Jordan

Here are just a few of the pictures from Jordan, we went there for the 2005/6 Mid Semester 1 Break.... Autumn Half Term to the rest of the world...

A few of the places worth visiting are Petra, a city built into the rock of the Mountains, as seen in the closing scenes of Indiana jones and the Last Crusade..

In the words of Rolf Harris...

‘Can you tell what it is yet...?’

Dams are built all around to stop the Chasm from flooding, despite this guides and clients have been killed here even in very recent years when caught unawares by suprise weather.

Beyond the Chasm and the Treasury there is a whole city carved out of rock!

This is the OLD truck that took us out into the desert!!! Everyone else got a new(ish) Toyota!

The romans had a great influence here in Petra as well as over the whole of Jordan. In Petra they tried not to destroy the rock city but instead used it as a working place and added to the area with roman streets, temples and ampitheatres.

At the beginning of the week we had also visited the city of Jaresh. Below you can see a little bit about this amazing city.

Jaresh, a roman city, where only 10% of the remains are currently uncovered BUT, wow, what a 10% they are... there are Collaseums, Ampitheatres, Roman Roads and Temples...

No trip to Jordan would be complete without a stop off in Wadi Rum... GIVE US OUR CLIMBING GEAR!!!! Wow, what a place, we took a ride in the back of a pickup truck to go exploring, this is somewhere we will return to!

Wow... What a view....

The Old Roman Citadel and Pre-Roman Church is in the city centre!

Mount Nebo is a very religious place, visited by Pope JP II in 2000. The small viewing platoform to the right is where he stood on that visit overlooking the holy lands. Mount Nebo marks the location of Moses resting place when he dies at the grand old age of 120.

Located overlooking the Dead Sea and Jerusalem it has an impressice vista.

On the right, a shot from within one of the local churches in Madaba, the city of Mosaics. This church contains a Mosaic on the floor showing a ‘Map of the Holy Lands’ and is believed to date back over 2000 years.

The map shows the location of Jerusalem and the major places around the Holy Lands.

The Dead Sea - late afternoon, clouds rolling in... And yes, you do float in the wierdest of manors... 400m below sea level, the lowest point on Earth!

A print taken from the 1st of the Dead Sea Scrolls, this was taken into copper to preserve it. The scrolls were discovered in a cave some 350m from the dead sea, hence the name. They are a chronicle of the times, a long time ago!!!


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