Kerak
Headed off after hotel confusion – vouchers to pay etc.
We still cannot remember what that hotel confusion was, so it must have been relatively minor even though I felt it worthy of writing down – perhaps I thought there might be some come back on our return to blighty.
We had a whistle-stop ride through the posh suburbs of Amman on our way out towards Petra:
Saw Mount Nebo (including Moses Tomb!) and church relics. Then St George’s Church in Madaba ([including] map mosaics).
Then on to Kerak (another Crusader castle!) And lunch of mousakhan [or Musakhan].
We absolutely fell in love with that tasty yet simple Palestinian chicken dish, Musakhan, just as we had fallen in love with the lamb dish Mansef a couple of days earlier. 25 years on, such dishes have become well known through celebrity chefs such as Yotam Ottolenghi, but back then we only knew to ask for them because Janie’s Middle-Eastern clients gave her such good notes ahead of our trip.
Then on down the Kings Highway for more vistas and Shoubak (another Crusader castle) [aka Montreal Castle] as the temperature dropped!
Arrived in Petra in time for glorious sunset, meeting with agent to sort out the hotel confusion and arrange tomorrow night’s “last night of touring feast”.
A placeholder & links covering the whole journey can be found through the link here and below:
All the photos from the Jordan leg of our journey can be found here or below:
