Alia Amman
Queen Alia International Airport Amman, 39158, Jordan
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So Far So Great
When last we spoke, I was in Seattle so here continues my journey.
My flight from SeaTac to O'Hare was pleasant enough. I sat next to a nice man who is originally from China but lives in Chicago with his wife, his six year old, and his three year old. And I sat next to a girl with a mild buzz but she was inebriated by the time she exited …
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Roman Ruins, Dead Sea View and Landmines
... dead sea and the canyon. So straight down the side, following no marked path, we went to see some awesome views. It was a hard stomp down as was fairly steep and mostly gravel like stone but we got down to the dried up river bed but not all the way as it stopped at a definitely sheer drop that we was not going to climb down!
Looking back up at the mountain we realised it was going to be hard ...
Floating in the Dead Sea
... Luke and İ bought an arabic newspaper and took wicked pictures floating in the water 'reading' it. Unless youve been to the Dead Sea, its hard to describe how cool the feeling was of just floating there weightlessly. All you had to do was basically sit in the water, and your feet naturally floated up to the top and you just hung out there. Unbelievable. But i quickly realized it was a BAD ...
Mud and salt...lots of salt!
Yesterday afternoon I went to the Dead Sea. The shore is lined with rocks covered in crystallized salt. It was the most bizarre feeling to be floating while standing up. It was also quite frustrating to be laying on my stomach and physically unable to pull my legs under myself to a standing position.
After our swim ...
Nabatean's Smile
... a car in Amman. They can be very tricky, I did experience a very unpleasant things.
I'm suggesting to take Desert Highway instead of King's Highway. Why? Because Desert Highway is safer than King's Highway. I took Desert Highway and arrived safely in Petra, however the next day I tried to take King's Highway on my way to Dead Sea, and voila! I got car accident. Anyway we will get to that story later.
So it took 3 hours driving from Amman to ...



