In the Holy Land

| View Show | Create Your OwnBefore celebrating my church wedding in Northern Lebanon on July 8th 2006, my parents and I decided to take a brief holiday in Jordan. It has been a dream of theirs to travel to Jordan and visit the lost city of Petra, featured so prominently in one of the many Indiana Jones’ films. A week before the wedding date, my parents, along with their Cuban friend, and I traveled to Amman, Jordan where we began our journey in the historical bible belt of the world. The journey took us to the great Roman and later Greek city-state of Jerash in Northern Jordan. We traveled across to the holy land, to the River Jordan where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Our trip included a stop in the sacred Mount Nebo where God spoke to Moses and showed him the Promised Land, and later where Moses died. The highlight of our journey was the lost city of Petra, where we spent one entire day walking through its amazing rust red canyons, visiting its carved out temples, and finally taking a donkey ride up the 900 or so odd shaped stone steps that lead to the revered Monastery. After visiting Petra, we made our way to the south of Jordan, to the a valley called Wadi Rum – many would recognize Wadi Rum as the backdrop of the film “Lawrence of Arabia.” The sand dunes were endless, and the rock formations even more magnificent, as we rode in the back of a bumpy 4×4 vehicle in awe. Before heading to central Jordan and spending two days relaxing in a Dead Sea resort, we stopped in the resort town of Aqaba, where Jordan meets Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Finally, on our return to Lebanon, my husband and his family spent the last few days before our wedding taking us on various journeys through Northern Lebanon, from the magical caverns in Jeita to the most well-preserved ruins I have ever seen in Baal-Beck.