Photo of the Day: Sand Dune Climbing in Wadi Rum

East West Students Climbing a sand dune- not exactly a day at the beach

I stayed cool in the shade of the pick up

Here's a better idea of where we were

Ancient Ajloun Castle

After almost 2 years in Jordan, I finally made it to Ajloun with my orientation group at Qasid Arabic Institute. Without further ado, the trip in pictures.

On the roof of Ajloun castle built in 1184. OLD!

It was so much bigger inside than I thought it would be-- never taken by force, super defensible on a mountain peak

I think the guide said this was where they poured defensive boiling oil, most on crusaders, I think.

On a clear day you can see Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights to the north and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem to the south-west.

Messenger pigeons lived in this tower and took messages to Damascus or Cairo in 12 hours and Baghdad in 24 hours

The millennia old city of Ajloun

ancient oil lamps