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Why do I feel like I’m constantly being overcharged for food everywhere? (Note: Can polo, priced at RMB 5, really cost RMB 12 if I have a chicken drumstick too?)

Walking around the bazaar is good fun. I’m the only foreigner around and I wish I could have picked up some fresh produce like the locals.

Kuqa appears to be the last place in the world where one will crave for sex. There are HIV/ AIDS awareness posters everywhere, from the door of my hostel room to painted Arabic/ Chinese bilingual signs on the walls in the streets.

Preventing a man who is trying to enter the shower room when you are half dressed and all you’ve got is brute strength pressing your body against the door is no laughing matter.

No direct bus from Kuqa to Kashgar so I’m hopping on a bus to Aksu (yet another town with its history erased) first then to Kashgar.

Popular Chinese TV serial classic, Journey to the West theme song plays the moment I enter Aksu bus station. Absolutely hilarious, I can’t help but grin to myself.