The path to the treasury was surrounded by over 1200 candles.
The candles were in bags to prevent them from blowing out.
They were real candles.
When the canyon was narrow, you could see part of the walls.
When we got to the end we got our first glimpse of the treasury by candlelight.
Then after some music they turned on some floodlights and made it flash red and white.
And then colour change to lots of colours like blue.
And pink. 
Kerak Castle was built in the 11th century when the area was conquered during the crusades.
The crusaders built it very quickly with whatever materials were available, mostly bits of old castles that once stood on this site. So there are bits of Roman columns.
And carvings.
The doors are built so that you have to turn off of the bridge to enter, so that you can’t hit them with battering rams.
It has teeny tiny little peepholes just big enough for one person to stand in.
The ceiling above where the important people lived is very thick.
Here is one of the ovens or kitchens.
This was where the horses were kept with more roof holes to see what’s happening below.
Not much is left of the higher floors due to attacks and the earthquakes. Here you can see the nearby city in the distance.
Here is what’s left of the second and third floors.
Kerri could only be the king of the castle from the second floor, this was still higher than anyone else was at the time though.
Madaba has a lot of old churches with giant floor mosaics.
Most of the damage on this one has been done by chickens pecking at the stones. Which is probably why they left the chicken images alone.
The stones that make up the images are very small.
The camels and palm trees are very good.
But this tiger bear looks very strange.
Back in the day when we were learning to drive GPS was really expensive so we had to get these big paper maps from the AMA.
Back before the AMA people had to actually pay money for big paper maps.
Back in the 6th century when paper was really expensive and people couldn’t afford it, tourists had to stop by this church to figure out where they were going.
The map was 21m x 7m and made of over two million little stones. But at least you couldn’t hold it upside down and get confused.
The boat is in the Dead Sea, and below it (which is West, because we’re standing at the back of the church, and churches face East) in the big oval is Jerusalem.
That is the Nile over on the right.
Unfortunately the map was defaced by the Persians when the area was conquered, then hit by an earthquake and multiple fires. So it has some holes. But we’re just going wherever the tour bus takes us anyway.
There were lots of other mosaics in the church. Even the plaque telling you which church you are in is a mosaic.
They also did lots of Bible scenes. Like the time Jesus was patted on the head by John the Baptist while walking on water to rescue a tiny drowning man with wings. But those mosaics are newer and not in the guide book so nobody cares.
We went to the top of Mount Nebo, which some people say is where Moses got to view the whole of the Holy Land. Moses must have had better weather. Everything you can see here is in Jordon. Israel is lost in the fog.
