Yinchuan (Ningxia Province)

China Hui Ethnic Culture Park

museum in the Hui Culture Park

mosque in the Cultural Park (not used though)

Najiahu old mosque, partly rebuilt, 20 km from Yinchuan

Najiahu Mosque - minaret

Najiahu - local butcher - note the chickens, can you see their legs?

taxi in Najiahu

Western Xia Imperial Tombs- the Western Xia (Daxiang ethnic minority) ruled over North West China from 1038 to 1227. They wrote with characters, but different ones from Han Chinese.

"cha-cha" containing the ashes of dead people, like in Bhutan nowadays. The Daxiang people were Buddhists.

alley to one of the tombs (there are more than 200 tombs).

Tomb no 3

Nanguan Mosque, in the centre of Yinchuan

Bell tower - Yinchuan

public writer

shopping street - Yinchuan

black neck cranes statues - nice reminder of the (real) ones we saw in Bhutan a few weeks ago.