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Desert Castles
Today I headed to east of Amman to the desert castles area. I went with two French girls, a women from Thailand an myself. The desert castles are a strong of ruined pavillions, merchants' inn, hunting lodges, and forts known collectively as the desert castles. Some of the castles date back to the Damascus based Umayyads (AD 661-750) in the early years in Islam. The desert castles were once rich with decorated mosaics, frescoes, marble, plaster and painted stucco. ...
Desert Castle's
On this day i joined 4 other people to go out to the east of Amman to see the islamic castles. I mark Azraq on the map as it was the 1 furthest east and i couldn't locate the others!
The first 1 situated just off the road in the desert was call Al-Kharaneh, it is definately a castle of sorts but by it's layout and location it was doubtful that it was actually there to defend anything, more of a stop of route for the caravans many years ago.
Next it was on ...
Desert Castles, Jerash and the Iraqi Border
by Karl
We organised a tour through the hotel of the desert castles, Jerash and the ruins of Umm Qais (60 JD). We went with a British couple (Gary and Kirsti) who we meet at the hotel who were in Jordan for a week having a quick holiday.
[Kat: It's so weird – we travelled huge distances to get to the middle east, it’s so exotic, etc. etc. and yet Brits can fly here for $200 round trip on EasyJet! It’s kind of like what ...
Les châteaux du désert
... qui ont régné sur ce qui était le plus grand territoire musulman de l’histoire, de l’an 650 à l’an 750. Damascus en Syrie était leur capitale. Les châteaux du désert avaient pour eux différentes fonctions. Nous en visiterons quatre qui comptent parmi les plus anciennes constructions d’art islamique au monde.
Premier arrêt : Qusr Al-Hallabat. Nous empruntons, à pied, un sentier de sable qui longe les ruines ...
Desert "Castles"
It was a reasonably early start for the trip to the Eastern Desert (which stretches from Amman for about 350km to the Iraq and Saudia borders). I was expecting it to be the standard minibus, but it turned out to be a car with only myself, a Dutch couple and another Dutch guy. After about an hour's drive through barren desert of mostly black volcanic pebbles on a single lane highway full of oil tankers and trucks heading to and from Iraq, Kuwait ...
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