Blogs from North, Jordan, Middle East - page 5

Over the last two days we continued our journey through the wonderful country of Jordan. Yesterday we visited Mt. Nebo, the traditional site from where Moses first gazed upon the Promised Land, and the city of Madaba. Madaba is most famous for the mosaic map of the Holy Land on the Byzantine Church of St. George. Today, we visited the ancient cities of Amman and Jerash; these sites mark the final two stops on this two month journey throughout Turkey, Greece and the Holy Land. I have done my best to capture some of the sights, sounds, feelings and spirituality of this journey of learning and pilgrimage. As I come to the end of this journey, I find myself short on words. Thank you for allowing me to share a bit of this experience with you. ... read more

26 septembre 2015 - Jour 3 Aujourd'hui, direction le nord, une région beaucoup plus verte que ce que nous avons vu hier. Nous faisons une première halte à Umm Qais, une ancienne cité romaine construite avec un mélange de pierres blanches et noires qui lui donne un style très particulier. Comme d'habitude la ville est située à un endroit très stratégique, d'où l'on a une vue imprenable sur la vallée du Yarmouk, un affluent du Jourdain. C'est aussi ici qu'eut lieu le miracle des cochons réalisé par le Christ mais j'ai pas compris en quoi ça consistait. Puis direction la ville d'Ajlun et sa forteresse quasi-imprenable. L'édifice est très bien conservé et les techniques de défense sont extrêmement bien pensées en dépit de leur simplicité. C'est Saladin qui a fait construire ce fort pour arrêter les ... read more

ItsSunday morning 7 am went to bed last night about 7pm straight after tea we all had kebabs (cubes of meat ) but with no stick it was delicious abrahams choice yesterday we didnt do what we intended, we walked in the morning to a greek orthodox church which has the oldest map of Palestine in the world in the form of a mosaic on the floor then we walked back to the hotel in 2 groups i went with the boys and the others went later both groups got lost and we walked in circles for about an hour till jordan remembered seeing a sign of the hotel next to ours Delilah and the other group arived just before us just after we got back Abraham apeared and so we all got into 2 vehicles ... read more

Finally arrived in amman airport after 12hr flight from KL arrived 5am this morning and moved into our hotel Mariam in madaba 34 km from Amman we are about to have breakfast although we are alone in the dining room as it is Ramadam here and no-one eats or drinks from sunrise to sunset for 1 month when Abraham gets here about 10am we are going to amman to see the roman ruins of citadel and theatre and to the Jabock river... read more

Hi mum and any one else, on friday the3rd of july we head off on malaisan air to KL and then to amman in jordan hopefully I can keep you informed of our travels by this blog, enjoy ps I dont have a good track record of keeping people informed when im away so dont be dissapointed if this is the only thing you see posted here see you in 3 weeks or in jerusalem.... read more