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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? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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