http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4734) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:16:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/pantuo-city/Pantuo City, also known as Aisksa, is situated near by the Tuman River southeast of Kashgar. In the early nineteen century French explorer Paul Pelliot prospected for the area. According to his notes, ramparts of the city were built along sthe north and the east borders of the township, with a length of 287 meters and 205 meters respectively and a foundation of 7-meter wide. Pantuo had always had substantial political and economic importance for several dynasties historically. The palace of Shu...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 613) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:14:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/ruins-of-stone-city/The Stone City is situated north to the Tashgar Kurghan Tadzhik with an altitude of 3100 meters above sea levels. It is interesting to note that Tashgar Kurghan is the Turkish word for a stone city. The Stone City is a renowned ancient town on the Silk Road of Xinjiang. During the Han Dynasty it was designated to be the capital city of Puli, which was among the 36 states in the western borders of ancient China. When the emperor of the Tang Dynasty consolidated all the countries in the west into ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 616) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:13:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/tomb-of-king-shache/The Tomb of King Shache occupies an area of 1,050 square kilometers. Over the years with wears and tears from the nature, the frescos, the walls and the structures are in surprisingly great conditions. In commemoration of Queen of Shache, Aman Nishahan, also a famous poet, local people with support from the government have established a 22-meter high monument. It has an Islamic architectural style with a delicately designed and sculpted vault and is standing superbly upon a 2-meter high, 10-mete...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1263) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:11:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/sunday-bazaar/The Sunday Bazaar is an incredibly popular market all over the Xinjiang Province and extend all over China since ancient times. Over the years it has grown larger in scale, and has attracted a wider range of merchants as well as buyers and tourists from Xinjiang as well as neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Kirghizstan. Bazaar as in Uygur language means farming trading market. The Sunday Bazaar in Kashgar is by far the biggest, busiest and most popular market in Xinjiang. Every week a...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 606) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:08:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/silk-road-museum/The Silk Road Museum, also known as the Kashgar Regional Museum, was established in Kashgar 1992. It occupies an area of 2,360 square meters. Hundreds of cultural relics are being displayed in the museum. There are ancient text records from various religions, tools and instruments used by traders and nomads, and some fascinating prehistoric artifacts that could be traced back to the Calahan Dynasty, Han and Tang Dynasties, Bronze Age, and even to Stone Age. The exhibition of these precious cultu...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 612) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:07:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/mahmud-kashigari-tomb/Mahmud Kashigari, a highly respected scholar during the Karakhanid Dynasty, was very well known for his linguistic magnum opus-The Complete Turkish Dictionary. After died at the end of the eleventh century, he was buried on a hillside, which later named Aizretemaojim or Hill of Saint in his hometown to commemorate his great achievement. There is a cemetery and the Libai Temple around his tomb. The giant portrait of Mahmud Kashigari together with every edition of his great work - The Complete Tu...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 607) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:05:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/idgar-mosque/Etigar Mosque, located on the Public Square in the middle of the city, is the biggest in China occupying an area of 16,800 squaremeters. It is said to be a cemetery built by the Kashgar Emporer Shakesezi Mizhaerset in 1442 in commemoration to and to worship the souls of his deceased relatives. The temple inside was used for memorial ceremony and now attracts many prayers and religious followers. In 1538 Shakesezis descendant Wubuliaerboke expanded the temple to accommodate larger groups of praye...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 620) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:03:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/fruits-garden/The Bosikeramu Fruits Garden, located inside th Bosikeramu Village 14 kilometers northeast of Kashgar city, is the largest in the region. It takes up roughly an area of 70 acres. There are more than 20 various types of an enormous range of fruits: almonds, apples, grapes, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, papayas, pomegranates, figs and so on. They were categorized by different ripen stages that they are in. Every May till November is the awesome harvest season, and the fruits become ripe conti...