashgar

A travel blog entry by crowdywendy

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... 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, Torugart Pass, China travel blog

The Pass

A travel blog entry by jeznkez

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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 ...

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