Journey North Mystery Class Spring 2006

Mystery Class

Clues from your Mystery Friends

#1:

"Our current country's flag has the colors blue, white and red. In our province, the road signs are written in two alphabets, Cyrillic and Latin. It is said that the majority of people in this province want to be independent from the current country. In fact, our province is not really run by the government of our country; instead it is run by a UN mission."

#2:

"Our country is predominantly mountainous, with major mountain ranges in both the east and west of our country. "

"Our country is near the ancient 'silk road'. The 'ikat' pattern on the dresses that women where in this photo mimics a distinctive pattern of silk weaving."

#3:

"In our state you can build a snowman ...

...and go snorkeling in the same day."

#4:

"Our province or 'department' is one of the country's smallest (in area), but one on the most densely populated."

#5:

"Our state is home to one of the busiest airports in our country and Europe, as well as this beautiful skyline in one of our cities. "

#6:

"With the exception of an occasional gull-like bird that gets blown off course, there is no animal life here at our location. The closest coast line is around 700 miles away."

#7:

"This animal has been reintroduced here, and is said to have been confused with the mythical unicorn."

Audio Bonus!
"Want to know what
'salaam alaikum' means?"

#8:

"We have no states or provinces here. But we have both wild and domestic species like the one in this photo. It will cost you about 3,000 riyals here."

#9:

"Our state is one of only a few in our country that has area outside the tropics. "

#10:

"Our national music is Mu_am, most often improvisational vocals and played with our national instruments, the tar, the kamancha and the cylindrical drum naghara."