It’s easy to eat out in CHina. There are many varieties of food here and it’s cheap.

Ate a pigeon (15 yuan) for breakfast

Cleaned up the bird

Air in China is quite polluted even in Kashgar.

Moved to another hotel next door (40 yuan) because Hotel doens’t have hot water and is quite cold at night.

Someone important is visiting the city

Got on bus 9 to the west part of the city center. There are so many hotels (bing guan, jiu dian, zhao dai shuo) everywhere. I think Kashgar is a convenient place to stay because there are all different kinds of shops around, many modes of transportation and restaurants everywhere. I don’t have to walk far to get things I want here.

After school. Kids here wear very colorful winter clothings

Lunch, Hong Shao la mian and Niu Jing mian (10 yuan)

A shopping place street,

There are many different kinds of local Chinese brand name which I have never heard before. People are very enterprising here.

NOticed 2 sporting goods stores with logos similar to Nike.

A guy even came out and told me that I shouldn’t take photos because of business policy.

Cab is inexpensive here, around 5 Yuan to most places in the city. Took one to Kashgar Bazaar.

Part of the old city was demolished to build newer and safer buildings. There were people who criticised this plan saying this will destroy cultural history. But I think some buildings at the old city are torned and not sanitary to live in.

This is part of the Old city which is preserved for touristy purposes.

In front of a man make lake with a small pagoda and the old city at the back.

Met a talkative Uygur kid.
With a new found tourist guide infront of Lake DOng Hu

People’s square

Mr. Mao’s statue

Chicken market

Took bus 12 to Huang Jiang

I had to miss the Mal Bazaar (animal market) because it’s only held on Sunday and maybe Thursday.

Chinese food for dinner, it’s an all-you-eat can style for 7 yuan (USD$1).

After traveling for more than 4 months, I felt that in comparison with other countries, dollar to dollar, so far Kashgar has the best value for food. For USD$1-2, you can get pretty good food here.

Saw some riot police marching on the street. The city seemed pretty safe and haven’t seen any untoward incidence.

3 Responses to “Kashgar, China”

1. vi-zanne says:

   December 29, 2009 at 2:47 am

   u ate a pigeon! it’s something that we don’t get in the US eh? did u mean to put up more pictures on your blog? somehow they are not appearing, but anyway, im so glad that u are finally in china! at least it’s not a foreign place for u 🙂

2. poor guy says:

   December 29, 2009 at 9:26 am

   hey wei jen u are fucking amazing! you should do the ‘where the hell is matt’ dance video and post it on youtube. i just learn about your journey today. i gonna read it all today. So fucking unbelievable! Anyways wish you good luck and be home safe! Take care bro.

3. journey26 says:

   January 4, 2010 at 12:44 pm

   Yea, so far China is one of the easier place to travel for me. It’s quite convenient to be able to understand the language.