Great First Day!

Above is Mitch Swartzentruber and Brian Neyhart at Hesbon below is a view of Karak castle.

Greetings


All is well. We are at Petra now and I am writing from an internet cafe.

We had a good day. We went up Tell Hesban famous from the Old Testament.

Then we drove on to Mt. Nebo which has a nice little museum. This is the place where Moses viewed the Promised Land. We were there today which is exactly 10 years since John Paul II visit.

Then on to Madaba and the church of St George which has the oldest map of the Holy Land on its floor . It is map of millions of small tesserae.

Then we drove to Karak. He we ate lunch and toured the fine Crusader castle.

Then on to Petra we arrived after dark. The days are shorter this time of year.

The weather is wonderful and also many of the hills are green now.

Tomorrow we visit the amazing site of Petra.

John Wineland
Petra, Jordan