Archive: August 23rd, 2010
I wrote about Svetlana’s trip to Kashgar … well, she’s given me a report on the trip and I thought I would share with you some of her gems. At first I thought of revisiting and editing the page to include some quotes – but then I thought it might be better just to give [...]
Crossing the border from Kyrgyzstan, over the Torugart Pass, or the newly opened (2002) Irkeshtam Pass, the first major town is the Uighur city of Kashgar – the farthest-west city in China. Kashgar is most famous for it’s Sunday Market, (“Asia’s most mind-boggling bazaar, a technicolour sea of people…. a photographer’s dream”). The Bazaar is [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about an invitation I had received to attend an exhibition across the border in Kashgar, in China. I was tempted – very tempted. It is over ten years since I was last in Kashgar and I have heard much about how the city has changed. The Chinese are developing [...]
