Renmin Hotel Kashgar

... de gids ons wat sneller te rijden aangezien de custom control om 4 uur dicht gaat. Angelique scheurt met een rood hoofd van concentratie en frustratie over de hobbles en kuilen en we zijn er om….kwart over 4….Gelukkig kan er gebeld worden en gaat het geheel nog even speciaal voor ons open. Uiteraard paspoort bekijken en bus doorzoeken maar deze keer is de meneer in zn groene pak erg streng. Hij ziet een appel en die moeten we inleveren. Geen etenswaren China in….Ai ...

... to go after eachother with shovels and metal bars and beat 170 to death, would our army come and patrol every street, point their guns in people’s faces, seal off our holy places, video tape our every move, keep us apart from one another? I guess I like to think that things would never come to that in the first place in Canada. I like to imagine that our government would never repress any group to such an extreme (a few trips up north to some reserves might ...

... both boiling away in a spicy couldron - watching the bustle of the market. We tried to make it out to the Livestock Market but the roads were shut, so instead we went onto the Abakh Hoja Tomb, our first taste of muslim architecture. It was very impressive and housed a small museum with a 4th century mummy, old coins and various artifacts. The grounds also covered an "orchard". The ticket price included a fruit tasting - but this turned out to be a bowl of raisins ...

... the leaders of the autonomous region flew to Beijing to discuss their relationship with the central government. Their plane &#8220;crashed&#8221; (most likely they were either shot down or murdered after landing by the PRC) and the resistance movement collapsed. One leader fought on, but was captured and executed by the PRC in 1951. <br><br>The current oppression of the Ughyr people in Xingguan is an unfortunate result of the improper and unfair application of fair-sounding policies of ...

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... it for the next 200 km where there is a junction and lots of restaurants. <br><br>At San Cha Kou there are quite a few private taxis cruising the streets looking for people to go to Kashgar. We stand by the road and get pestered by these taxis. They can&#8217;t understand what we&#8217;re doing. A blue Liberation truck stops and picks us up. The lone driver works for one of the petro companies and is hauling chemicals to ...

... start. This was the International Hotel?<br><br>Having The Blacks is how we were feeling by then. But as most times we thought we were in deep despair, there was soon to be an up side. <br><br>Abdul bless him confirmed that he would help us with cashing some money at the Bank of China the next morning before our bus departed, and would help us purchase our bus fares. The hotel was centrally located near the Bank of China and our room was fine. The bathroom even had bathroom ...

... outpost was a crude cold concrete box. Although it was well after 3.00 pm, it was closed for lunch when we arrived. Well, actually no-one was having lunch. The customs official was sitting reading and he continued to do so for another half an hour before opening. We were then to find that our driver was told our car would have to wait for another passenger. Apparently a man had to travel from Kyrgyzstan into China because he had urgent family problems and no ...

... were icy and the surrounding desolate scenery was that of wide open snow covered plains dissected by power lines and then by an old Soviet barbed wire fence. A smoking chimney signaled a yurt with a family and a small number of animals. It was the only sign of habitation we saw on this road.<br><br>South from the outer border the road degenerated even further and in the distance we could see the Fergana Range. The road climbed up the Tuz-Bel Pass and then ...

... ice and blaring out what looked like a Uighur soap opera from a 14-inch TV and a jerry-rigged megaphone. Men in Western suit jackets and traditional hats grouped together to discuss the merits of this ram or that ewe. A few tourists wandered like us, some of them travel-weary, some looking fearfully at their shoes to avoid the droppings starting to cover the ground, a few wearing white outfits and sandals and seeming to have confused which continent they were visiting ...