AZRAQ CASTLE LAWRENCES HQ.QASRS (CASTLES) DOT THE LANDSCAPE AT STRATEGIC LOCATIONS FOR DEFENCE OR ALONG TRADE ROUTES FOR SAFE OVERNIGHT STAYS.A LOT WERE TRIBAL ADDED TO BY A SUSSESSION OF ROMANS,CRUSADERS AND WARLORDS.MANY SURVIVE IN GOOD NICK.
ROMAN GATE AT AZRAQ -CANTILEVERED WOULD CLOSE WITH YOUR BACK PUSHING AGAINST IT.
MUSLIM FOCES BUILT A MOSQUE HERE 16 CENTURY MAMALUKES.
CRUSADER HORSE STABLES 11TH CENTURY.
UMMAYYAD PERIOD WATER DAM 7 TH CENTURY.ONCE A WILDLIFE WONDER OF THE WORLD FOR THOUSANDS MIGRATORY BIRDS.WATER PUMPED TO AMMAN DROPPED 20 FEET-NO WATER,NO WILDLIFE NO FUTURE AZRAQ!!
TYPICAL CARAVANSERAI STOP FOR CAMEL TRAINS OVERNIGHT.
LOTS OF MILITARY BASES IN DESERT.FIGHTER PLANES ZOOMING ABOUT.
THE ROMAN RUINS AT JERASH VERY SPECTACULAR.THIS IS ENTRANCE TO TOWN-HADRIAN'S ARCH.
THE HIPPODROME -15 THOUSANDS COULD WATCH CHARIOT RACING.PROBABLY THE BAN ON BETTING STARTED WAY BACK THEN!!
TRAINING.
OVAL PLAZA -TOWN CENTRE
TEMPLE OF ZEUS.
SOUTH THEATRE.JORDANIAN PIPER PLAYING JORDANIAN MUSIC ON SCOTTISH PIPES.SURE PIPES HAD THEIR ORIGIN IN THE N=MIDDLE EAST AND WERE CLAIMED BY THE CELTS.HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A DRUMMER.NO HINT OF AMAZING GRACE-THANK ALLAH.
BETTER VIEW OF OVAL PLAZA.
RUINS COVERED A HUGE AREA-ROMAN TEMPLES TAKEN OVER BY CHURCHES THEN MOSQUES IN THE PREDICTABLE EVOLUTION OF THINGS RELIGIOUS.
THESE CORINTHIAN COLUMNS REMAINED AFTER SEVERAL DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES.CHCH ANGLCANS TAKE NOTE -THEY WILL LAST LONGER THAN CARDBOARD-DIG DEEPER YOU TIGHT WALLETED GITS!!!
JUST JERASH!!
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