Shobak Castle Wadi Musa

Wadi Musa , Jordan
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    Castle, Historic site

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    8of 11 attractions in Wadi Musa

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  • 1

    Dana Nature Reserve

    12 photos

    ... offers to drive us to the castle, and is happy to wait for us and take us on to the nature reserve. Too easy. Shobak castle (or what little remains) is a rather uninspiring crusader castle except for one thing. The escape tunnel. Armed with torches and ...

  • 2

    Cold morning at Shobak Castle

    32 photos

    ... on the side of a rocky mountain that was shaped like a cone, less than an hour north of Petra the impressive Shobak Crusader Castle could be seen through the fog as the driver carefully drove the motor coach up the hill and along the narrowed road ...

  • 3

    Tunnels

    ... at night almost as much as during the day, only with different colors. Today, we got up early and visited the remains of Shobak castle, which was build by the crusaders. Unlike the bigger and well-preserved castle of Kerak, there is no entrance fee here ...

  • 4

    Wadi Musa, Little Petra and Li Vaux Moise

    9 photos

    ... the road. The castle is Li Vaux Moise (al-Wueira) and was built by Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem as an outpost of Montreal (Shobak) castle.  It was abandoned in 1189, the last crusader castle to be left. No-one then took over, so it rapidly fell ...