Here is Madaba - or a little, and very historical bit of it. If you like mosaics, then this is the place for you. On the floor of St Georges Church is an amazing mosaic map of the region, as it was known then. Madaba, it appears, was the centre of mosaic making in the early Christian days. The detail of the map is wonderful - all the little houses, especially, and the boat and the animals. What I should really include, though, is a picture of the Holy City Sweet Shop which appeared as a mirage offering a restorative icecream after having lost myself for several hours of gruelling, sun-stroke inducing, dusty, but nevertheless varied and infinitely interesting, walking. The trouble was that I was so exhausted when I came upon the Holy City that I forget to take a picture. Madaba is a large city!
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