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Wood II

I love Xinjiang cuisine and Altun Orda was supposed to have some of the best in town.  Like Kashgar, the restaurant’s architecture & decor showed Middle Eastern, Russian, and Victorian influences. There was metal detector just behind these beautiful wooden doors, so I … Continue reading

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Oasis

I’ve finally made it to Kashgar, the oasis city at the far western end of the Silk Road near the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.  Over the crossroad city’s two thousand year history, it has been variously under the … Continue reading

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