Where Am I? Game

We're relaunching the photo game with some clearer rules.

Post some pics of a place you've been, and we'll take guesses at the location.

Rules
1. It's just for fun. Keep it friendly please.
2. If no-one's made a guess within 24 hours you should post more pics and/or give a text clue.
If your first pics are deliberately hard, make sure your next set (or text clues) give people a chance.
3. Don't use reverse image searches like Google Lens. That's cheating. First try to guess using your own travel or general knowledge. It's ok to ask the poster questions such as 'Is this place in Europe?'.
If no guesses have been made within 24 hours or so it's ok to start researching on external websites but not reverse-image searches. Explaining how you researched is interesting and useful for others.
4. Prizes. The prize for correctly stating the location is... it's your turn! You now need to find some pics for the next round.

Would the next person to win please post their poser here?

OK,
It's Leics turn!

Righty-ho.

I haven't got too many photos of this place but I hope it'll be fairly straightforward. Where did I see this interesting bit of stone:

and these views?

(Sorry, had to edit because I hadn't checked the photos for reverse-image results...and I've previously been caught out by that. )

[ Edit: Edited on 6 Jul 2023, 18:58 GMT by leics2 ]

Well, wherever it is, it's very dry and desert-like which makes me think maybe the Middle East. I wonder if that is Arabic writing on the first stone. So, although I have never been there, I'm going to guess somewhere in Lebanon, perhaps.

It is the Middle East, though not in Lebanon. I'm not sure about the writing on the stone, sorry. This place has had several 'owners'.

[ Edit: Edited on 7 Jul 2023, 07:43 GMT by leics2 ]

Ok, so it's somewhere in the Middle East. I'm thinking that Syria and Iraq are probably still rather dangerous to go to, unless you went several years ago, so I'll guess Jordan.

I had plans to visit Syria just before the awful events began (my Arabic-speaking son had spent 3 months there and was to be my guide). The UK advises against all travel to the country (thus no insurance available) so I doubt I'll ever see it. The same applies to Iraq.

This place is indeed in the lovely country of Jordan.

[ Edit: Edited on 7 Jul 2023, 09:05 GMT by leics2 ]

I'm out this evening so apologies in advance for any lack of response.

First, I will try an answer without doing any research. I've never been to Jordan, though it's on my very long 'want to visit' list. I only know that the capital is Amman. I would imagine the place you have put up is smaller.

The only other place I know is Petra, famous for its buildings cut into the rock. Since this is a famous archaeological site. I'll try there first. Is it Petra?

Irene, you're so near I think a quick google will give you the answer.

This place isn't in Petra or Amman: it's between the two and a well-known site included in most standard tours of Jordan. Tours tend to visit the site when travelling between the two places. They don't usually visit the surrounding settlement, which is mostly post-1960s and shares its name.

It's a large, impressive and important site...too big to photograph as a whole other than from above....though it's not on the UNESCO World Heritage list (same with Jerash, the huge Roman city in Jordan). The site/local area has been inhabited for many thousands of years but this defensive structure was first buit in the mid-1100s. As often happened, it was enlarged and improved as its 'ownership' changed over the centuries.