There is a museum on Gaochang Lu (daily 9am-8pm;RMB20), containing a smallish collection of silk fragments, boots, tools, manuscripts and preserved corpses recovered from the nearby Silk Road sites, including those from the Astana Graves which you can visit just outside Turpan . Other than this, the bazaars off Laocheng Lu, a few hundred metres east of Gaochang Lu, are worth a casual look, though they are not comparable to anything in Kashgar. You’ll find knives, clothes, hats and boots on sale, while the most distinctive- ly local products include delicious sweet green raisins, as well as walnuts and almonds.
Related Information:
