Unfinished SYRIA AND PRACTICAL JORDAN (continued, ch.8) Our knowledgeable and skilled Jordanian tour guide decided to take us to the ruins of Jerash, which - thanks to that very well preserved - sometimes called the Pompeii East. Ruins occupy a very large area, and our guide was intended to explore the city before sunset. I guess he just checked to see how great our endurance and how strong will our patience. In general, our guide vigorously swept over the ruins, and we struggled to keep up with him. Arc de Triomphe, a hippodrome for horse races, churches, area, another temple, street with columns. Size of the city reached about two kilometers in diameter, it looked interesting and impressive. We left at sunset, very tired, but happy that visited here. Jerash, Jordan was more advanced than Syria, a country. Standard of living here is also significantly higher. This becomes noticeable on the roads, which have all the necessary markings and road signs, as well as in homes that are mostly completed and are in good condition. Our beautiful hotel, located in Amman, was well arranged. True, we had to pay for wireless internet access, which in poorer Syria, we have received for free. Apparently, this can be considered a sign of the commercial veins of Jordanians. Arab food we eat for a week, and despite the fact that she really liked us, diversity has never stopped anyone. We went to the bar "Champions" and ate there for the hamburgers in the U.S. surrounded by photographs of sports stars. This establishment is no different from hundreds of thousands of sports bars around the world. For us it was a sort of "reset". Friday from the ancient citadel offers a fantastic view over the city. Conglomeration of buildings hidden under a nearby hill slopes, and noise of city streets came up to us, and this fact for some reason I remember the most. Citadel has a rich history that goes back thousands of years, however, the best studied areas related to the Roman and later periods. Being a museum quite small, but it can be seen a few interesting exhibits, including the Qumran scrolls (title handwritten Greek translations of biblical texts found in caves on the Dead Sea, ca. Perevi.). Soon the museum plans to move into a new building, where ancient artifacts are exhibited in more suitable for them. Theatre in Jerash we went to the city of Madaba, which is known as the city of mosaics, because there are so many Byzantine works in this genre. The most remarkable of them is in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George and is a huge map of the world. It shows in detail, Jordan and Palestine in the north and Egypt in the south. Beautiful, but ... in the church was full of Russian tourists, and we had for dinner to get to the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea can not just go down to the Dead Sea and dive into it. Even with our excursion. First, it was necessary to arrive at the hotel "Movenpick, which manages the Swiss, lunch, change into a specially designated place, then go to the beach hotel where attentive staff will help you get off the water. In fact, even a good thing that helps get into the water, because the feeling at this very strange, and you can easily lose your balance because of the extraordinary buoyancy. And, you can easily cut his leg on the rocky bottom on which is not easy to move around. But you can lie down on the water and stay on the surface. Frankly, nothing more and can not do. Really just can not swim. The truth is not particularly relax in the water can be no more than 15 minutes (apparently, very salty water dehydrates the body). Besides, pretty soon, "diving" bored and drift is simply boring. Nevertheless, it's worth a try. To make it even more interesting, you can rub the body with mud from the Dead Sea. From personal experience I can say that the mud is very much burns if hit on the lips. After you wash away the dirt, in theory you should feel younger. Yes, of course! View from the citadel at Amman in Jordan, there are several "national" dishes. One of them - a dessert, which I think is served upside down, and mansaf - lamb with rice and yogurt sauce. This dish is easy to cook, and we went to a restaurant that is famous for its mansafom. For a start we were served delicious appetizers: three kinds of hummus, almost identical in taste, wheat bread similar to Indian Naan bread, and thin bread similar to pita chapatis. Then came the broad beans with something incomprehensible, sausage, pickles, vegetable salad, citrus salad, something very spicy, similar to Harissa sauce, potato salad and even some dishes that I do not remember. After all this mansaf, frankly, did not leave much impression. It was delicious, but still it's just lamb with rice. 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