about the desert castles
In the desert that lies east of Amman, you can find several abandoned castles and palaces that are usually knowns as "desert castles". I managed to visit three: Qusayr ‘Amra, which used to be a caliph's bath-house: Qasr al-Harraneh, an imposing fortress with a well-preserved Caravanserrail; and Qasr al-Azraq, which for a season had been the headquarters of Lawrence od Arabia Not the buildings themselves, actually - but the group of school children I met everywhere: friendly and curious they asked all the few questions they knew in English and insisted in touching my hair to see if the blond was real (nope) or would come off (nope again)
