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Aqaba Slideshow
Aqaba
Travel Blogs from Aqaba, Jordan
Aqaba and Goodbye Jordan!
... ;s favourite, and a selection of breads and pastries. Again, the only item lacking was real coffee. Our experience in Jordan has been quite positive and in fact exceeded our expectations. There was a lot to see and do here, prices were ...
Stars, clouds and rain in the desert
... we hit the sack pretty early and lay around watching stars and talking. We got a few spots of rain which spooked a couple inside but the rest of us stayed out all night. Up the next morning with the sun and a 8am departure to Aqaba for our ferry to ...
"I saw you stabbing that eel"
"I saw you stabbing that eel" Wake up with a headache and go with English dive master Roger down to the beach for two morning dives. We start off at New Canyon, which is a deep dive (down to 30m), but because you can see the bottom for miles in ...
The Road to Jordan....
... small mini-bus with all our luggage for the hour and a half transfer to Taba, where we have to get a ferry across to Aqaba in Jordan. The bus was very quiet and we think nearly everyone slept on the way there. Arriving at Taba we checked in for the ...
Chilling out
... Chinese massage at the Aquamarina hotel. I spoke to the Chinese lady working there and found out that when she came to Jordan, she didn't know a thing about massage and from her techniques, I could tell that she still doesn't really know much. However, ...
1 kilometer, 2 kilometer, 3 kilometer, RED!
... long hair because "men only like long hair" and I don't want 10 layers of make up on my face ever. Riding through the Jordan Valley was a completely different side of Jordan that I hadn't seen yet and it was what I came for. There were barefoot children ...
Back in Aqaba, Jordan
The fast ferry between Nuweiba, Egypt and Aqaba, Jordan...ha, harumph, and other sounds of disapproval. Fast when it's underway, sure. But getting the darned thing to shove off is the problem. An international gaggle of backpackers banded informally ...
A very popular beachtown.
Aqaba is on the coast and while there we snorkelled and enjoyed the beautiful coral, a sunken ship AND a sunken Russian tank. We also made a trip to the Dead Sea. It is an amazing feeling....floating without any effort.(35% saliency). Alan did the "mud" ...
The weekend I was 5KM from Saudi Arabia
... bottles of water. The weekends here are Friday and Saturday. This past weekend, my first weekend in Jordan, I traveled with some friends to Petra and on to Aqaba. It was an awesome trip. We woke up at 6am Friday morning and hopped on a ...
Freezing!
I suppose it had to happen. An overcast day with a fair wind which really made it feel cool in comparison to the last few days. No sunbathing today. I was footering about most of the morning, watched the end of Donnie Darko (which I'd fallen asleep ...
Even more lazing about
Differentiated from days 2 and 4 only by being woken up by workmen at 730. Although most of the structure of the hotel is complete, one wing of rooms have to be finished off - although from a cursory glance it appears complete as the outside has been ...
Aqaba
... vs Scotland. What a waste of time that was - crap game ruined by a rubbish ref. Quite surreal tho watching the All Blacks in Jordan. Nov 9th Today was another chance for R & R. After a bit of a sleep-in we packed the bags and headed and headed ...
Wadi Rum camp
... Highway, much quicker than the Kings Highway.. until we got into Amman. May as well get properly lost for our last time in Jordan, we probably should never have tried to drive into Amman, crazy place on the roads. Didn't help that I had circled King ...
From Petra to Aqaba
... leaving for Amman today as Natasha will be flying back to Athens tomorrow morning and I had to catch the only bus that leaves for Aqaba at 3.30pm. We panted and gasped all the way back. At one point, I almost gave up walking altogether because of the ...
A relaxing day (or half a day) by the Red Sea !!
... , but it was really expensive and we wouldn't have had enough time to justify the money spent, so we decided to go across to Jordan earlier. We stopped at the Eilat markets to spend some of the shekels we still had left over. Abi bought a few ...
Aqaba
... I was with a man or maybe because they all called me Fatima and wanted to speak Arabic with me or maybe because Jordan is a bit more civilized. All people were very friendly... Complete strangers were saying "Welcome, welcome, welcome!" to us and ...
Kaalgat in die woestyn
... the sea so we cooled off in the pool and then chilled in the shade until about 5pm when it was time for snorkelling. Here in Aqaba you can snorkel straight of the beach. Gary and I went out together and explored, it was nice but most of the coral is ...
Random observations and thoughts
... world - we have not seen a single Starbucks since we left London. But, we did just come across a Gloria Jean's coffee in Jordan. 5) Hotel door locks - one of our biggest frustrations has been the locks on all of our hotel rooms. They ...
More lazing about
See entry for day 2 - but this time I had some Movenpick icecream for the first time. It was lovely. I also bought postcards from the gift shop on site. The man behind the counter looks like Ming the Merciless. ...