Picture of Kerak Castle: part of the castle near the North Front (Kerak, Jordan)

Part of Kerak Castle near the North Front

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One more crusader castle in a long line of fortresses built on the long mountain range in the Middle East, Kerak Castle still stands proudly on a hilltop, with the crusader town hidden just behind its defensive walls.
After walking around in the charming and bustling town, I walked around the town and approached the castle from below, climbing up the hill through a garbage field. Once inside, I visited the museum and mostly enjoyed walking around the vaulted passageways, climbing the defensive walls for the great views, discovering dark tunnels and stairs leading up or down, looking out for openings in the floor, which were light holes for the floor below, trying to imagine how the various parts must have looked like when Kerak was a stronghold in the Middle Ages. In my search for a good viewpoint over the castle, I was then invited inside a home of one of the villagers, and a very hospitable family it was, indeed. As I walked down the street, the castle was glowing in the late afternoon sun as it must have been for centuries.
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