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Al Hussein Bin Ali Street, PO Box 6399 Amman, Jordan, +96265607100
This trip was full to the brim with feats of human engineering and art - the pyramids, the sphinx, the royal tombs and the mighty temples. But, for us, Petra might have been the most amazing, perhaps because we had few expectations about it. The walk through the long,deep,narrow gorge or siq of beautiful sandstone was a delight itself. Then, up ahead we glimpsed what looked like a lovely Greek building. The siq opened onto a plaza in front of the Treasury. There carved into the sandstone clif...
Petra, Jordan krgentzlerThere was no room at the inn in Petra. (This is not a stable story.) So, we weary travelers had to go to Aqaba and the brand new RadissonSAS resort on the Red Sea. What luxury! Standing on the Sunset Deck, we looked out at several swimming pools that constantly changed color and the sea. The evening breeze was warm, and the live music from below was mellow. How romantic! On our morning walk on the beach, we found sea glass and a few shells. Sitting on comfortable lounges, we soaked up the sun...
Aqaba, Jordan krgentzlerRoyal Jordanian Airline RJ504 15:30 - 17:50 IndusTravel Jordan Highlight tour Since you cannot take photos in the museum, we walked over to the museum at 9 am opening. We can see tour buses are already starting to queue up. You have to go thru 1st security check just to get into the court yard area after passing the tourist police (one even stood behind a bomb blast shield). Looks is every thing not sure how effective it is if something really happens. Went around the court yard to take pictu...
Amman, Jordan penguinxThe roof top restaurant is very nice, having breakfast while watching the sun rise in Jordan.. How cool is that! We met up with our guide Ayman at the lobby and boarded the mini bus to start the tour. There are 9 in the group. A couple from Pennsylvania Tammy & Mike. 2 older couples that became friends after meeting each other from previous travel tour. They just came from a tour of Syria. And a Marian who used to lived in Amman and her ex-husband used to be a CIA agent stationed in Jord...
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... 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 ...
Amman, Jordan david_chung... However, other things have really been bothering me. For instance, nothing’s easy here. There’s always something wrong with my cell phone, or the internet, or the TV, or the shower, or the toilet, or anything else you can imagine. What’s worse is the customer service. You call the customer service hotline and will either wait on hold for hours and eventually give up, or the company will say they’ll come help and then they won’t show up, or ...
Amman, Jordan ashleyheacock... many skimpy dresses and shirts and outfits hung up in most clothing stores. I saw two women in traditional garb enter a store filled with Western women's clothing, spaghetti strap tops, tight jeans...what were they buying? I don't know. There were also lots of lewd t-shirts in English. I really couldn't put my finger on what was actually getting sold in a lot of these stores. There was one section that had wedding dress stores and lingerie stores...but they were ...
Amman, Jordan jimmyandkristen... that was called Karak and we stopped there. The Castle had mostly been destroyed but there were still a few little rooms here and there the best thing about it was the view it looked right to the dead sea. After the castle we had a gross lunch with a whole bunch of tourists. After lunch we went and saw Greek mosaics in a town called Madaba. The most famous of their mosaics was a map of the whole Middle East and its most ...
Amman, Jordan grossmanjh... at our destination. He spoke of his country with pride and how he wanted the world to know what a kind and beautiful place Jordan was. He had no agenda. He was just terribly kind, to the point where when I enquired about his two HUGE water melons which were keeping me company in the back seat, he insisted that we take one. The fact that they were approximately 0.5m x 0.3m in volume, meant the gesture could not be received without serious injury being sustained, so we reluctantly and ...
Amman, Jordan benkirk... city with lots of traffic and I felt a bit lonely been the only person in the hostel and being in a new city. My flash drive has packed up on me it must of picked up some virus so I had to but another on and transfer all my photos onto to it. The Internet cafe I was doing it on was really bad and it took ages to do and I could feel myself getting annoyed with it all after being so tired so I just walked away and did it all ...
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