Al Zatari Aqaba

King Talal Street Aqaba, Jordan

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Wadi Rum camp

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

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... the site or Bedouin traditions and life. We managed to eavesdrop on another tour guide once, clearly our guy was just a driver & not a guide as promised with the 'tour'. What we didn't get in guide we got in entertainment though.

And ... we did get Bedouin drum music played on a tape ( bet no other tours got that ) - over and over again, there was only one track made up of one set of beats of about 15 seconds that repeated for the whole track. ...

More Flashbacks from the 90's

A travel blog entry by karl.and.kat

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... s amazing.

[Kat: Local food, again, is very, very cheap – even in fancy restaurants, if you stuck with falafel, hummus, bread and veggies (for two people) it would cost around $5 Canadian.]

Kat and I had to get a ferry ticket to cross the Gulf of Aqaba to get to Nuwebia, Egypt. The one company that runs ferries is called AB Maritime- a joint venture between the governments of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq(?). There is a large slow ferry that the locals use and ...

Nothings too far from Aqaba! (Lol!)

A travel blog entry by chris-roisin

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... pulled up along side, jumped out of his jeep and was immediately on his mobile phone. Firstly, how the hell could he get a signal in the middle of the desert? Secondly, I’m betting the Jordanian equivalent of the AA or Green Flag breakdown service don’t have a policy to be with you within the hour.

‘Where are you sir??’
‘I’m in the desert!’
‘Yes which desert sir. Jordan is full of them!!’
‘I’m ...

How many camels to make you happy?

A travel blog entry by jb.

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... into their history & learnt about their culture.

Whilst in Wadi Musa (the town just outside of Petra that one stays at), we were picked up walking to Petra by a local we'd met on the bus. We made our way to Petra with Jenstar straddling a speaker, said speaker blaring Celine Dion, & a stack of pita next to her. It wasn't just the CD blaring but the guys in the car too who knew every word of the song yet barely any English. (Are you ...

Wadi Rum Camel Ride and On to Aqaba!

A travel blog entry by dmarek

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... some tea. Pam and I took photos of a bird sitting on one of the camel's heads. At the very end we went through a rougher patch of downhill and then went over the railroad tracks to get to the road where our bus picked us up. Betty and Catherine didn't go on the ride and stayed with the bus.

After another hour or so, we arrived in Aqaba, settled into our hotel rooms. There is a swimming pool on the roof and a nice view of the Red ...

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