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4497) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/zhiren-street/The Zhiren Street is the most characteristic and unique place showing off the distinctive customs and cultures of Kashgar of Xinjiang. There are many full-time handicraftsmen working on the street and it is hence also called the Handicraft Street, with hundreds of workshops and booths alongside. It is regarded as an exhibition hot-spot for the famous traditional Kashgar as well as mid-Asian handicrafts. Among the collection there is the delicately-worked national cap, the ancient national embro...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 615) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 21:58:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/three-immortals-cave/18 kilometers away north to Kashgar, the Three-Immortal Caves are situated on a cliff of the south shore of the Bo Shi Ke Ran River. The caves were carved at the end of the Han Dynasty, about 13 meters (or 17 yards) down to the bottom of the cliff and 8 meters (or 10 yards) from the cliff top. They are the earliest caverns found so far in west China and are the only Buddhist monuments of ancient Shu Le district. They have been surprisingly well preserved. It is said that the Three-Immortal cave...]]>Fri 14 Aug 2008 21:54:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/snowball-fight/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 611) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 21:51:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/mauri-pagoda/30 kilometers northeast to the Kashgar city, there resides the remains of an ancient city that dates back to the Tang Dynasty 1500 years ago. Based upon reports from archeological investigation, this city used to be the Summer Palace for the Emperor of the Karakhanid Dynasty. The township occupies a territory of 3-kilometer long and 1-kilometer wide and was protected by ramparts all around. The pagoda is about 12-meter high with an ovate top. It was built upon three squared bases with a border o...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5506) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 21:46:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/livestock-market/New the center of Kashgar city, the Sunday livestock market is a fantastic place to buy and sell various livestock and also a great attraction of Kashgar. Every Sunday vehicles of all kinds, cars, trucks, bikes and even d carts just pour into the market bringing buyers and sellers from all over the province and livestock of any breed that are known to man. Small groups of men greet each other at the market; they then go on inspecting and picking animals, and inevitably haggling with great passi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 614) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 21:42:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/kashgar-minority-nationalities-kindergarten/Kashgar has a residence of a large number of minority groups. During the period of social development, they have worked closely with each other, and their cultures have been inevitably assimilated. In Kashgar Children are considered to be disseminators of their precious tradition and culture heritages of their own ethnic group. Hence there have been a large number of Minority Nationalities Kindergartens established in the region. You can be easily affected by the spontaneous expressions of the...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1265) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 14 Aug 2008 21:38:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/attraction/chini-bagh/Kashgar's Chini Bagh used to be the residence of British Consul George Macartney and his wife Lady Catherine Macartney for 28 years. There have been an incredible collection of processions from adventurers, explorers and historical characters, including Aurel Stein, Father Hendricks, Albert Von Le Coq, and two of the Count Otani's Central Asian archaeologists/spies, Eizaburo Nomura and Zuicho Tachibana. In 1980, when Macartney was back to English, Chini Bagh become the home for Captain A.R.B Sh...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 681) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 31 Jul 2008 3:51:00 GMTandy yenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/bar/babyface/With the capacity of 250 people, Babyface is praised for its first-class service, high-quality wine, and its excellent DJ. Every day it starts its business from 22:00 and ends at 4:00 of the next morning. Babyface has enough KTV rooms, and some some times it offers excellent and interesting performances. The rock singer, the pattern bartender, and the flame performerwill show youthe most popular performances....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 553) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 31 Jul 2008 2:44:00 GMTtiamo256http://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/shop/the-most-famous-bazaar-of-kashgar/There are many shopping sites in Kashgarand the best area to shop is around the streets near the Etigar Mosque Square. The streets east of the square have a good selection of all colors and patterns. Heading south from the east of the square is the main bazaar, where blacksmiths and carpenters can be seen hard-working in front of their workshops and stalls. Knives with handles inlaid with jewels and ivory, chests decorated with tin, and numerous musical instruments can all be purchased there. No...]]>Fri 31 Jul 2008 2:37:00 GMTchristyinguilinhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/festival/sheep-bone-game/Fri 31 Jul 2008 1:09:00 GMTchristyinguilinhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/festival/maixilaifu/Fri 31 Jul 2008 0:02:00 GMTchristyinguilinhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/kashgar/festival/sheepfight/