Country Info
- Amman
- Capital
- Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
- Currency
- 5,153,378
- Population
- JO
- Country Code
Wadi Musa Slideshow
Wadi Musa
Travel Blogs from Wadi Musa, Jordan
Tunnels
... here. The last two days, we spent in Petra and Baida, rushing through the usual tourist program. Yesterday we went to camp in Wadi Araba desert, also a must while here. Especially nice now since the moon is almost full - you can see at night almost as ...
Petra
Acordamos cedo e fomos para Petra (uma das 7 maravilhas do mundo moderno). Na entrada encontramos o outro casal chileno que conhecemos no ferry. Eles ofereceram para ir com eles com o guia deles que falava portugues. O guia era jordaniao e sua mae era ...
Shobak
De camino a Madaba, visitamos los castillos del desierto de Jordania. Estos castillos datan de la epoca de los cruzados. En la parada que realizamos para sacar fotos, juntamos flores y hierbas de la zona. ...
Indie meets Rammie
... first five apostles met and where the prophet Elijah ascended to heaven in a chariot. We stood at the banks of the Jordan River – a lime green colour and shrinking in size. Tim suggested bottle brook in Little Eaton (the village in Derbyshire where ...
Amazing Petra!
The bus to Petra took 2 hours and had great cliff side views over Jordan. We got into Wadi Musa village and found a good cheap place to stay - Valentines. We just chilled for our 1st day here. Jordan is very expensive! The Dinar is almost the equivelent ...
A ROSE CITY, HALF AS OLD AS TIME.
... . As Sig , as it is known locally, is a crack in the earth. It was here that the Nabataeans built a dam across the Wadi Musa (River Moses). They directed the water to flow into the canyon created by the crack and by carving long channels in the sides of ...
Counting Columns, Climbing Sand
... , Uganda was the Virungas, Egypt the pyramids of Giza and Jordan it was always going to be about Petra. I am not disappointed. Arriving in Wadi Musa from Aqaba was very easy, a bus connects the two for just 5JD and perhaps three hours of your time, the ...
Monday in Al-Rajef
... could be improved. MaryAnn guided the discussion as we then planned the classes for the next day. We decided to have everyone go into Wadi Musa (at the mouth of the Siq leading to Petra, only 20 minutes away, for dinner. MaryAnn wanted to catch a bus ...
Into Jordan
... all climbed up for photographs. After about 2 hours in the desert we reluctantly left and made the way to our hotel in Wadi Musa Our rooms were spacious and looked fairly palatial compared with the other places we had staid. We had dinner and those of ...
A Day at the Dead Sea
... shot in the chest and shoulder, and was lucky to survive. She is the first of the group who survived to return to Jordan, just seven months after the attack, which I think is incredibly gutsy of her. Suddenly, it made sense why she hadn't ...
We is in the Middle East Baby........
... ....not much to say.... the crew picked us up and took us to the airport.....and off we went.....our driver is taking us to Wadi Musa (Petra), its about a 2.5 hour drive south of Amman. Cool part is I am writing this as we drive thru the desert to Petra. ...
Jordanie, suite et fin
... , seuls dans un canyon, sous un soleil de plomb. Hammed nous attendais ā la sortie du canyon. Puis sommes revenus au village de Wadi Rum oų nous avons pu faire une petite promenade en chameau, juste pour voir l’effet. J’avoue que je ...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
... is a steep uphill climb, but I figure I can manage it and I did with not too much of a problem. Except the town I reach is not Wadi Musa where I am staying and I must walk along another road to reach my town. As I am walking a couple of guys my age ask if ...
Sandstone City in many hues
We did the same early morning routine the second day. This time we mercifully chose an easier route. After passing through the Sig, the canyon, past the Treasury, and the Wall of Facades, we turned right just after the Roman Theater and climbed up into ...
Petra's High Place of Sacrifice
... to the left, back toward the Roman Theater. We had a nice view from a low ridge overlooking the Royal Tombs across the Wadi Musa riverbed. As I said earlier this river was named after Moses. Legend has it that this may indeed be the place where Moses ...
Hitch hiking the Kings Highway
... to talk me out of it said, I'm sure it'll be a piece of piss. Dana was easy: A Mini Bus got me to Ma'an from Wadi Musa then wait for the bus bound for Tafila to full and jump out near Qadsiyya and hitch or hike the last little bit to Dana (got a lift ...
Petra - good/Cleopetra - bad
... we could spend the evening in a nice ambience and just go back to sleep and leave in the morning. If there are nice restaurants in Wadi Musa, we didn't find them. Actually, there was one in the Movenpick but that would have cost us an arm and a leg so we ...
De Guatemala a Guatepeor..Israel to Jordan...PETRA
Oh my God, was I scared for my life!!!! Crossing the border from Israel to Jordan wasn't too bad. Getting from the border to Petra was the scariest thing in my life. Sorry to be such a pesimist, but I honestly did not know what the hell was happening when ...
Petra: spektakulär
Petra ist echt toll. Sogar der Indy war schon da: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yEzoBGYLXs Ich werd bald mehr schreiben. ...
Day 17 Amman to Petra
... never used the word 'Israel', He calls it Palestine or 'over there' 'over the boarder'. We think he is Iraqi escaped to Jordan like thousands others. He mentioned 'this is the money I remember using when I went to school' when the vendor sold us the Iraq ...
Behold we's in Petra.................
... matter we got a nice suite and we got a good night sleep for an 8:00 am start. Our guide Ali....is a short lil Jordanian from Wadi Musa, he has been a guide for 16 years or so. Knows his stuff. So we start the tour with a horseback ride to the entrance ...
Day 18 Petra
The long awaited for visit to Petra is finally here. Seeing Petra at night was amazing but I can't wait to see it during the day. We had breakfast at the hotel. A buffet with all the usual fair exception for one thing... Peanut Butter. I found a jar of ...
Karak is a bit cold.....
So from Wadi rum we jumped in the car to head to Al Karak.....it's a Crusader Fortress. A couple of hours drive north towards Amman. So off we went. More desert....camels and zipped in and out of towns and villages. Neat to see the real villages....very ...
Amazing Petra
4 OCTOBER 2010 - Petra, Jordan. On minibus to Petra at 6am and arrive at 6.15am. We spent 11 hours here exploring this amazing place. The amazing sights of the Treasury, the monastry, the tombs, the old city, the amplitheatre and more were ...
Petra
... de castells templaris, amb les que visitare a Siria i a Israel ja n'hi haura mes que suficient. En el microbus que ens duu a Wadi Musa la majoria de la gent son turistes, i les seves motxilles ocupen gran part dels espais lliures. Malgrat tot, el viatge ...
Wadi Musa, Little Petra and Li Vaux Moise
DAY 5 This was going to be our last day. We had a delicious breakfast at the hotel, then headed into Wadi Musa. We popped into the Movenpick hotel to look at their bazaar, then wandered to the corner. I had already booked a trip with ...
