The views from Wild Jordan are expansive, and offer vistas of the ancient Citadel overlooking the city (photo 1). You can also see the humongous Jordanian flag flying over the capital (photo 2).
After lunch, we headed to ACOR, the American Center for Oriental Research (yeah, the name is outdated but the facility is not). Founded in 1968, ACOR has been a home to visiting scholars and other interested people, particularly archaeologists; I stayed there with the infamous Gary Scudder and Rob Williams last year, and it was amazing. Barbara Potter and Chris Tuttle, the Americans who run the place, are fantastic, and Barbara gave us a great tour of the library and the archaeological work rooms they have there. A fine Nabatean bowl (photo 3) and a Byzantine oil lamp (photo 4) are examples of the sort of restoration work they do there, though their papyri from Petra are their crown jewels.
The day moved on to a great lecture by Dr. Yusuf Mansur, a Jordanian business and economics expert, political commentator, and columnist. In the evening, we had an amazing meal at a downtown Lebanese restaurant, outside, where we were stuffed to within inches of our lives.....
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