Kashgar Hotels - Comments and Reviews

From Pakistan to paranoia. No other way to put it, really. The thing about having a travelling, having a good time, and keeping the Goodyears turning, is that one eventually leaves a trail of dust in the fun zone. Pakistan seems to have come and gone in a flash, a bright flash of great music, madcap road rides, a few bottles of rotgut, and a ser...

We have been enjoying Kashgar for the last 5 days. It has been a brief sojourn into the western edge of China, but a very interesting one. We were expecting a real wild west outpost but instead we have found Kashgar suprisingly well developed and a nice breather from the small villages of Northern Pakistan. Tomorrow we are back in the unknown- w...

Hi Folks, I was intending to write a blog tomorrow 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 i thought you may recognise the name Kas...

Hello from Kashgar! We are delighted to be here, in this truly "wild west" outpost of China. A city of about 350,000 people, it seems massive and cosmopolitan, given our past few days in rural Kyrgyzstan--but by Chinese standards, it barely ranks as a city at all. First impressions: The minority Uigher ethnic group is the majority here, and the ...

J'aurai pas forcement grand chose a dire sur Kashgar qui ne differe reellement de ce que j'ai ecrit sur Hotan et Turfan. Ah non, j'ai rien ecrit sur Hotan... c'est vrai. Le marche etait joli et j'ai achete un couteau pour feter mon anniversaire de voyage. Voila, c'est fait. A Kashgar, j'ai pas achete de couteau et j'ai pas vu le marche du dimanc...

After Yarkand last night - very very hot, dusty teeming town and grotty hotel, had lovely drive through yet more poplar glades, deserts and new (to south) mountain range - the one bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan. Have been travelling on this south Silk Road for number of days, stopping off to visit craftmen, factories and things like prospect...

Anstrengende Anreise nach Kashgar, 39 Stunden unterwegs Nachdem unser Bus vom Vortag verschoben worden war, sind wir am naechten Vormittag um 9.30 wieder am Busbahnhof, wieder gemeinsam mit einigen PSB-Beamten in Uniform und in Zivil, die jeden/jede TouristIn abfangen und sicher stellen wollen, dass sie nur dorthin fahren, wohin sie hinfahren du...

Stepping off the airplane and into the Kashgar airport waiting area is definitely like stepping out of China and into another world. The people here don't look "Chinese" in the traditional sense. More Central Asian than East Asian, the peoples here have intermixed over the centuries with Persian traders and others of European descent to create t...

28.08.2003 Kashgar och menno, im moment schnurrt mein kopf...ich habe heute im bus ein angebot erhalten in china zu unterrichten...eigtl. wollte ich grade ein ticket nach urumuchi kaufen....das entgelt ist zwar eher sehr symbolisch aber die 3 chinesinnen mit denen ich wohne und unterrichte sehr nett und das ganze klingt auch noch furchtbar inter...

The old silk road The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent mainly connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China, with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. It extends over 8,000 km (5,000 miles) on land and sea. Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in t...