Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Nov 27, 2008: From Petra to Mt Nebo

    Itinerary
  • Madaba (11:05)
  • Mt Nebo (12:01)
  • Mosaic Handicrafts (13:08)
  • Transfer to airport, plane departed 4:05pm

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

Looking from the back of the Crown Plaza toward the mountains

nov 27 5796 crown plaza

A distant village

nov 27 5799 distant village

More caves

nov 27 5809 caves

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

nov 27 5814 jordan desert

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

nov 27 5817 jordan desert

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

nov 27 5824 desert

Looks like some sort of mobile computer repair service

nov 27 5826 laptop repair

Waiting

nov 27 5828 waiting

Waiting

nov 27 5831 waiting

Deserted desert

nov 27 5832 desert

Mobile tent

nov 27 5840 tent

Local speed trap

nov 27 5850 speed trap

Making Concrete

nov 27 5854 making concrete

A group of tents in the wadi

nov 27 5855 desert tents

Another deserted village

nov 27 5858 empty village

Railway bridge

nov 27 5860 rail bridge

And the railway + village

nov 27 5862 rail village

Speed trap that trapped

nov 27 5864 speed trap

Alone

nov 27 5866 alone

Truck repair

nov 27 5871 desert repair

A herd of sheep and goats

nov 27 5872 sheep goats

This way to Amman, Airport and Al Karak

nov 27 5876 sign

A large tent

nov 27 5883 tent

A small shop with lots of cans of stuff

nov 27 5889 desert shop

A lonely solar array

nov 27 5890 solar array desert

Engineering discussion

nov 27 5899 desert ride

Sheep and an olive grove

nov 27 5966 sheep farm

A street of Madaba

nov 27 5978 madaba busy street

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

nov 27 5987 greek church

Inside

nov 27 5988 greek church

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

nov 27 5992 moasic map

Walking back - carpet shops

nov 27 6009 carpet shops

Then on to Mt Nebo - the plan

nov 27 6020 mt nebo plan

A monument left by the Pope's jubilee visit

nov 27 6023 pope jubilee mt nebo

A memorial of Moses on Mt. Nebo

nov 27 6025 mt nebo stone

The site

nov 27 6027 mt nebo

A sculpture of a cross

nov 27 6029 nebo cross

Looking toward Israel

nov 27 6033 promised land

Stephen teaching

nov 27 6035 teaching

The countryside as we drove to Amman

nov 27 6043 country side amman

Stopping at a small shop where they were making mosaic art

nov 27 6055 making mosaic

Tree of life

nov 27 6066 makiing mosaic

Placing a mosaic chip

nov 27 6071 placing mosaic

Making a mosaic image

nov 27 6091 making mosaic

Placing a chip

nov 27 6095 place mosaic

Cutting a chip

nov 27 6096 cutting

Painting a plate

nov 27 6097 painting

Kids

nov 27 6111 kids

More kids

nov 27 6112 kids

Urban camping as we near Amman

nov 27 6117 urban camping

Urban camping

nov 27 6130 urban camping

Sheep looking for water

nov 27 6143 sheep water

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C. Frank Starmer

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