Karak and Madaba

Well, half way done on the project so we had to drive up to the capital, Amman to pick up the newest volunteers. Road trip!


We stopped at the crusader castle of Karak, perched high above the town on a slope that would make attack very treacherous. It's a fine site, and fun to wander around, but nothing to make a special trip for I suppose. Maybe I'm just spoiled.

Then we took the King's Highway north to the town of Madaba where there is a Christian population and some mosaics from 179AD ( I think) showing a map of the world which now, in it's mostly destroyed state, shows Jerusalem (shown), the dead sea, the Nile, the Mediterranean and even Karak, where we just were. It's in a rebuilt church and it's like zipping back to Europe for a few minutes before you hear the call to prayer again.

Home the next day along the Dead Sea and back to the kitchen. Twenty-six more meals to go.