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Day 15 – The Muslin Quarter, Xi’an

A fairly quiet day today, we had a flight at 19:00 to Shanghai so we took it fairly easy. We decided to go to the Muslim Quarter, somewhere we had heard about, but didn’t really know much about. This was a great area, a labyrinth of streets filled with small food stalls, souvenir places and everything in-between. What we like about these places that in the centre of them there are vendors preying targeting appealing to the tourists. Vendors more than happy to offer their wares, tourists more than happy to pay.

However, as you move away from the busier areas you end up in the more locals market areas. It can be more tricky here as you are thrown those ‘looks’ of foreigners in their turf, but most are welcoming with a smile. It’s great to see the local produce, and the butchers with their meat on the street front; without cooling or anything to protect from the hustle and bustle of the streets and the flies in some cases. Having said that, the meat did look good though.

We picked up some lunch here, and it was delicious. Another one of those where you use an unspeakable language, but we got the message across and lunch ended up costing no more than a couple of dollars each. Good fresh food from the street.

Off now to get a flight to Shanghai!

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