Fishermans Point Resort Amman

... to MC Hammer, relieved every time he let out a chuckle or smiled. A break in our sing along came when a cop flashed a sign signaling us to stop. He clocked us going 40 km/h over the speed limit. That&#8217;ll be 40 JD, please. I was worried the driver would try to make me pay. He didn&#8217;t.<br><br>We finally arrived to the border, which meant I was safe (he wouldn&#8217;t be able to harm me in the presence of Jordanian police and I wasn&#8217;t ...

... s corporate apartment a cushy base of operations for exploring the south. Most of my stay in Bangladesh will be at Rohini and Sohini's dad's place, hopefully doing some volunteer work to pass the time.<br><br>Just to illustrate the contrast, I compiled a list of everywhere I've slept for these 82 days since ...

... us to drinks, Jordanian wine (a combination of tow of my favorite wines: cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir), vodka, and some Lebanese beer. Everyone else brought something too, notably yummy sweets and Japanese sake...I think I mentioned before that all of my friends here are either Jordanian or Japanese, so hence the much appreciated sake. Janis did her thing and Mango had his hookah too. Overall it was a good time. Have you ever tried to explain the meaning ...

... wirklich genug Guthaben habe kaufe ich gleich nochmal 10 JD Guthaben dazu. (Am Ende meiner Reise werde ich noch 10 JD übrig haben, obwohl ich fast täglich mehrere Gespräche mit meinen Freunden vor Ort geführt habe...). Blieb nur noch das Problem mit dem Geldabheben. Auf dem Rückweg zum Hotel finde ich zumindest einen Automaten, der meine Maestrokarte nimmt - sammt PIN.<br><br>Gegen Mittag rufe ich meinen Fotografen-freund an, der sich ab ca 13 Uhr Zeit für mich nehmen möchte. Wir ...

... is being so full and then just laying back on these cushions against the wall and chillaxing. After some Arabic tea AND coffee, haha, I was dropped back at the Eco Park where I just chilled with Yoichi and Masashi, talking, playing cards, and what not until it was time to go to sleep. We slept on small mats in the main room of the building because it has a ceiling fan (the Valley is at least 10 degrees hotter then Amman). <br> <br>Monday:<br> <br>Masashi ...

... to use that I named R2D2 but is actually something like the Hitachi 3000. I vacuum everything&#8230;the hard floor, the rugs, the furniture, the shelves, the tables, everything. We now have 70% less desert dust than we had before. Devan concentrated on the kitchen and you can actually see the stove now that decades of grease have been scrubbed off it.<br><br>The only thing more satisfying than cleaning the apartment was getting my laundry done ...

... and I was eager to set off on my week-long tour of this country. Below is attempt to recount summarily the highlights of my time in Jordan....<br><br>PS-I am creating just one blog entry for Jordan under "Amman", but am setting map pins to mark the different cities at which our tour stopped overnight. <br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <br><br> ~After spending our first night in Jordan in the port city of Aqaba (which shares its ...

... customs officials were a darker shade of brown. Amman was unrecognisable from the grey capital we had toured through five months before. Burning heat sears into white skin and long legged tourists who have picked up digestive problems in Damascus retch out of what were previously white taxis. It was a good reminder that just because you've been somewhere once- doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that you 'know' what that ...

... a tucked in polo shirt. He was the least dressed up of the group. <br><br>But I digress, I guess...not really this trip is about learning and thinking. When we arrived in Wadi Musa, the gateway city to visit Petra, we went to the Cleopetra Hotel, which is recommended in wikitravel.org and was recommended by the guy at the front desk at the Farah Hotel, where we stayed in Amman. We didn't have a reservation, like the odd family in the back of the bus, but we thought ...

... Syria, thus the likelihood of him actually making it was slim to none... After getting settled in we decided to go exploring and took a great two hour walk around downtown Amman. Unfortunately we arrived at the Roman Theater, which seats over 6000 and is quite large, too late to go in, but it was kind of nice to look inside the gates at the ncient theater completely empy, without loads of tourists to ruin it, potentially. We looked ...