On Sunday morning we had our usual 6:00 a.m. wakeup call, 7:00 a.m. breakfast and were on the bus by 8:00 a.m. We backtracked toward the Dead Sea and then turned east toward Jordan.
Along the way we saw bedouin camps again. You may wonder why the camps are beside the roads and the reason is that many bedouins have cars. There are Israeli bedouins and they have compulsory education so many of them are beginning to live in homes rather than tents. The Palestinian bedouins don't have to attend school.
We arrived at the border at 9:00 a.m. It took 30 minutes to exit Israel and 20 minutes to enter Jordan. We traveled across the Jordan valley and then up to Mount Nebo where Moses was able to look across the Jordan river to the promised land, but he never was allowed to enter. The Fransciscans now own the land which they purchased from bedouins about 1940.
There were ruins from hundreds of years ago. Here is another mosaic floor.
More views from Mount Nebo.
A reminder of Moses' snake.
There is a nearby shop that gives women a chance to work and they make beautiful mosaics.
I picked out a beautiful mosaic topped table for our back yard. It would have cost $5,000. USD to buy and have it shipped home to Lethbridge.
Along the way we saw bedouin camps again. You may wonder why the camps are beside the roads and the reason is that many bedouins have cars. There are Israeli bedouins and they have compulsory education so many of them are beginning to live in homes rather than tents. The Palestinian bedouins don't have to attend school.
We arrived at the border at 9:00 a.m. It took 30 minutes to exit Israel and 20 minutes to enter Jordan. We traveled across the Jordan valley and then up to Mount Nebo where Moses was able to look across the Jordan river to the promised land, but he never was allowed to enter. The Fransciscans now own the land which they purchased from bedouins about 1940.
There were ruins from hundreds of years ago. Here is another mosaic floor.
More views from Mount Nebo.
A reminder of Moses' snake.
There is a nearby shop that gives women a chance to work and they make beautiful mosaics.
I picked out a beautiful mosaic topped table for our back yard. It would have cost $5,000. USD to buy and have it shipped home to Lethbridge.
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