An Old Castle and Some Caves

A few of us went on a little field trip to Wadi Al-Seer and Iraq Al-Ameen last week. There are some ruins of a castle from about 200 BC there that a group of French archaeologists partially restored. Of course I was super thrilled to be around ruins again, but I only got a few pictures because the batteries died in my camera.

We also went to some caves that have been used for a very long time for very different reasons. There is evidence of housing, burials, church and meeting functions and the Ottomans even used them as stables for their horses. There was also a lot of bats that I wish I could have gotten a good picture of. 

At the end of our trip we went to visit a local workshop run by women to raise money and create work for women in need. The place was really interesting with some very cool handmade crafts like paper, soap, pottery and they even offer to do dinners for those interested, which includes music and traditional dancing. I hope we can come back here some evening and do that. 

My favorite part though was a group of kids playing football in the streets who let us join them.