August’s photo depicts the Abu Darwish Mosque on Jebel al-Ashrafiyaeh hill in Amman, Jordan.
Six readers sent in the correct answer, and SIGNE HAUGEN of San Carlos, California, won the drawing.
We thank Mark A. Varnau of Indianapolis, Indiana, for sending in the photo.
Religion in the round. . . Twenty-one readers correctly guessed that May’s photo depicts St. Donat’s Cathedral in Zadar, Croatia.
RICHARD & BERNITA BREWER of Pleasant Hill, California, won the drawing.
We thank Robert Golden of San Francisco, California, for sending in the picture.
Love and laughter. . . January’s picture shows the 25-meter-tall statue of the Maitreya Buddha at the Likir Gompa (temple) in Ladakh, India. Maitreya is also known as “the laughing one” and “the compassionate, loving Buddha.”
Mystery solved! Really, is there anywhere ITN readers haven’t been? (And, in this case, any when, too!)
16 days, 15 nights, Oct. 23-Nov. 7, 2014 & April 16-May 1, 2015. Highlights: In Tehran, the Archaeological, National Jewels, Glass & Ceramics, and Carpet museums/Grand Tehran Bazaar/in Shiraz, Eram Garden, teahouse/in Persepolis, remains of palaces of Darius the Great and Xerxes/in Yazd, Zoroastrian Fire Temple/in Isfahan, Cathedral of Vank, Friday Mosque/in Kashan, garden of Fin. Land, $4,560. Single supp., $566. Airfare Tehran-Shiraz, approx. $175. (New prices in 2015.)
by Karen Wells; Traverse City, MI
While my wife, Jane, and I were on a group tour of Taiwan in May 2013, we decided to take a side trip via train to Tainan, four hours south of the country’s capital, Taipei. We knew there were several Taoist temples in Tainan.
Traveling by train was easy there. About six weeks before our trip, I ordered the train tickets for our trip to Tainan online. We picked them up at the station.
Standing in the town of Kaolack, in western Senegal, I saw the towering Grand Mosque, pride of the Tijaniya brotherhood. With their contributions, it has become larger and larger with gleaming marble additions.— GALEN R. FRYSINGER, Sheboygan, WI
