TKH
In Part 1 I had shown the ancient map of the holy land in the form of a mosaic on the floor of a Greek-Orthodox church. On panel showed Kyriopolis, Al Karak in modern times. After crossing the three wadis I reached Al Karaok and stayed in the old town near the castle.
This castle was constructed beginning in the 1100 years, but the town had been settled more than a thousand years before that, in fact all the way back to the Iron Age. The crusaders built the castle on a rocky plateau protected on three sides by valleys. They called it Petra Deserti (Stone of the Desert). Alas, you can have physical protection by natural features, but if the enemy besieges your castle and you can’t resupply, you will fail. That’s what happened some 50 years after the build was complete. The castle was afterwards used by Muslim rulers into Ottoman times.
From Al Karak I briefly returned to Amman, bought some supplies and pre-deployed them in the South of the country where population density and hence store density was expected to be lower. I am glad I did! I don’t know whether I would have made it otherwise.
From Al Karak I hiked on to the Dana Eco Reserve and from there to the World Heritage site at Petra.

The stable for the horses of the crusaders. Supposedly a couple of hundred lived there at the peak of their rule.