Like the other pueblos in the Cibola forest area, Qurai was abandoned after drought and increased attacks by the Apache. Most pueblo residents moved to settlements and pueblos in the Rio Grande valley, like Isleta.

Here’s a larger version of the same panorama.

Quarai is part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions.

Also visited the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, too.

Another panorama, this time horizontal, from Turkey. This is of Cappadocia, in central Turkey, taken from the edge of a cliff (you can probably tell from the shots) on a not-so-well-traveled trail we hiked in the historical park and Unesco World Heritage Site in Goreme.

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Here’s another panorama from pictures taken from the top of Uchisar Castle.

If you’ve been by Yellahoose to see the photos there you know that we very highly recommend visiting Goreme.

This is a stitched vertical panorama taken inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

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The pano sort of communicates the scale of the interior of the mosque, but… like most places we saw in Turkey and had known or read about before we went seeing them these places definitely left you with a loss for words. Ayasofya is the most obvious structure that will leave you feeling literally and figuratively much, much, much smaller. The Blue Mosque, overlooking the Sultanahmet neighborhood where we stayed and a huge visual presence from the rooftop patio of our hotel, was another.

Here’s another panorama made from pictures taken inside the Ayasofya.

This was done with a (relatively) cheap Canon OneShot digital camera, and the images were touched up in Photoshop and stitched using DoubleTake, which I bought over the Internet while in Cappadocia. (And while talking via Skype with my youngest brother while late afternoon call-to-prayers where being sung out in Goreme, in the valley below the inn we were staying.) (Not that I spent any time on the Internet.)