Discovering the beautiful landscapes, the lively cities and the archaeological beauties of Jordan

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02. 12. 2007 Amman (Jordan)
We land in this mysterious city. From only a few lights ...
We in Jordan, how exciting! These are the places where Jesus lived in many places these days through mystical, often heard reading the Bible or the Gospel or the sermons of our parish priests during mass ... I am a bit ignorant on the subject, today, I can tell just yet, but I'll know more during our tour, after traveling also means learning.
Amman welcomes us as an Arab Cancun. Many McDonalds, KFC, Burger King with features colorful banners written in Arabic.
Jordan is a pro-Western nation. King Hussein, maker of blood in September 1972 where he massacred thousands of Palestinians, was saved thanks to the Americans. To soften the hearts we thought the son Abdallah, marrying the beautiful and noble Palestinian Rania.
Diplomatic marriage? I do not know, I know only that the current Queen of Jordan is wonderful!
03. 12. 2007 Umm Qeis (JORDAN)
We visit the city of Umm Qeis (Biblical name: Gadara). From here we could see the Golan Heights and Lake Tiberias in the distance. Too bad I do not know the sacred texts, I would have appreciated even more this visit.
This city, now uninhabited, the remains of two ancient civilizations: the Roman and Byzantine. There were Roman amphitheatres, Byzantine mosaics, and even the remains of a church ...
From here we proceed to Jerash (the old Jerash), only ruins along the roads, dirt and destruction. What bad effect!
We stop to visit a small mill ... A spectacular olive oil ... What perfume! That gold color ... I imagined, with a little watering, a slice of warm bread and a drizzle of that oil ... I've got a lot of that will, once I am in the hotel had prepared a platter of lettuce with olives, which floated on that oil. What goodness! The natural things are always the most good.
Jerash was a mixture of Luxor and Pompeii. Very big, too full of the remains of the Roman period and background all white town perched on a hill. Beautiful card, oval square, the Ninfeo, the Temple of Diana (or Artemis). Every time he felt the call of "muezzim" from the minaret, which made even more memorable exploration of the site.
Almost all houses are built of blocks of white stone that comes from the many quarries in Jordan.
Returning to Amman try to arrange a visit to the Holy Land contacting local travel agencies. But that adventure ...
In the late afternoon with a taxi, go downtown. What a beautiful walk along the avenues of the city ...
Amman. Only the name fascinates me and excites. When I think I remember when I was a child and my father questioned me about the capital. "The capital of Jordan?" - "Amman". And now here I am!
How strange to walk among people with "kafeeyah" red paintings, veiled women, some with impressive black burka, near shops selling gold and exposed as being out of sausages at a butcher shop, no doors, no guards ... So no one steals here, they cut their hands or else!
I was disappointed just the "souk (Arab market), I expected something more romantic instead of dell'accozzaglia shops, rigorously showing portraits of King Hussein Abellah or placed in many different ...

04. 12. 2007 Qasr al-Kharanah (JORDAN)
[Nick]: Amman is entirely built on seven hills (like Rome), it now has nineteen and there are also some areas inhabited by Palestinian refugees.
Gadara yesterday I was very impressed inscription left near a Roman tomb ... He recited these verses: "To you that walking yesterday I was here today ... I like you and you're like me tomorrow ... so fun! Already know in Roman times but today, in 2007, there are still people who did not understand ...
This morning we visited Bethany, the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, the site is nothing exceptional but is moving to the historical significance and religious importance. We were five meters from the border with Israel marked the passage of the Jordan River.
Later we went for a swim in the Dead Sea. Its salinity is 33%, that strange feeling forced the waterline.
The water was pretty cold and I had no towel, or something dry to change! But of course I could not to miss such an opportunity ... In the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, we stripped and dived into the water ... I came immediately to mind when I was a kid and saw a picture in a travel brochures: there was a man lying and floating comfortably read a newspaper, almost as if it were a chair. We have done us well and we enjoyed it very much.
In the afternoon we reached some caravan-clamps, "Qasr al-Kharanah, located on the road that goes into the heart of the Middle East. He was previously a very important place of rest, "motel", to use a more modern term for the camel drivers who went to Persia.
It 'been exciting to see the signs indicating the border with Saudi Arabia (50 km) or Iraq (250 km). A few hundred miles from us is a bloody war!
Take the long strip of asphalt in the middle of the desert, traveling along the same when Western journalists during the two Gulf wars, tried to enter Iraq through Jordan ...
[Nick]: Today I received confirmation that the Jordanian taxi drivers are too strong! Tonight he told us that was illegal in Germany thanks to a visa and false documents purchased in Czechoslovakia to the figure of $ 1000 ... Also was well in Oslo and showed us all the pictures, among other things, exposed in the taxi!
He did not know where he was the least our hotel and stopped 800 times to request information by offering a free tour of Amman by night!


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