A 7500 mile journey across Asia along the old Silk Road

The rather grandiose name for the Bazaar in Kashgar! Given the security situation in Kashgar with the Uyghurs looking for more autonomy or even cessation from China there was a lot of security here. Bags checked and the mainly Han Chinese police and soldiers not over gentle doing it, not with us but with the locals. Locals seemed pretty placid about it all.....