China's "most exotic flavor" of the ancient city of Kashgar, Xinjiang, to go on the do not want to go!

Mango travel diary: a few days ago in Kashgar travel, just encountered the epidemic, friends have been concerned about asking me, you're okay? I said it's fine, the cases are mainly concentrated in Shoushi County. Perhaps in their impression, Kashgar is a city, like Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities in the Mainland. In fact, what many people don't know is that Kashgar is a region with an area of 162,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the entire Shandong province (157,900 square kilometers), and includes 12 county-level administrative districts underneath.

Kashgar, in northwestern China, southwestern Xinjiang, east of the Taklamakan Desert, west of Tajikistan, southwest of Afghanistan and Pakistan border, is a relatively rare domestic at the same time with three countries bordering the region. Speaking of Kashgar's topography is also very unique, surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is open, the south is the Karakoram Mountains, the west is the Pamir Plateau, the north is the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, the east is the Taklamakan Desert, the Yarkand River and the Kashgargar River alluvial plains are like emerald inlays.

In Xinjiang, there is "not to Kashgar is not considered to have been in Xinjiang", why? Because Kashgar and the three countries bordering the ancient times and was the seat of the Western Regions, so far retained the unique ethnic flavor of Xinjiang, can be said to be China's "most exotic" place, it has a long history, the scenery is spectacular, many gourmet food, is a stay on the place do not want to go.

With the northern border of the Han Chinese majority of the situation is different, the southern border of the Uyghur ethnicity, such as the Kashgar region, although it is a multi-ethnic settlement, there are Uyghurs, Han Chinese, Hui, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Russians, and other ethnic groups, but Uyghurs are predominantly, accounting for more than 90% of the total population, so many of our friends from the mainland to Kashgar will have their own is the minority sigh. The minority of the exclamation.

It is said that the northern border to see the scenery, the southern border to see the humanities, and the humanities of the southern border to Kashgar, because for thousands of years Kashgar has been the political, economic and cultural center of the southern border, in the ever-changing wave of modern development, Kashgar still retains a lot of traditional folklore, customs. For example, with more than 2,000 years of history of the ancient city of Kashgar, each alley hides a different story, each window, each lamp, each tile, are silent witness to the historical changes of the ancient city.

The ancient city of China has been a lot, the most let me have the desire to explore is the ancient city of Kashgar, it seems that every alley into the unknown place, there are unexpected surprises waiting for you, perhaps a few enthusiastic children, to meet you a big hug, perhaps a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep alley, planted with flowers and grasses on both sides. Kashgar ancient city is the most humane ancient city I have ever seen, and the general ancient city streets are full of stores on both sides of different, here as long as the turn into the alley, all residential. Why is Kashgar so attractive? Because here there is a vivid fireworks.

Kashi region more than a long history, rich ethnic flavor, the landscape here is also particularly vast and spectacularly beautiful, which is the most attractive is the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, along the way there are white sand lakes, Kara Kuli Lake, Moustagh Peak, Stone City, there are "guests on the icebergs," Tajiks, there is a beautiful Pamir Plateau, and there is the world's highest port of entry, the Red Cross, the highest altitude in the world, and there is the world's highest altitude in the world. The world's highest port Hongqilaf and so on, condensed Kashgar's humanities and landscape, so there is also "not to Tashan is not considered to have been to Kashgar," said.

Although I've been to Kashgar twice, each time I stayed more than a week, but I always feel that I stayed too short, so short that I haven't had time to enjoy its charm, and I didn't have time to understand its flavor more y. So if you have the opportunity, will certainly go to Kashgar again, to this area larger than Shandong Province, to feel the "not Kashgar is not considered to have been in Xinjiang" this sentence.