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Kashgar
China's most Central Asian city — a Silk Road trading post where Uyghur culture thrives in mud-brick alleys and the Sunday bazaar.
喀什
China's most Central Asian city — a Silk Road trading post where Uyghur culture thrives in mud-brick alleys and the Sunday bazaar.
Kashgar (Kashi) is 4,000km from Beijing and feels like it. This is China's westernmost city, closer to Islamabad than to Shanghai, and the culture is overwhelmingly Uyghur. The Old City, with its labyrinth of mud-brick houses and narrow alleys, is one of the most authentic Central Asian urban landscapes remaining. The Id Kah Mosque, China's largest, fills with 10,000 worshippers on Fridays. The Sunday Bazaar (livestock market) is a scene straight out of the Silk Road — farmers trading sheep, donkeys, and horses exactly as they have for 2,000 years. Kashgar is the end of the road in China, and the beginning of the Silk Road to Central Asia.
