Dweik 2 Aqaba

... and yes, two days later I could swim ! I invited my friends to the beach and after some time I walked into the water. I could feel the eyes of my friends in my back. They must have thought I was going to commit suicide. I just took a dive and SWAM.. as I had never done something else. My friends were stunned like if they had seen a camel flying

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After one week vacation at Dahab Claudio and me leave to experience the last chapter of our egyptian "joy"ride: ThePassport and Customs clearance!
Arrived at 11:00 at Nuweiba, the port of departure to travel by ferry to Jordan (as traveler are not supposed to travel in Israel if a entry to Syria is required / demanded), we got the tickets and startet the customs procedure. It took a full 2,5 ...

... of the trip. We are thrilled to be going there. Eilat is so close to Aqaba, that we saw it across the Gulf as we landed here in Aqaba. I felt like Moses, able to see Israel, but unable for the moment to be there. Time is passing so quickly, as it always does on good holidays, and we already see the end of our journeys in sight. IT will be difficult to get back to reality after this 3-month life-altering trek.

We wish you the best.
David and Bonnie

... while riding camels in their traditional clothing, which was also quite a sight. After we descended the Jebel and our guide made us a delicious lunch and tea over an open fire, for the second day in a row we were told to march in to the desert. We walked under the intense sun yet again, but did enjoy the scene around us. Our guide picked us up after about 45 minutes and drove us back to the village of Wadi Rum and we made our way back to Petra.

... to the hotel, got some face cream, dental floss, found the nut store and then had some warmed buns with cheese inside. They were good, so good we had another one.

We will have to figure something out for dinner, lots of places roasting whole little chickens on a spit outside of a restaurant, so we may try some of that.

Everyone is pleasant and say hello to us - guess what - they aren't trying to lure us into their store or sell us something!

... before my lungs were going to pop, I laid down and rolled all the way to the bottom. I had sand in places that I never thought possible! Tip take off your sunglasses, closes your eyes and your MOUTH!!!!!! Our guide painted us girls in red sand on the cheeks for rouge and on the lips for lipstick. Bedouin Makeup...we looked like clowns. After my hot tea (for the tummy I am told) we all loaded back into the back, me with half the desert in my ...

We left Petra close to noon for a short 1 hour trip into Rum village which has nothing to do with "rum" as we know it and is completely absent of the stuff thanks to Islam, and in particularily, thanks to Ramadan. We grabbed some snacks at a "super market" (aka: cookies and bread place) before headed off on our 4 X 4 adventure into the desert. Heath insisted that we climb into the Landrover Defender D110 that ...

... english. I sat to take a seat in the far corner and the feeling of all those pairs of eyes on me was just terrible. I literally closed my eyes and realized that this was crazy and that this was hell. If I managed to make it to Jordan, I seriously considered throwing in the towel. This was insane.. I had no one to turn to, I was alone in every sense, there was not ONE tourist in sight (the joys of low season)... and I didn't think I was even going to ...

... inscriptions (can't seem to find a date on those, but they're old), check out 'Lawrence's house' (probably nothing to do with Lawrence, but a nice vantage point), climb a rock bridge, before heading to more sand dunes to watch the sun set, and finally, to our camp for the night. The stars are amazing.

... taxi driver who, by driving us around Aqaba's dense network of downtown streets and alleys earlier this evening, unnecessarily, shamelessly and quite obviously extended our taxi ride from the ferry terminal to our chosen hotel (thus jacking up his fare). Taking the above quote into consideration, it was a slight shock to our systems once we realised what he had done (we immediately concluded there must have been Egyptian blood in him somewhere) but we were prepared to let it ...