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Jewels of Jordan

A travel blog entry by roryandshelley

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... listening to a bit of kiwi music.
A quick walk after sunset and we were at a campsite. I have to say, this camp was awesome. In Morocco we slept on mattresses under the stars, here, we had our own private shacks with beds, pillows and blankets. The camp even had showers and a flushing toilet – talk about flash!
We wondered why dinner was taking so long. Our guides then lead us outside where they starting shovelling sand away from a circular metal tray. ...

Mount Nebo, Jerash and Time for Farewells

A travel blog entry by luckshmy.subash

... walking into a small theatre where if you stand and speak from a point your whole voice echoes around the theatre. This is where G Adventure tour Idol took place and the only contestant was Lucky who sang the song "This is a song that doesn’t end…." The crowd cheered for her, well the crowd of 10 people. After chasing shade at every point we reached the Temple of Artemis and relaxed there until a local came along and showed a trick where he moved one ...

Brave New World

A travel blog entry by mcantrell83

... for everything. While the price seems steep, the advantage of this is that I cut my wait time from about 3 hours to 1.5. While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for my documents to be returned to me on the Israeli, a man kept trying to engage my eye contact.

I don't typically like when men try to engage my eye contact.

At some point, he said something to me in Arabic to which I just shook my ...

Jordan and the City of Petra

A travel blog entry by theclossonclan

... took us quite a while and we were really happy to see the top.
The next day we drove to a Bedouin tribe camp to spend a night in the Wadi Rum desert. The Wadi Rum is the largest desert in Jordan and has monolithic rock scapes that reach heights of 1750 meters. It was also the setting for the 1962 movie, Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. We went on a 3 hours jeep through the desert, stopped to have some authentic Bedouin tea ...

Travel Joran schwarzschild

A travel blog entry by schwarzschild

We visit Jordan from time to time
Its Little more then 1 hour drive from Haifa Israel to border crossing to Amman !
Jordanian are nice and welcome people
if you like the desert and oasis it is the place- and good ...