Before breakfast on his last day in Amman, Phespirit left his hotel for a short walk up to Jabal al-Qal'a: the citadel hill and Umayyad palace ruins in the Downtown district.
This is the view northwards from across the road that runs alongside the citadel walls.
As seen from a vantage point high upon the South Theatre of Rome-built Jerash:
Alas, most of the old is lost under the new.
Extensive archaeological excavations show Wadi Kharrar to be the holy site from which Elijah climbed to heaven in a chariot, where John the Baptist lived in the wilderness and where Jesus Christ was baptised.
Israelis disagree. They think it all happened on their side of the River Jordan.
