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| 36 miles NW of Kashgar
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| 32 miles NW of Kashgar
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The great Silk Road oasis city of Kashgar.
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| "Mattock Bazaar" (!?)
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| Dried delicacies
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| Mao Statue
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| Sunday Market: International Bazaar
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| Sunday Market: Large but not lively
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| Sunday Market
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| Sunday Market
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| Id Kah Mosque
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| "All ethnic groups live friendly together here."
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| Id Kah Mosque: One of several prayer courtyards
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| Id Kah Mosque: main prayer hall
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Kasgra does still have a few sections of its old city walls. but in other places they are being aggresisvely restored, and in some places appear to be being reimagined from scratch
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| Unrestored walls
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| Partly (?) restored walls
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| Real old city walls, West of Id Kah Mosque
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| Real old city walls, West of Id Kah mosque
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| "Not been to Kasgar, Not seen in Xinjiang"
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| Apak Hoja Tomb
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| 6 miles NE of Kashgar
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| 9 miles NE of Kashgar
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| 14 miles NE of Kashgar
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| 160 miles ENE of Kashgar
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| Traveller and English student "Bumaryam"
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| 94 miles West of Kuqa
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| Local sage
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| Cryptic government propaganda paintings
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| Cryptic government propaganda paintings
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| Cryptic government propaganda paintings
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| Grand Kuqua Mosque
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| Grand Kuqua Mosque
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| Qiuci Royal Palace entrance
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| Oasis town, 81 miles East of Kuqa
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| 72 miles East of Korla
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| Wind farm, 49 miles West of Turpan
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| Desert, 22 miles NW of Turpan
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| Erdaoqiao Grand Bazaar
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| Former Mosque, outside International bazaar
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| Outside International bazaar
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| Outside International bazaar
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| Monument to the PLA March into Xinjiang
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| Monument detail
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| Monument detail
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| Noticeable Notice
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| Confucian Temple
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| Confucian Temple
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| Confucian Temple
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| View towards Hingshan Park pagoda
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| Hongshan Park viewing pagoda
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| Downtown Urumqi, from Hongshan Park
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| Hongshan Park mini pagoda
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| Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum
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| Bronze warrior, ~500 BC
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| "Europoid mummy" ~ 800 BC
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| "Europoid mummy" ~800 BC
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| "Europoid mummy" ~1800BC
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Kyrgyzstan
