jordan-vale

Updated: May 24, 2025

For about an hour and a half we rode through an enormous waste covered with trailing weeds, towards the verdant banks of the Jordan, which are known from a distance by the beautiful blooming green of the meadows that surround it. We halted in the so-called "Jordan-vale," where our Saviour was baptised by St. John. The water of the Jordan is of a dingy clay-colour; its course is very rapid.

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