Date: 9 28 - September 30 itinerary: Aksu - Kashgar - Hotan
Turn the Tianshan Mountains, we entered into the southern border, the first stop is the southern border town - Kashgar, there is the saying that "not not been to Kashi, Xinjiang," it shows the importance of in Xinjiang, we toss in the way of the After nearly six hours, and finally came to this ancient town. Another saying that "the northern look at the scenery, in southern Xinjiang to see humanity", this statement also highlighted in southern Xinjiang and the northern of the differences. As the long history, the overall layout of Kashgar looked very messy, which from our cars into the city have a feeling. Kashgar's cultural landscape, and we have previously visited any of the Xinjiang city is different, the streets were approved with a leather hat and a beautiful scarf for men and women of ethnic minorities.
Today is Sunday, Kashi just a big bazaar (market) day, to lay down their luggage, we went straight to Grand Bazaar away.
Days that, this is what the market ah!
On both sides of the road are all sorts of street vendors, selling grapes, selling apples, pears sell, sell melon, and selling figs, and sell all kinds of pasta, selling a variety of production tools, selling musical instruments, to buy daily necessities, and sell clothing shoes and hats, and readily available, in the back of street vendors, it is in Xinjiang to see any animals, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, and even a camel. Transport vehicles and pedestrians, grab the road, go to the market to bring people into the city's donkey cart carriage, modern little motorized, three, carrying tourists walk through the taxis, voluminous public transport vehicles, there's really nothing of the lively. Look around, it felt to another country, a high nose beards deep purpose of man, the entire face with a scarf surrounded Yanyanshishi woman, completely incomprehensible language, so that everyone would feel a little "foreigner" in meaning.
Local people's health habits, in my opinion is a little problem, but the atmosphere at that time, early forget these. Wrapped in leaves of the fig looks a bit suspect of corruption, but very sweet; the old man selling melons knife waved in the gray sand, but the melon crispy and sweet, people do not want to stop a further 1; lamb steamed dumpling of the exposed to a bit of filling the air, but after a good steaming hot in the aerosol, or distributed with enticing aroma; loaded glass of pomegranate juice antecedents everybody acting suspiciously, but end up Drink Up mouth full of fragrance of sweet and sour, when, who to consider the cup of the situation? If you wanted too much, would not be able to integrate themselves into the Kashi of the environment.
Eat dinner, there is a interesting story in the restaurant, is almost completed by gesture during the entire meal, the waiter kept out of the situation as a joke.
No. 29, I rented a bike for a whole day visiting the in Kashi, traveled to the old town every alley. The kind of all-brown-yellow ancient Islamic architecture, sedimentation of the thousands of years of human temperament. Lanes in each shop may have been the hands of workshops over the years from generation to generation, there is no one small street to sell the same goods, wood products and metal products occupy a different corner, respectively, gold shop artists use the original Tools pondering the one piece of jewelry, then a piece to display in a small workshop, the dazzling to shine in the sun, takes away people's eyes; boxes of the workshop is also very interesting that these boxes form the appearance of ancient sculpture of the nation's floriation, there was so shiny metal casing is a combination of modern civilization and traditional do? I guess some years ago, it should be made of wood as raw material bar; have an alley, all of the shops are covered with a felt hat, mainly for men, wearing dark shades of the hat, I wonder if there are several thousand on the whole street a few hundred; selling food on the street is mainly Uygur traditional foods, baked buns shell coke incense the smell of mutton and lamb gas mixed with some other ingredients are strange smell when the whole street cast a strange hard to explain The atmosphere, on the kinds of tea, many people enjoy such a shop, rumble to drink and chat. A fan behind the half-open-closed door, a pink makeup Yuzhuo a small child sitting on two bright eyes staring stool looked wonderful in the world, their beautiful mother had finally decided to lay down a thick veil of doing housework in general while smiling face every curious traveler. Sun drying the body warm, and slowly the rhythm of people involuntarily to slow down the pace, originally Kashi is a slow-paced city, suitable for all those who ease the mood completely liberalized, feel the pulse of the city is different from the ordinary.
No. 30 in the morning we visited the Id Kah Mosque and Xiangfei Mu, Ai Temple is the largest Islamic temple, but is being repaired, it is inevitable to visit affected. The Xiangfei Mu is the most prestigious in Xinjiang Apahuojia commonly known as the family mausoleum is a typical Islamic style of palace-style mausoleum building, built in 1640, dozens of large and small coffin in a tomb, Xiang Fei's to indulge in the tomb is in fact very modest corner, after all, she was only the core family, the fifth generation of her descendants, if not exactly experienced tour guides to explain, I must not know which is her tomb. Education graves in Iraq are all wrapped in a simple white cloth to the dead buried, and therefore rarely Tomb.
Pm We have Yingjisha, Yarkand, Yecheng, black jade and other edge of the Taklimakan desert oasis city of arrival of yet another famous city in southern Xinjiang Hotan, Hotan Jade known so far can also Hotan River, onto good quality of jade it. The city is also mainly a predominantly-dimensional, with little Chinese. A typical dinner is a meal-dimensional meal, something never seen before, whose name is ambiguous. Kebab, lamb dumplings are met a friend, while barbecuing lamb chops, pumpkin dumplings, a special spices added Yumi Hu, hand pilaf, with a thin face cortex cascading effect, and put a goat's milk face point, one after another bombing of our mouth and brain. This can make 130 kinds of different dimensions-style cuisine to a tiny shop left us with a very deep impression on everyone patting stomach, licking mouth, get enough to leave.
* 1, according to historical records, Kashgar in September rainfall to 0, but we have encountered is even a little rain does not rain, which weather records over the years is rare. People on the street is not an umbrella, it is estimated here, no umbrella bar.
* 2, Uygur people make more use of donkey carts and bicycles to do transport
* 3, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to go to work until 16:00 GMT
* 4, Kashi City home fast-food restaurants, but the business is very short, probably not very consistent pace and the city bar
* 5,30 Wada put the night of fireworks, I did not think the sky's most brilliant fireworks, and as we feel satisfied after a meal.
Author: sunzng
