Kashgar, Western China....part (c)

This will the final Blog about Kashgar. You may be getting tired of this area. I hope not, but I won't stretch my luck!

I thought that I'd complete Kashgar with a photo montage. Does that suit?

I'll start with the bazaar.

It is open every day, and is a hive of activity.

Figs were in season, and there were numerous fig sellers outside the bazaar entrance.
6 juicy fresh figs, served to you on a bed of one huge fig leaf, for 1 Yuan (6 Yuan = $A1)   We ate lots of figs that morning. 

The fig sellers outside the bazaar.

The figs were absolutely delicious!

Inside the bazaar were myriads of stall holders, selling everything from the mundane to the unbelievable. But I must temper that statement....nothing is "mundane" in such an exotic setting as the Kashgar Bazaar.

There's a lot of chestnuts here!

Dried snake??? Probably medicinal.

..or maybe some scorpions?

Feel like sewing something? These fabrics are characteristic for the Uighurs.

And here we bought some watermelon....sweet and refreshing.

There were also bags of loose tea, and spices. The smells were wonderful.

And outside the bazaar the scenes were just as colourful.
Here a woman checks these short-handled brooms....which everyone uses. 

And people-gazing outside the bazaar was always engrossing.

These hats were very typical of the Uighur men.

And the women, too, were interesting to observe.

The older ones were often fairly heavily veiled, but not so the younger ones.

Here are two photos, taken just outside the bazaar, illustrating this.

Here is a heavily veiled woman.

....and here you can see most of the women have bare heads. One older women has a scarf and a shawl on her head.

Well, I said a the start of this Blog that it would be the last on Kashgar, but no.....too many photos left.

I shall post one more Blog, then we will leave Kashgar.

I promise!!!