scroll I bought for Julia ... hope she likes it! It's on light green rice paper.  

Uighar/Uzbek fabric piece I bought: with flower design and "Hand of Fatima" -- stunning piece~ (err, defintely needs to be ironed) 

"Fish" earring I bought in a silver shop for Christa B ... probably not meant to be worn! 

chilis and spices ... hot! 

view into internal courtyards from the street 

a quiet street in the Old City; houses are made from brick, mud and straw 

"A Good Family LIves Here" -- house ID. Note Arabic and Chinese 

house/shops in Old CIty in Kashgar 

roof designs 

lotos designs on pillars 

wood block design on pillar (with my finger in the picture) 

pillars 

additional pillar designs 

designs on wooden pillars 

main entrance of this mosque but I don't think the inside is used 

place where an Immam sits to deliver sermons during Friday prayers; still in use 

Chinese "graffiti" 

outside mosque area where people still pray daily and on Fridays 

Jane and our fabulous guide on walkway to anothr building in complex 

more "word soup" that amused us: no spitting and rubbishing 

story of the Fragrant Concubine Tomb and the Islamic family that is interred there 

tiles on pillar 

beautiful roses planted in garden outside Fragrant Concubine tomb 

green tile work on side of actual tomb building 

large minaret