Once more with the pictures
Aug. 20th, 2005 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniOur next stop was in Pella, a mostly Byzantine site near the border with Israel. The remains themselves aren't that extraordinary but the natural site was beautiful.
I wish my pictures could show how pretty it was, hilly with various colours.
And of course there were columns...
The Jordanians thought we were crazy to visit that site at the worst moment (around 12 pm). As an old saying says: at such time only the French and dogs are outside! But in that case, and later in the Wadi Rum, even the dogs were not outside...
In Ajlun we visited the castle built by one of Saladin's ally, then we went to visit Um Qeis, also known in the bible as Gadara (the episode in which Jesus cured the possessed peole). It was again one of the Decapolis cities. From there you can see Golan Height and the Tiberias Lake. It's a big site with many interesting remains but my favourite one was those two parts:
the basilica and its atrium (the basalt makes a beautiful contrast)
and "the street of shops"
Of course I had to play the shopkeeper!
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Date: 2005-08-20 04:12 pm (UTC)I really like the one of you...you fit right in. :)
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Date: 2005-08-20 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 07:02 pm (UTC)Bon je regarde Lost là...
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Date: 2005-08-20 09:23 pm (UTC)At Um Qeis is the 'street of shops' actually off to the left and underneath of your picture of the the basilica and its atrium? So that the roof of the 'shops' is the floor of the basilica and its atrium? Just lookes that way to me since you can see the columns above the 'shops' in your photo.
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Date: 2005-08-21 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-28 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-28 05:17 pm (UTC)It's weird because I don't think I look anything like her (maybe the profile because she does have a nose too!).
And I thought that everybody has a sex tube!