Pictures/Videos from the Citadel/Kerak/Dead Sea/Al-Mazra Tomb of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib

The Dead Sea

"But Lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt"

More Dead Sea! But it wasn't dead-it was sparkling and pulsing in the heat!

Outside of the tomb of Ja'far. He was one of the first martyrs of Islam.

Both of his arms were cut off in battle, and the Prophet PBUH had a vision of him in Heaven with wings. He was the brother of Ali.

Most of the crew and all of us who went to the Citadel!

View of Amman from the hill.

Roman theatre

Ancient fortresses no more than dust and ruble

The old masjid. I have a video of the inside that I'll include!

Citadel

Another view of the mosque

Inside the masjid

The garden--I love anything green I find here, and this was lush and shady!

More masjid!

Stone door, the children were knocking on it, opening it, etc. I love how you can do whatever you want, go where ever you want at these sites. They really let you interact with the space and it makes everything a lot more real and touching.

Secret stairs!

Beautiful details.

A tomb of lions

The largest ruins--and an excellent place to climb and monkey around!

A pretty area in the shade to look out over Amman!

The archaeology museum!

 Beautiful green tree in the middle of the ruins covered in gorgeous red flowers. I hope you can see it--in the middle of the desert all color is beloved!

A Roman statue, well preserved

 Roman statue in the Citadel Archaeology Museum

Islamic art

 Treasures of the Islamic era

Roman era statue

View from Kerak

 Kerak

Lookout windows at Kerak

 What a view, huh?

 Kerak

 A statue of Salahudin, hero of the Muslim/Arab forces during the later Crusades. He led an attack on Kerak that was dispelled by his and the King of Jerusalem's efforts at diplomacy.

Our buddy just trying to fit into the culture.

 Sitting on top of Kerak. Living the life.

The view from where I was sitting in the picture above!

 

The hand of Hercules (Citadel)

Ruins of the Roman citadel

Can't wait to swim in the Dead Sea!!

So pretty!