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February 2010 issue

The cliff sanctuary of Yazılıkaya.

It is one thing to admire a mighty stone lion among the 3,000-year-old Hittite treasures in the Ankara Museum in Turkey and quite another, just hours later, to stand among the Hittite gods and kings themselves!

They are carved at every turn in the impressive cliff sanctuary of Yazılıkaya.

In this photo, Tamer Teoman of Teo World Culture Tours (New York, NY; 888/444-1110, www.teoworldculturetours.com) and I are standing in front of the god Sharrumma (in the tall crown), whose arm is around King Tudhaliya IV.

When our group strolled back down to the van, I stayed behind...

March 2011 issue

Masks

I collected masks throughout my travels and had several walls in my home covered, but I had to give most of them away when I moved into a smaller house. It was a nice hobby. I found that masks were easy to transport and didn’t break. It was harder to find them in strictly Muslim countries, where, for religious reasons, the depiction of living beings in art is not allowed.

ANN EDWARDS

Green Valley, AZ

March 2010 issue

Haka (war dance) at the Mitai Maori Village

New Zealand is a beautiful, sparsely populated country with warm, friendly people. We enjoyed it tremendously in February ’08 on a trip arranged through ElderTreks (Toronto, Ont.; 800/741-7956) and conducted by Walk ‘N’ Tours NZ.

However, although our tour was for three weeks, we felt we covered too much territory. Starting in Auckland, we traveled by 20-passenger coach through the North Island down to Wellington, by ferry across to the South Island, then down to Queensland and Milford Sound. We easily could have used an additional week.

Pictured here with a crown of ferns...

January 2011 issue

Church of St. David in Wales

For three days in May 2009, my wife, Rose, and I were shown around the Abergavenny part of Wales by good friends of ours from England, Betty and Alan Madden. The Angel Hotel was our base (July ’10, pg. 48).

On our way to see Brecon Beacons National Park in the Black Mountains (where, unfortunately, morning mist and overcast weather obscured many of the wonderful views), we stopped at the most memorable place we would visit on our Wales mini-tour: the Church of St. David.

About eight miles north of Abergavenny, we turned from a main road onto the narrow lane that snakes...