Mmmm! Liang Ba Mian (cold spicy noodles with cilantro, cucumber, bean sprouts, and a bit of mutton) and a Rou Jia Mo (a spicy, oily mutton sandwich)...also known affectionately as a Roger Moore. My lunch every Saturday.

Kambayer, a friend of ours who works as a nurse at Korla's Uyghur hospital. Chinese nurses have not yet adopted the colorful scrubs seen in American hospitals.

Kambiyer checks David's blood pressure.

A view of the Korla skyline from the roof of the Uyghur hospital.

A long exposure shot at Korla's most rockin' night club, Hong Fan Qu. Scantily clad women, awful dancing, and expensive imported beer...hooray!

Korla's most awesome propaganda wall.

The "mountains" of Chinese politics: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin. Those Uyghur's sure look happy to see 'em!

A photo of Jiang Zemin from his visit to Korla in 1999.

Mao Zedong with a very famous Uyghur. Supposedly this old man rode his donkey all the way from Kasghar to Beijing to personally thank Mao for liberating China.

Wang Laoshi, a good friend and the proprietor of Korla's finest tea house, shows off her dumpling skills.

The usual suspects gather for a smoky evening of Mahjong at the tea house.

Firefighting in Korla is awesome and exciting! Note that in China you dial #119, not #911.

There's a lot of fruit for sale now that it's gotten hot, hot, hot! I particularly enjoy the style of cut that's used for pineapples.

The voice of the people! Fang Di, also known as, "The Radio Man", interviews angry demonstrators outside of a Korla department store. They'd all just lost their jobs because of some sort of swindle.

People like doing things in groups in China. Here, a group of older women practice synchronized dancing in Korla's Renmin Square.