Here are the Uighurs
So the Uighurs (pronouned ‘weeghurs’) - with about 40% of them in
Turpan, the local flavour is even more strongly theirs than in Urumqi
(where the population is more like 20%). Think snake-charmer pipe
music, distant drums, sequinned headscarves on the women, gambling in
the streets, chickens squawking, donkeys for transport (yes,
Hitchhiking on a Donkey: Novel Experience # 2381), bazaar life - with
the sandy tones of mud and straw-built houses and mosques in a dust
bowl town, one could even think for a moment that you were in Morocco.
Except for the state advertising in Chinese (as well as Arabic). And
of course, the dominant gene of Chinese cheekbones.
