Hugo R.
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The Madaba archeological park is split into 2 sites, both very close to eachother, but requiring local knowledge to find. Thus, it may be worth asking at the visitor centre or finding a driver with local knowledge (ours was a Madaba resident). The mosaics are the main attraction at the park, with beautiful patterns, scenes of animals and mythological figures. As usual we and a nearby party fell victim to the 'guides'. They follow you around regurgitating information readily available on the signs, distracting you from reading, and leading you around at such pace that you are prevented from taking in the beautiful art - presumably in a hurry to get their 'tip'. In fact, at park 1, one of these 'guides' kept spraying water on the mosaics in some pointless attempt to make them more visible. Surely, that can't be good for their preservation. It is annoying. Despite this, the archeological park offers ruins and, most impressively, early Byzantine mosaics that are incredibly well-preserved (except for one that fell victim to the madness of the iconoclasm). A must-see.