Visit Kashgar

The world's largest car-free old city.

A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.

Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.

Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.

The first Ottoman capital under Mount Uludag: the Green Mosque, the silk bazaar and Iskender kebab.

Rumi's tomb and the whirling dervishes, the Seljuk capital in the middle of Anatolia.

The Kul Sharif mosque inside a Kremlin, the capital of Tatarstan where minarets and domes share a skyline.

The city of saints: blue-tiled Sufi shrines and the hottest summers in the subcontinent.