After breakfast our entire group--at least 40 people --left for Jerash. Jerash (Gerasa) was one of the ten Roman cities known as the Decapolis , most of which are in Jordan. Jerash is amazingly large and well preserved.
Roman roads had had a main east/west road which intersected a main north/south road in the middle
Byzantine mosaic of Alexandria
Roman temple--the roof had moonstone in it which allowed light in
there were a lot of columns everywhere
city entrance:
part of our group
One of the aunts cooked a special dinner for us, beans and tomatoes from the garden. Since we're vegetarian, we've been eating rice and potatoes and bread for supper, so this was a really nice change. The restaurants all have a wide variety of salads and hummus/baba ghanoush which works well for us. But feeding a large group of people where meat is a symbol of showing importance means that we had rice with meat most of the time with potatoes/meat otherwise.
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| Our Veggie Dinner |
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