This is the first "attraction" I visited during my trip to Kashgar.

It was it that opened my horizons during my journey in Xinjiang.

The special bazaar arrived in Kashgar on a Saturday and was hurriedly placed in a youth hostel.

There is a long-haired girl living in the bunk below me. She told me excitedly: There will be a "Cattle and Sheep Bazaar" tomorrow. It is only open on Sundays. Let's go together.

I agreed without even thinking about it.

We only go there once a week. I can’t tell whether I’ll be in Kashgar next week, so of course I’ll go!

There is a direct bus from downtown Kashgar to the Cattle and Sheep Bazaar.

Early the next morning, five or six of us boarded the No. 23 bus and headed straight to the west of the city, 10 kilometers away.

In fact, I was completely confused at that time. I didn’t even know the jet lag. I didn’t even know what a Bazaar was in Xinjiang. That’s how traveling in Xinjiang is.

Many times it is not you looking for the scenery, but the scenery looking for you.

When you arrive at a place and integrate into a group, Kashgar will dispel all your worries.

There were so many restrictions that I didn’t know what to do with, and all of them disappeared in an instant.

In my previous travel notes, I mentioned that the Bazaar is the market in Xinjiang, and in Kashgar, there is a market dedicated to selling animals called the Cattle and Sheep Bazaar.

Xinjiang is different from other places. It is rich in products and has a very developed animal husbandry industry.

There are all kinds of bazaars here: large comprehensive markets, markets in villages, street stalls, etc. They all have fixed bazaars. Even if the bazaars are open every day, only some of them are open.

The busiest day.

Therefore, when you go to Xinjiang, you must cultivate a travel style that is resolute and decisive.

There are some scenery that only appears at a specific time. After that time, you can only wait for the next time.

Time flies and never comes back. When traveling in Xinjiang, this sentence feels particularly profound.

Cattle and Sheep Bazaar The full name of Cattle and Sheep Bazaar is "Kashgar Live Animal Trading Market". It took more than an hour for the bus to arrive.

Along the way, we passed several small villages in the suburbs. They were hidden behind sparse tall trees, like small villas.

Our country attaches great importance to this "most special city in Xinjiang". Especially in the past 10 years, the urban landscape of Kashgar has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the living habits of Kashgar people have also quietly undergone subtle changes.

For example, at the gate of the Cattle and Sheep Bazaar, I saw the booth of an insurance company. Kashgar people changed their traditional thinking mode and began to accept "novel" ways to protect their personal and property safety.

This is a very lively market. Vendors selling fruits and snacks are gathered around the door. They never miss any sales opportunity and tell people coming and going: If you want to buy something, buy it here. There are fruits that are not available in the market.

The Uyghur children stayed quietly in the car, waiting for their fathers.

That's right, dad instead of mom? You will find that all the active vendors and buyers in this cattle and sheep bazaar are men, and there are almost no Uyghur women here.

So we girls in skirts looked so out of place in this huge shopping mall.

But the foreigners who have traveled thousands of miles to visit are not inconspicuous because they have similar faces, with high nose bridges and deep sunken eye sockets.

Kashgar children in the Cattle and Sheep Bazar can help their parents work at a very young age. A teenager in his teens can hold a 300 kilogram cow by himself.

In the long river of life, they set sail early. On the somewhat heavy proposition of "survival", they handed over an answer sheet that was completely different from that of children in other areas.

They will not refuse the camera at all, with a little shyness. They don't need to think about unnecessary things every day when they are with animals. Their childhood is happy.

There are some pure beauties that we cannot envy.

Animals Every Sunday, shepherds living in Kashgar will bring their sellable livestock to this market in small carts.

At the Cattle and Sheep Bazaar, the live animals I saw were mainly cattle and sheep, and occasionally there were vendors leading camels.

Camels are an indispensable means of transportation in the vast deserts of Xinjiang. Their humps store life-saving nutrients.

On the Silk Road a few years ago, camels were the most common animals in Kashgar, a small city located in the middle of the Western Region.

Nowadays in Xinjiang, camels are rarely used to pull goods or carry people. They have become "tools" in scenic spots for people to watch and check in for travel photos.

Nowadays, if you want to appreciate the grand scene of the camels lined up, you can only go to those enclosed desert scenic spots.

In the Cattle and Sheep Bazaar, camels have also become "toys" for children, but as tourists, we'd better stay away from them.

Camels are large animals that look cute and cute, but they are not gentle and approachable species.

Camels generally don't bite, but that doesn't stop them from having a strong attack power.

Once an adult camel starts running, cars may not be able to catch up.

Depending on the size of the seller, the sheep are divided into several areas and tied together head to head, huddled together.

A sheep's whole body is full of treasures.

Wool can be sheared and made into clothing and various textile products; goat milk can be used to feed people and small animals; mutton can be made into various delicacies; sheep bones can be made into soup; and sheep heads can also be made into decorations?

Therefore, in the cattle and sheep bazaar, sheep are the most numerous and best-selling items.