Friday, May 22, 2009

Castle Ajloun

This is quite a bit of backtracking - by more than two weeks, as a matter of fact - but I can't possibly leave out the castle Ajloun, because in addition to being built in the city where the prophet Elijah was born (fun fact!), it's just a completely awesome castle.


Professor Maisel originally told us that it was a crusader castle, but we were set straight pretty quickly by one of the tour guides inside; Ajloun was actually built by Muslims to keep the crusaders out.

Oops.

In any case, it proved to be the best castle for climbing on, and we gave Maisel quite a scare. Max, Matt, Arie and I were unstoppable. :D





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