Days Inn Amman

... eat Japanese food which is sort of difficult to acquire here and too expensive to buy at a restaurant. Off we went to Cosmo for fish and rice and Japanese vinegar and cabbage and oyster sauce and tofu and so on and so on. 50 sheets of seaweed cost 14JD, ridiculous yes, but cheaper than the brand that was priced at 20JD. Good lordy. And Wasabi...only could be found in expensive powder form so we carried on without it. We ended up getting all the necessary items for ...

... and Romans. <br> <br>Right across the street from the Citadel is the Roman Theatre, an incredibly large and well preserved amphitheatre built in the 2nd Century AD and capable of seating 6,000 spectators.<br><br>Tonight all groups go out together for a last supper at an interesting local restaurant called Tawaheen Al-Hawa. The tables are set up under a traditional Bedouin tent. The meal consists of salad, traditional Arabic mezzas, and barbeque ...

... the Golan Heights. Apparently there is only one, rather basic, hotel there so I asked Muitham what the hotel is like. He says "No, no, you don't stay in hotel. I am from Umm Qais and I live there with my mother. You will stay at my house."<br><br>Hmmm, I've never been offered a room in a stranger's house before, in all my travels.<br>Should I, or shouldn't I?<br>I said I will call him again on Friday morning.<br>

... br>So there's my broadside against Mr. Dickens. The book itself is certainly more pleasant to read than say, Austen, and as a thinly veiled semi-autobiographical account, it's a much more authentic and instructive portrayal of that world - especially London - than contemporary reconstructions on film might serve. Still, I stand by my conviction that the best insight into the Victorians comes from Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary ...

... and de-grossified. Eventually we met up at The Basement with Adib, Bashar, Yoichi, Masashi, and their friend Mango who has a Scottish accent when we speaks English and their half-Jordanian half-Japanese friend who think Jordan is just a pile of rocks. It was a good time. Most everyone was super cool and we had a yummy a3rgileh. The Basement also makes really good American coffee so props for that, and the owner is really cool. He sent some figs over to our table that ...

... Jerash is een oude Romijnse stad, die heel mooi bewaard is (bij WIDM waren ze in het Hyppodroom, en misschien ook wel in het Amfitheater). Daar slenterden we uren rond, met Nona en de Rough Guide als gids. In de Artemis Tempel raakten we aan de praat met Ali, de verveelde tourguide van een groep Chinezen. Die zei dat de weg terug naar Amman met Ramadan nog wel eens lastig zou kunnen worden, dus hij regelde weer een lift voor ons. Leuk die Chinezen! We moesten ons ...

... Wadi Rum. <br><br>Petra er et område hvor Nabateanerne hugde ut fantastiske templer, graver, handelsplasser og religiøse bygninger i fjellveggene. Mange vil nok kjenne igjen fasaden til det berømte skattkammeret (som ikke er et skattkammer) fra Indiana Jones. Her var vi så heldige å møte på en lokal guide, som hadde satt igjen eselet sitt før en trang dal. Vi ble spurt om å føre det tilbake til leiren, noe vi gjorde med ...

... desert and can go east for the sun or west for the clouds,&#8221; he says.<br> &#8220;I like the scale of Amman. Downtown is like a hole, surrounded by steep hills. It feels communal, you can see friends&#8217; homes across the valleys. There are the contour lines of the hills and vertical lines made by the steep roads and footpaths. It feels like snakes and ladders. I feel claustrophic in the West Bank.&#8221;<br> The hilly downtown area called Jebel Amman recalls ...

... t really sample any of the nightlife or anything, but it was fun to see the antiquities, and Sham El Sheikh would be a ton of fun if we had more money and more time. Overall - 85%. I really enjoyed Egypt, but that being said, I don't think I would go back for quite a long time. I don't know what would really draw me back, perhaps the resorts at Sharm (I hear they are building a Bellagio), or to see some of the more ancient Egyptian stuff in Luxor or Aswan.

... camp for you I guess... Then she tried again and the same thing happened...you'd think she'd learn to put a little muscle behind it. <br><br>To get a better view of the sunset we had to walk south from our camp. We climbed up on another high rock and got some awesome views across the desert. I honestly didn't think the desert could be so beautiful, but it certainly was. Henry was right, the evening and night is the best time to be out in Wadi Rum. <br><br>Dinner wasn ...