Ramada Hotel And Suites Amman

... specifically, the Temples of Hercules and Malcolm). The Jordan Archeological Museum is also at this site, and contains some of the oldest statues in Jordan (and, in some cases, in the Arab world), including some Dead Sea Scrolls child skeletons (we learned that the burial of infants in jars was a common custom in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Palestine; the jar generally was placed under the family’s living room floor to keep the child within the family circle ...

... smell). I climbed another flight of stairs to find a great spot. There was a soccer match on TV, old guys playing backgammon, and shisha was just one JD (as cheap as it gets in Jordan). I wanted to get into a game but didn’t want to interrupt anyone playing or randomly approach a guy who wasn’t interested, so I opened up a board and began playing against myself. The Egyptian working the café came up to me and asked if I was playing with ...

... we work with including those in Israel and Palestine, we be gathering to form the numbers 350 with our bodies on the shore for a series of photographs taken from a plane. We will also be taking some of our student participants on tours of specific areas in the Jordan Valley as a part of an environmental education program. Should be a good time. So this is the stuffs I was/am working on at work now. Masashi was back from the ecopark so we also took some time out to further plan for ...

... a triumph since purses in this country can generally carry a small child a lunch snack. $28JD for two pairs of heels and the clutch....plus an hour to spare before I was to be picked up. I was on a shopping high which was even better than the feeling I got when the bus dropped me off at the 5th Circle after work. I also got a call from my pops when I was in the cab on the way home. We had a good chat and I shared my awesome shopping experience and ironed out ...

Morning in Madaba to see the ancient map of the Holy Land, done in mosaics and still in place on the floor of St. George's Church. It shows Jerusalem, Palestine, even as far as the Sinai and Nile back in Egypt. Interesting to visit, but like all the other religious sites it was packed with tourists and felt like a bit of a zoo.

According to the trip outline today we were supposed to visit the ...

... for the day and I am off for the day. I successfully frolic to the bus, hop on, pay, and explain where I need to get off. 1 point for me. Then I cross the street at the 8th Circle without being hit by oncoming traffic and grab a taxi quasi-successfully (it ended up being a share taxi which took me by surprise). Once I reach FoEME I burst through the door a bright ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, ready to greet ...

... headed out to Suk Jara again just to have something to do. It is right off of Rainbow Street, a huge development project that includes dozens of coffee shops, bookstores, retail, etc, so we also went that way and decided to have tea/coffee at the Old View Café because you can sit on the roof and in a city made of hills and valleys there seem to always be a great view no matter where you are. There was a small cover charge for Ramadan but we decided to go ...

... drivers in Jordan, Egypt and Israel. We planned to spend the first day resting and getting over jet lag, but the fact was that we felt pretty good, and did not want to waste a day. Still, I heartily recommend building in a day of rest, every 3-4 days of travel. The hassels of a foreign country never cease to pop up, and the soul really does need a break from time to time.
Amman, Jordan hajjabdullah

... talking to people left and right. He at one point pulled a U-Turn and started going the wrong way down the side of a divided road... It was quite interesting... but he got us there.

We made the bus just in time. The buses don't really run on a schedule per se, they just wait around until they are ful. At 8:23 our bus was full... We were not the only white people on the bus. Surprisingly there was a family from Burlington, VT with two kids under the age ...

... br>On the way back to our hotel in the Swafea district that night, I decided to bring my family back the following year for a visit. At least I would know the way! A two star hotel is definitely the way to go. We had met other Americans and Brits here and there who complained about the western prices in such a backward country. On our last day in Jordan, we stayed at the Queen Alia hotel so that we would be close to the airport the next day. With ...