Al Zaitouna Aqaba

Hahmammat Street Aqaba, Jordan

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Wadi Rum, Lawrence of Arabia's hangout

A travel blog entry by radsolv

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Petra would have been worth visiting for another day and I had already bought a two day ticket for $14 but was anxious to get on to Palestine which was the real purpose of the entire journey. So early the next morning boarded a bus for a journey South a few hours to Wadi Rum. "Wadi Rum has some of the most spectacular desert scenery anywhere in the …

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Nothings too far from Aqaba! (Lol!)

A travel blog entry by chris-roisin

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Today we arrived in Aqaba. Aqaba is Jordan's only port and is at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba. If you picture the red sea with 2 prongs at the top, we have just come through the Suez Canal in to the left prong (the Gulf of Suez) then made a sharp right turn into the right prong!! Aqaba lies at the very end of this prong. 4 countries converge on Aquaba. Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In fact the ship passed the popular Egyptian resort of Sharm El Shiekh. The daily programme ...

We're in Jordan

A travel blog entry by leone_and_mike

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... men who were being bussed to the ferry, but were told to sit separately. About 5 busloads left before they told us to get on the bus. And what a bus! The steps at the back were terrible, the bottom ones pretty much broken. Try climbing that with a huge backpack and a daypack as well. Arrived at the ferry and had to leave out bags on the bottom level where the cars and trucks go. Wasn’t sure that was a good idea but I don’t think we ...

Bedouins and the desert: Wadi Rum

A travel blog entry by hilary_todd

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... to in broken English. We learnt that the man had to flee Syria for fear of being killed and could not return which was very sad. They gave us some of their bread and Egyptian cheese and we gave them some hideous processed cheese (it was all we had) in return. We watched the boarding procedure for the slow boat that was leaving before our boat – it went on for over an hour and involved lots of fighting. There seemed to be distinct classes that were boarded ...

Wadi Rum

A travel blog entry by danielaundfrank

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... Schaf- und Ziegenherden. So kamen wir auch zu einer riesigen Sanddüne, wo wir Gelegenheit hatten, hinauf zu gehen. Auch wenn der Aufstieg etwas anstrengend war, wurden wir von einem herrlichen Blick über die Wüstenlandschaft entschädigt.

Zum Schluss genossen wir auf einem der Felsen den Sonnenuntergang, der hier in der Wüste etwas ganz Besonderes war.

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