Here we are in Madaba, the end of our second day and it only took 15 mins to work out how to change the instructions on the computer from Arabic to English & get started on this blog.
Madaba is full of c Churches and Mosques & is famous for its mosaics. We have sem some very beautiful & incredibly old stuff. We visited all th major sights in the town yesterday, walking about the vry confusing streets, made more confusing bcause of course all the street names are in Arabic, with the odd one in English. Still we saw St George's church across the road from our nice, basic hotel. We were alerted to the church by the very loud bll ringing at 7 am, followin the several calls to prayer during the night. The other places we saw were the town museum, the archeological park, Church of the Apostles (huge mosaic), while walking round we had to take great care as the pavements are mad, hole, fissures, lups, bumps some completely dug up, all sorts of obstructions, you certainly cant walk around with your head in the air.
Food great, people very friendly and unhassly, there seems to be a law that all boys under 16 must say hello to tourists.
Tessa
Today we got Ahmed the driver who brought us here from the airport (along with David an American on his way to Baghdad) to drive us to Mt Nebo and then onto the Dead Sea - where we floated as swimming is quite impossible, even getting your feet down onto the sand is difficult and just one quick taste of a salty finger has your mouth puckering up. On the way down the mountain to the Sea we passed a surprisingly large number of Bedouin tents and camps and large flocks of goats, sheep, some camels and donkeys all tended by single shepherds plus a few dogs, seeing and hearing the flocks with their bells looked like something straight out of biblical times. What is not out of those times or maybe it is) were the number of police road checks we had to get through (we are of course right next to the West Bank border) but with Ahmed with us there were no problems in getting through.
Tomorrow we are taking a minibus to Petra all being well - we will update you from there. Thanks for your comments which I see are there, we will read them as soon as we have successfully got this blog posted, and we might also attempt to get some photos added.
Brian
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Lovely to have your first post from Jordan, is that the country formerly known as 'Katie Price'? or maybe the other way round!
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