Larsa Hotel Amman

... , that Uriah the Hittite, the husband of Bathsheba was left exposed to die on the orders of David.   We arrived at the Larsa Hotel a little before 9:00 and dropped our luggage in our room, then headed down for a late dinner with the volunteers. We ...

... when these trade routes had to be protected from marauders.  Finally we climbed up to the elevation of Amman and found our way to the Larsa Hotel once again. How wonderful the air conditioning felt and a clean cool shower! We'll make it an early ...

... it all loaded. I put one fellow at least in each taxi, and made sure each had a business card from the Larsa Hotel where we were going in Amman. I also asked the taxi stand attendant to translate to each driver exactly where we needed to go. One taxi left ...

... the carved stone looked more like places to feed animals, but I'll let the archeologists debate that. Then we returned to Amman to the Larsa hotel once again for an early evening. We need our rest, because tomorrow camp activities begin and we'll start a ...

... a visit to the incredible site of Petra which was carved out of sandstone by the Nabataeans about BC 600. We then travelled back to Amman.  After dinner we got together for the last time as a group for reading, prayer and some time to reminisce about ...

... why Naaman might have preferred the rivers back home as the muddy Jordan looked something like the Torrens in drought. It was no more than 4 or 5 metres across, and forms the border between Israel and Jordan. Amman is our stopover for the night. ...

... ok with wearing my clothes churr murr. Breakfast time, gotta lock and load, and then hopefully the bowel movement will happen before we leave the hotel. hhahaahahhaha! there is a bus toilet, but im not sure I want to use that.  Signing off now!  ...

... home took about 34 hours of travel time, from the time we left the hotel in Aqaba.  We had a 1:45 am departure (ugh!) from Amman, a 5-hour flight to Paris, a 5-hour layover in Paris, an 8-hour flight to New York (JFK), a 3-hour layover in New York - ...