Amman, Jordan – view from the Arab Tower Hotel. The mosque in the picture is the Al-Husseiny Mosque
Happy New Year People!
2017 doesn’t seem to have started out very well with yours truly here. Was down with fever on New Year’s Day. Justin too. And the wife cracked her nice Samsung Galaxy S7 (last year’s birthday present) on the tarmac a few days back. Repairs will cost 45% of a brand new S7!!! That blinking piece of Samsung glass will cost the same as my brand new Redmi friggin Note 4?!? WTF! The wife’s not gonna get it fixed. She reckoned it’ll stick well enough with a screen protector on top not to have the pieces of glass fall off! Oh well, that’s her choice!
Anyway, I’m continuing my post on Jordan, since I’m already at it. Amman, the capital of Jordan, was built on 7 hills, like Rome! …Ya, friggin Rome?! (Everything’s about Rome in ancient times, OK?) People like to build cities on 7 hills. There’s just something about 7 hills that makes cities good. Don’t believe me? Just google ‘City on Seven Hills’ and you’ll get a long list of cities, starting with Rome. Try googling ‘City on Eight Hills’, or heck! ‘Ten Hills’, and you’ll probably get zilch for your results.
Amman has since expanded to cover 19 hills (but nobody shouts about that). Nineteen? Not a cool number. Like Rome, Amman has its own Roman theatre, temples and other Roman things! I guess, Rome was the one to follow then. Here’re some photos of Amman and its Roman remains!
One of our first glimpses of Amman when coming from the Airport – wow, nice view …what’s with the trash strewn all over the field? Some sort of art work?
The streets of Amman, Jordan
A view of the Roman Theatre & Hashemite Square (the space around the theatre) from atop the Citadel
A closer view of the Roman Theatre – the ancients didn’t really think of photographers when they built this place. Don't they know that it’ll always be shrouded in shadows if they build it on the northern slope of a hill? How are people gonna get a nice lighted shot of it??
More views of Amman from the Citadel
The Temple of Hercules …or what’s left of it, Amman Citadel, Jordan
I have no idea what this is, …at the Amman Citadel
Anu and a tree, Amman Citadel, Jordan
Jayden at the lobby of our hotel in Amman. Chess must be a favourite hobby here?
2 comments:
Oh wow.. it's similar to Greece
Izit? I thought Greece would be nicer? The Mrs & I have wanted to visit Greece since 2008, ...but money doesn't grow on trees, and there's just too little leave for more vacations!
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