Jordan Festival

I finally made it to part of the Jordan festival a couple of nights ago. I’d been hearing about cool performances others had been to see and spur of the moment some friends took me along to the final show, by a famous Turkish musician, Mercan Dede & Whirling Dervishes : Secret Tribe

The music was super up beat and fun with an amazing hand drummer, an oboist/trumpeter, and some other stringed and wind instruments that I’m not sure exactly what they were. And whirling dervishes performed during a couple of pieces. I’d never seen them before…I think they lived up to the hype 🙂

The best part was the location. On top of a hill in the center of Amman, surrounded by Roman ruins and a Byzantine palace. All around us was the cool night air and the lights on the original seven hills of Amman.

Here’s what I managed to capture with my phone’s camera:

Outdoor Turkish concert

What my phone didn’t capture is that you could also see the mosque that’s so close to my house from the concert location. It looked so close. If only there was a cable car instead of the long twisty taxi ride to get there!

Ok, here’s my best shot from today, taken as I was walking to my friends’ apartment for iftar (fast breaking dinner…people here often refer to it as breakfast when they speak to me in English, much to my confusion).

Sunset

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