Kashi, China

... Chinese, but what you'd expect from Central Asia. Some of the pop songs were sung by balding middle-aged men---odd. Kashi really did seem like another country. The architecture was generally not that of the rest of China, and Han Chinese were mostly ...

... the west of china and wind up only going to urumuqi, which I'm sure would be a disappointment.. like everywhere else in china, you walk in to a new city to find its quite generic.. same buildings, same planning, same stores. unfortunately, kashgar will ...

Yakshimu Siz! ('Hello' in Uighur) Here we are in fabled Kashgar. This place has some amazing history, but I'll get into that at another time.... TJ and I arrived two days ago. I met him in the Urumqi airport and in order to stay below our weight ...

... playing together so freely outside of the sterile confines of a school yard. She doesn't understand that we've come from China to Kashgar and found it to be a different country entirely. We walk further and further talking and laughing. I keep ...