D4 Kashgar - Korla
Kashi City, the most attractive places where we have three, the old town, mosques and bazaar.
Kashgar Old Town really did not let us down, here is the deepest impression of Xinjiang Tourism one of the places, the traditional culture and exotic customs, deeply attracted us, and we this day most of the time spent in the old city on the tour. Unfortunately, the beginning is the Uygur people's consistent defensive, so we miss a number of further in-depth understanding of their life chances.
The so-called Old Town Kashgar Kashgar is a city of ghettos Uygur people, save a fairly complete construction and living habits. From our living room of a hotel to see the whole face of Kashgar Old Town, the same color of the naturals of the buildings, streets are narrow and dark, and everyone has a roof, usually two-story building, and two-layer a layer of larger, prominent to lap, two rows of houses like the middle of the street brought a hat, as even more of the dark mystery.
From the place that we live to the old town, also 10 minutes walk, Joann and I got into the Old City early in the morning in a hurry, this time the majority of Uygur people just get up, many shops do not open the door, the street is very quiet, from time to time coming from residential deep melodious Uygur music. Several of the Uygur rushing donkey cart swept our children waving, loud spoke hello, we smiled and shook his head, who gives a yell, a donkey cart into the alley and flexible. Walking in the Old City the road, every few blocks will be able to see a small mosque, green, orange red, gray, all with Arab characteristics, Yuanyuan of the spire, spire share of different sizes copper decoration of the crescent. Ordinary residence is also useful features, door and windows have been modified, although the old and new different, but they all trimmed with wood decorated with local characteristics. Guairu lanes from the road, the light immediately dark down the walls the color becomes gray-black, but is a stone-paved road surface due to age-old, was grinding the shiny, reflecting the large and small, bright spot. Walked slowly in those on the road and feel the serene atmosphere here is slow, there is a Thousand and One Nights into Baghdad, where the old sense of fantasy is the next street where there would be a sitting of the Arab armed with machetes Carpet Prince, or the head full of precious stones jewelry with a white veil covering their face, the Princess.
We are in the old town around here go, I heard that all the roads are leading to a place that Id Kah Mosque. Really the case, we walked aimlessly through the Uygur people in a market, saw the Id Kah Mosque. Unfortunately, bad luck, the mosque being repaired, the whole square is surrounded by them, we can only iron-wall cracks from the drilling site to see the view, the door did not open, do not know what it was like inside.
To leave the mosque is 11 points, and we drove to the location of the East bazaar, East and West Asia, the international trading market. Paco is the equivalent of a fairground scene in the Mainland, as Joann trip timing is good, we are hanging on that day exactly Kashgar Sunday is their busiest day of the bazaar. Here, packed with the local Uygur people, a wide variety of vendors and tourists like us. The market is between two intersecting cross streets, including southeast to the west side of the street longer, has been extended down to the west is the direction that is commonly known as the Epahuojia mazar Xiangfei Mu. This is the first from the Bazaar go apart, Wang Dan可真不容易, because so many people here are selling something, especially cloth, handicrafts and yogurt Shuiguo Tan mostly, plus some food, dried fruits, carpets vendors, There is also something that I do not know what the vendors had sold. Through the bazaar, to spend money to ride a donkey cart or carriage will be able to Xiangfei Mu, Xiang Feimu little people travel a lot, we had several tours in the back, listening to guided tours of the anecdote here, a kind of big advantage feeling. Shop the door at noon Xiangfei Mu eat, the boss's little daughter is always looking at us smiling, enthusiastic Uygur Aunt Joann gave one of metal butterflies.
From Xiangfei Mu back, again through the bazaar, more and more people, and some stalls before the regular walk, had fewer vendors from other people before the bypass. Out of the bazaar that went through the old town, when there has been a lot of excitement, and shops have been opened, and some shops very interesting, specially designed for selling water, yogurt and fruit, a lot of outside seating, similar to the Mainland, teahouses, but only a shed, there is a small TV, we did not understand the peacekeeping stood language comedy, a lot of people look at the inside of the relish.
In the evening, we took a train to Korla, Kuqa had plans to Joann's, but due to stroke two weeks earlier, the town of Kuqa to Bayan Bluck 217 State Road had opened up and can only bypass Korla, take State Road 218 a. This means that we had to give up Kuqa the Grand Canyon, the size Longchi, Kucha, and so where the ancient city. At this time really envy those who have free time to travel people ah.
Note:
1. Shopping in the Old City to Kanjia, but the rate of the number of good grasp of the majority of Uygur people very friendly, but there are profiteers.
2. Xiang Feimu tickets 15 yuan / Zhang.
3. If you intend to take the train to Korla, Kuqa, or the best tickets in advance, and sometimes votes are quite high. N945 plays hard sleeper ticket 229 / Zhang.
4. Ride a donkey cart also Kanjia, do not be afraid Uygur people, the general way they saw fit not counter-offer, and in general a one, from the East bazaar to Xiangfei Mu.
Author: Tiger_Moon
