um qais, ajlun and jerash

Hello!

So yesterday was our first cultural trip to Um Qais, Ajloun and Jerash. It was absolutely amazing!

So Um Qais (pronounced am kayis) is the town on the other side of the sea of Galilee where Jesus went and cast the demons out of the pigs and then the pigs drowned themselves in the sea. Some of the ruins date back to 2 BC and there are also ruins of a Byzantine village which was made out of the ruins of the 2BC stuff. Oh yeah I’m totally up with archeology terminology! Anways half of it is made out of this basalt rock which is black and really cool. This best thing is that you can see Tiberius from the other side of the sea of Galilee and also The Golan Heights in Syria... Well occupied Syria.



Next we went to this amazing fortress on top of this crazy big hill which was the fortress that Saladin used. (the Muslim army leader in the crusades) So I got lots of cool photos from there.

Last we went to Jerash...and omgoodness!!! AMAZING!! The ruin are the best preserved outside of Rome, and they were just incredible. The photos tell it all...

So this week is the Eid holiday and today we stocked up on shopping coz there will be no shops open for the rest of the week. Alyson’s cooking as pasta tonight...spag bol! Haha we thought that this carton we bought was milk! And I’m craving milk right now... A cup of Milo! Anything!so we bought nesquick and milk and I took my first sip....and it was the most revolting thing EVER!!!!! Turns out that its milk AND SALTWATER!!!!!! Like who the hell thought of that combination and what could it possibly be used for!!! I don’t know! But the taste is still in my mouth and thinking about it makes me gag!

So not sure what we’re doing for the next couple of days. Probably some Arabic study! And some reading.

Love you all lots

Carly