Man and Mosque in Kashgar

[China]

This far western part of China is strongly Islamic. I’d been on the road for four days, coming from Islamabad, Pakistan. The buses were filled with Pakistani silk traders who cursed at the slow Chinese driving. I breathed one long sigh of relief as we puttered our way along at about 40 MPH. How nice to relax and not be obsessed with the Pakistani constant-near-head-on-collision approach to travel.