The trip south from
Amman along the 5,000-year-old King's Highway is
one of the most memorable journeys in the Holy
Land, passing through a string of ancient sites.
The first city you come upon is Madaba, "the City
of Mosaics". Madaba's chief attraction -in the
contemporary Greek Orthodox church of St. George-
is a wonderfully vivid, sixth-century Byzantine
mosaic map showing Jerusalem and other holy
sites.
Ten minutes
to the west is the most revered site in Jordan:
Mount Nebo, the memorial of Moses, the presumed
site of the prophet's death and burial place. A
small, square church was built on the spot by
early Byzantine Christians-and later expanded
into a vast complex.
The trip south from
Amman along the 5,000-year-old King's Highway is
one of the most memorable journeys in the Holy
Land, passing through a string of ancient sites.
The first city you come upon is Madaba, "the City
of Mosaics". Madaba's chief attraction -in the
contemporary Greek Orthodox church of St. George-
is a wonderfully vivid, sixth-century Byzantine
mosaic map showing Jerusalem and other holy
sites. 
