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Old June 3rd, 2005, 02:06 AM
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Default where is Aynwardo?

I'm in Kayseri (central Anatolia) at the moment. I and my
girlfriend intend to visit the Suryani sites described in
William Dalrymple's "From the Holy Mountain" and in a recent
2-CD set from Kalan Muzik (Istanbul) of Suryani music. One
place mentioned in both is "Ayn Wardo" (I think Dalrymple
spells it differently). I can't find it on any map under any
phonetic variant of that.

http://members.home.nl/midyad/articles/lausanne_un.htm


Thanks. We didn't get there after all - after being ripped
off by a Mardin taxi driver for a dismally disappointing visit
to Deir-ul-Zaferan, having a much better time in Mardin city,
seeing several other Christian sites in Midyat, and feeling
the weather turn into a hot humid fug, we decided we'd seen
enough of that sort of thing and went to Hasankeyf and Istanbul
instead, where it was cooler and we could do what we wanted
by walking or public transport. (A bit cooler and Ayn Wardo
would have been in walking distance of Midyat).

The Syrian Orthodox Resources website is pretty good, and local
Christians (outside of bloody Deir-ul-Zaferan) are helpful to
gawking foreigners. But it's odd there's no dolmus service to
Ayn Wardo (or "Annwarrt" as it seems to be pronounced in Kurdish),
it seems big enough to need one. The maintainer of the village
website (visually excellent) doesn't respond to email.

Did I mention that as a tourist attraction Deir-ul-Zaferan is a
waste of time that makes Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace look like
a good deal?

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