There are walls and walls of carpets, scarves, material, dried fruit, musical instruments, hats, shoes, bags .... it goes on and on!
We spent a greater part of 3 hours here, even haggling at full force (the only way to survive here, as they are master sellers - the result of generations of trading) for some of our own purchases. With many stalls selling the same things, the buyer definitely has the advantage as there's always someone who will sell it cheaper!We to buy a congratulations pressie for EJ who has just got an A for one of her design projects at Uni - and boy she deserved it, the photos were amazing!! Since we were buying for EJ, it wasn't hard to buy a few things for ourselves too! Our favourite purchases were a guitar and a drum - we might even start busking to get some extra cash for on the road!!
Out on the streets we indulged in some yummy Uighur breads and unlike Chinese bread, they taste like they should - salty!
From here we headed to the Abakh Hoja Tomb - which is just stunning! The tomb was erected in 1640 in memory of one of Kashgar's most famous leaders, and it is one of the largest domed buildings in Xinjiang. The architecture is so different than Chinese style, it was fascinating for us - too hard to describe, so just enjoy the photo! 
We caught bus number 20 back to the centre of town (passing the Sunday Market again) where we ran into 4 travellers looking for accommodation. Liv then played translator to get them a cheap room in our hotel!
One of the best things to do in Kashgar is to make yourselves one with the old part of town, so once again we made our way via the back roads until we were mashed between hundreds of friendly Uighurs going about their night market business. We followed a smile into a restaurant where we dined on Uighur noodle dishes, Adam getting quite the mixture of liver, kidneys and other 'things', and Liv's vege dish was a safe mixture of veges and eggs.
On the way back to the hotel we picked up some yummy (if very very tough) bagels for our long train journey tomorrow, and we spent the rest of the night watching more Olympics and chilling one of our last nights in China away. We also found out that there was another attack on security guards about 30km south of Kashgar, which accounts for the addtion of these spikes outside the government office that weren't there yesterday.
Adlibing it with the adlibed tiles.
On the way back to the hotel we picked up some yummy (if very very tough) bagels for our long train journey tomorrow, and we spent the rest of the night watching more Olympics and chilling one of our last nights in China away. We also found out that there was another attack on security guards about 30km south of Kashgar, which accounts for the addtion of these spikes outside the government office that weren't there yesterday.
Adlibing it with the adlibed tiles.
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