Jordan’s Desert and the Iraqi Border
Today, instead of attending our regular classes at UJ, we took a field trip to several the desert castles of Jordan. Check out my links at the bottom of the page and click on Jordan Tourism Map for a better idea of where the castles are. We drove east from Amman on the only road in that entire part of the country.
Here is a picture of the Azraq Castle, first built by the Romans and later occupied by the Muslims.
Here’s Curtis lecture at a dry well at the Amra castle, built as a Umayyad pleasure palace (with frescos of naked women inside.)
And here was very exciting moment in our trip, realizing that we were only 50km from the Saudi border and a few hours from the Iraq border.
Tags: Jordan, Travel
Katelyn
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