Days Inn Hotel Aqab Aqaba
Al-saada Street, P.O. Box 1189 Aqaba, Jordan
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Final days...& a Premiership!
Started the day (smooth skin still) with a tour of Amman, explored the citadel, a few ruins and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls...they were pretty clever actually, and again stupidly old!
We were driving a fair distance today, from Amman back down to Aqaba on the Red Sea, lucky I can read in buses now! On the way we stopped at Mount Nebo, …
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Wadi Rum camp
... Lawrence of Arabia was filmed - at this point we realised how the trip would go. Salim our driver who could speak almost no english sortof waved up at the cliff - it was only that I had read abit about Wadi Rum I guessed it was the spring. " do we stay here or do we climb up ? " yes was the answer.
So basically we were taken to a number of key sites in the desert but had to guess which one, and certainly got no information as to the desert, ...
More Flashbacks from the 90's
... just over $1.50 Canadian!). The nearest liquor store was just outside the hotel, but the hotel had a no food/beer rule, so every night I would have to smuggle in the booze to our room. Kat and I had a great, drunken time in Aqaba!!! Along with the cheap beer Aqaba has lots of cheap good food. We ate at a local restaurant opposite our hotel and had some great hummus, felafel and chicken tikka sandwiches. Kat also had an unusual but surprisingly good drink- lemon juice with mint. Try it- ...
Nothings too far from Aqaba! (Lol!)
... to look at some ancient carvings. A mountain loomed in the distance with a sharpish peak. The tour guide assured me this was Mount Bin Neavas. No! Surely not? Don’t try to Wikipedia this. I’ve already tried and can’t find it. Maybe I have spelt it wrong but that’s what it sounded like!!!
As we turned a corner the jeep came to an abrupt halt. The driver got out and proceeded to let air out of the tires. The jeep front wheels were caught fast. ...
How many camels to make you happy?
... it. Petra is an ancient city built by the Nebateans & it's deservedly one of the 7 wonders of the world. Walking in through the 1.2 km winding natural sandstone gorge known as the Siq is magnificent & some of the sights are breathtaking. The gorgeous Treasury & Monastery & all the caves carved out of the rock - you wonder how they did it. One of the highlights was the conversations we had over cups of tea with the local Bedouins as we caught a ...



