Author: karl

Payzawat (Jiashi) travel: a Kashgar melon town 70 km east, known for 伽师瓜, quake-rebuilt streets and the Xike’er colorful mountains. Plan your visit here.

Plan your Makit travel: a guide to the Dolan culture heartland east of Kashgar, with poplar forests, farmer paintings, and the Yarkand River oasis waiting.

Plan your Makit travel: a guide to the Dolan culture heartland east of Kashgar, with poplar forests, farmer paintings, and the Yarkand River oasis waiting.

Plan your Makit travel: a guide to the Dolan culture heartland east of Kashgar, with poplar forests, farmer paintings, and the Yarkand River oasis waiting.

Kizilsu travel guide: China’s only Kyrgyz prefecture, a borderland of red rivers, Pamir peaks and yurt camps wedged between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Kizilsu travel guide: China’s only Kyrgyz prefecture, a borderland of red rivers, Pamir peaks and yurt camps wedged between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Toksun County travel: Xinjiang’s windy crossroads below the Flaming Mountains, where a zero-elevation basin floor meets yardang stone forests and apricots.

Mori County travel: a Silk Road county 270 km from Urumqi where coal seams meet wind farms beneath the northern Tianshan, with lamb, dunes and old poplars.

Wusu City sits where the northern Silk Road bends in northern Xinjiang — an oasis of spruce forests, mud volcanoes and the gateway to the Duku Highway.

Yanqi County travel guide: explore Karashahr, the lost Tocharian Silk Road kingdom, its Buddhist ruins, and the modern Hui town by Bosten Lake in Xinjiang.