{"id":3187,"date":"2024-03-15T03:19:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2024-03-15T03:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:19:24","slug":"shobak-castle-wadi-musa-petra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/15\/shobak-castle-wadi-musa-petra\/","title":{"rendered":"Shobak Castle – Wadi Musa, Petra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shobak Castle also known as Montreal was built by the Crusaders and expanded by the Mamluks during the 12 Century.<\/p>\n

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The castle dominated the main passage from Egypt to Syria.<\/p>\n

I went to the castle twice, the first time it was so windy that they had to close it.<\/p>\n

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To get to the castle you have to park near the bottom of the hill and then\u00a0 walk up.<\/p>\n

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During the crusades the castle used to have 3 protective walls. Currently there is only one.<\/p>\n

There hasn’t been a lot of restoration done to it. They have not fully excavated the ruins either, so it feels very authentic.<\/p>\n

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When you walk around the you notice that there are some holes in the floor covered by planks of wood. Some interior wall are held together by scaffolding . This is not a bad thing, it feels less like Disneyland.<\/p>\n

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The people that work here try to keep it in good conditions. Its clean and you see the efforts to make it safe.<\/p>\n

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I do not know if I was lucky, or people don’t really visit.<\/p>\n

I was pretty much alone the whole time.<\/p>\n

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I was able to walk around, climb structures, really enjoy my time there.<\/p>\n

In some areas of the castle you needed to be more careful …… you could fall and die.<\/p>\n

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Something fun to do while walking around, is finding all the different types of arches – three pointed, flat, horseshoe, etc.<\/p>\n

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The rooms left in the castle have small protective windows, very appropriate for a crusade fort.<\/p>\n

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During the 14th century, there was a renovation. The towers and walls were decorated with carved inscriptions.<\/p>\n

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Around the castle there are hills with very interesting diagonal patterns. People built houses in them, sometimes is hard to finding because they blend so well.<\/p>\n

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On my way back to the car I decided to take a little detour while walking, because I found a baby goat.<\/p>\n

The Baby goat then led me to his\/her mother.<\/p>\n

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I kept following them until a man appeared and started yelling at me. There was a bit of a language barrier so I left pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

The goats finally found their family.<\/p>\n

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and they let me to this place, a small rural cemetery.<\/p>\n

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Overall a very successful trip.<\/p>\n

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