Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Our arrival (by bus) and departure (by plane) from Amman

Looking from the back of the Crown Plaza toward the mountains

A distant village

More caves

On the bus from Petra to Madaba - the local desert scenery

More desert. You can see someone made a vertical array of rocks to mark the path

More desert. Some sort of construction site, I guess.

Looks like some sort of mobile computer repair service

Waiting

Waiting

Deserted desert

Mobile tent

Local speed trap

Making Concrete

A group of tents in the wadi

Another deserted village

Railway bridge

And the railway + village

Speed trap that trapped

Alone

Truck repair

A herd of sheep and goats

This way to Amman, Airport and Al Karak

A large tent

A small shop with lots of cans of stuff

A lonely solar array

Engineering discussion

Sheep and an olive grove

A street of Madaba

Greek Orthodox Church - Agios Georgios (St. George), and the Greeks spelled this place Medaba apparently

Inside

On the floor is a mosaic map that was moved from somewhere to the church. It describes Jerusalem, the wall and the surrounding places

Walking back - carpet shops

Then on to Mt Nebo - the plan

A monument left by the Pope's jubilee visit

A memorial of Moses on Mt. Nebo

The site

A sculpture of a cross

Looking toward Israel

Stephen teaching

The countryside as we drove to Amman

Stopping at a small shop where they were making mosaic art

Tree of life

Placing a mosaic chip

Making a mosaic image

Placing a chip

Cutting a chip

Painting a plate

Kids

More kids

Urban camping as we near Amman

Urban camping

Sheep looking for water

C. Frank Starmer

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