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Jordan This picture shows Qasr al-Amra: cupola with frescoes. It was taken on a travel to Jordan, Jordan, Asia. It is one of the 6707 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Jordan. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world! Show on map Locate Desert Castle Loop on map Other languages: \| \| \| \| Categories Architecture Art Bridges City & Cityscape Coastline Culture & Religion Doors & Windows Events History Landscape Nature People Transportation Various	Picture of Qasr al-Amra: cupola with frescoes (Jordan) Detail of frescoes at Qasr al-Amra Send image of Qasr al-Amra: cupola with frescoes as a free postcard Download picture of Qasr al-Amra: cupola with frescoes Purchase Qasr al-Amra: cupola with frescoes (Jordan) From Amman, you can plunge into the desert and explore some of the so-called desert castles. Soon after leaving Amman, the road takes you to the desert, a stony, flat, greyish desert stretching out to the horizon on all sides. It is in this desert that in the 7th and 8th century BCE the Umayyad rulers in Damascus built desert castles, the function of some of which is still not completely clear. The first such castle was Kharaneh, a rectangular yellowish building rising out of the desert. Currently, it is thought to have served as a caravanserai, a kind of inn used by Umayyads on their way to the holy land. While the heat outside burns and makes you feel like being in an oven, stepping inside brings an instant relief. Read more about: Desert Castle Loop Tags for this picture: \| \| \| \| Asia Central&South America castle skyscraper Desert Castle Loop Tombs of Palmyra detail institution Jordan Denmark orange red painting statue yellow pink
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