City of grapes, we were there at the right season. The superb pictures in this series of 5 blogs on the Silk Road are courtesy of friends Peter and Mary - the not so good ones are mine!
Bunches of grapes everywhere, this was at our lunchtime restaurant
Excellent food and entertainment
Uyghurs have fascinating facial features, some even with blue eyes.
No, not a mosque but a drying room for grapes (or are they raisins?)
Haven't seen so many different shapes and sizes of raisins before!
Flaming Rock, which every child has heard of in the Monkey King, and yes, it was very hot!
Folk dance at the ruins of an old town
