The king's Highway

Heavy stuff, Bart!

secret tunnel

The King's Highway is the historic route to Amman. The views are stunning and you can see Crusader castles in Karak and Shobak. Shobak was very small but had a very interesting secret tunnel. Our torches were not good enough to try to leave the castle this way, but still it was nice to venture around this castle. History in practise because there were arrow slid windows according to Bart and lots of armoury like the very heavy bullets for the catapults.

Karak castle was much bigger, with nice views, we even could see the Dead Sea. It also had a nice museum which told everything about the crusaders.

On the way up north we had to cross 3 wadi, or rivers. It is also known as the Grand canyon of Jordan. It is a spectacular valley about 1 km deep and over 4 km from one edge to the other. We found a hotel in Madaba, a very nice town, that also happens to be the centre of Byzantine mosaics. It is also the most important Christian centre in Jordan and there are many churches.

But we cannot wait to go to the Dead Sea.


Karak Castle