Our first site to explore was an old Roman city in Jarash. It took less than 1 hour to get there and it was easy to find. The site was quite big to explore. The city was build by Romans in the second century BC. It has 2 nice theaters, colonnade and several churches. We stayed there until the sunset and went to see the city. We parked in the city center next to the police station. Police man and people were very friendly and the all welcomed us to Jordan. We needed to get some food and our first stop was at he bakery.We took few brads and pastries and when we wanted to pay the bakery men told us that we can take it for free. We were a bit surprised. The next we stopped for some milk and yogurt. Since the men could not speak much English he gave us a bits to taste. We took some good cheese and yogurt drink called airan. When we wanted to pay a young guy who was helping us to translate bought all food for us. We started to feel that Jordanians are even nicer than the very friendly Turks and Syrians. The next we stopped for some vegetables stop vegetables. After the nice welcome and the usual question " where from" we were offered a tea and off course he gave us all vegetables for free. We made few pictures and went back to our car. The police men came and asked where we want to go and told us that we should stay there over night. One police man spoke good English and brought us some sweet pastry. Our toilet was almost full so we visited the toilet in the sweet shop across the street. We tasted few sweets and try to buy some but of course it was all for free. I went to visit the police station. It was a small room with window in the middle of the town. I was asked how old Im and if Im married. They were again very surprised how old Im. The one police men who spoke good English explain why the Jordanians like to have so many kids. The main reason he told me is that they do not want to be alone when they are old. He was 26 and had 2 kids. He was a teacher but he went to police. We seen more police in Jordan than in Syria.There is a special tourist police in all touristic places. The police are very nice and friendly and most of them speak English. I was told that they will take us to some better place to stay over night. Shortly a mercedes came with two tourist police man. They told us that it will be better if we stay at parking lot at the tourist center. We were looked there and very well protected. It was a bit strange but my feeling was that after the bombings in Amman ion 2005 they want to make 100% sure that the tourist are safe and it also probably helps to keep the order.
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