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Xinjiang Kashgar Travel Guide About Xinjiang Kashgar Travel Guide

1. The old city with a history of more than 2,000 years is located in the center of Kashgar and is also one of the largest adobe buildings in the world.

2. The Aitig Mosque, located in the center of the old city of Kashgar, is one of the largest mosques in China. There are many magnificent and distinctive buildings in the temple, which can be visited one by one.

3. Gao Tai folk houses are located at the northeast end of the old city of Kashgar. It is a Uighur settlement built on the loess cliff, with a height of more than 40 meters and a length of more than 800 meters. It has a history of 600 years, and it is a great landscape for Kashgar to display the ancient Uygur dwellings and folk customs.

4. The famous Grand Bazaar in Kashgar is opposite the old city, with the "Gao Tai Mansion" in the middle. You can feel the bustling and crowded prosperity from a distance.

The Yarkant River is one of the four sources of the Tarim River, which means "a vast land" in Uighur. After leaving the Kunlun Gorge, the surging mountain torrents flow northward, forming many branches, spreading on alluvial fans and irrigating the Yerqiang River Oasis, which is one of the largest oases in Xinjiang.

6. At an altitude of 86 1 1 m, it is the second highest mountain in the world, second only to Mount Everest, but its climbing difficulty is much higher than Mount Everest, so it is called the Savage Giant Peak.

7. Gongzhubao is located about 70 kilometers south of Tashkurgan County, a mountain with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters in Karachi Canyon, the throat section of the ancient Silk Road. It is one of the tallest castles known in China.