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Travel Blogs from Amman
So Far--Upto Jordan
So far as I have traveled, I have noticed several interesting things as well as experienced new things. Here is a short list: 1. Cell phones from other countries work in other countries, just not ones from the States 2. Verizon has nothing on the amount of coverage outside the States. In the middle of the Serengeti plains, our guide's phone was …
Day 14 - We are in Amman, Jordan
This is going to be a quick one because we are both quite exhausted from a day of being on the road. We left our hotel in Istanbul at 10:30, checked in and stood in queues for several hours before boarding our flight on Royal Jordanian headed for Amman. Very pleasant 2 hour flight with on board movies and all. We then headed to the Jordan tourist office to get some advice on getting to our hotel. He pointed us in the direction of ...
Mount Nebo, Jerash and Time for Farewells
... ended at café where a few of us ordered some drinks. However Gerry was getting nervous as Nolan, Andrew, and himself had a taxi to catch to the airport at 10:30pm for a 1am flight. Eventually we paid for our drinks took our final group photos and headed for the taxi. It took us around 10 minutes to get from the hotel to the restaurant. However on the way back the driver missed an exit and to this day I think the driver had no idea where he was going. Even though ...
Brave New World
... driver won't come and inshallah I can drive you to your office in Amman." In response I said "Inshallah that my driver comes then!"
I can honestly say that if he had not shown me where to go, I probably would still be walking around the entry terminal trying to figure out where to go next. I couldn't find my driver - JT - right away and he offered to wait with me until he arrived. I did eventually locate ...
The view aint bad, though
... been made, but the people who made the mosaic did get confused when making it and it definitely wasn’t to scale (Jerusalem would have been as big as most countries otherwise, I’m not really up on religion, but there are lots of churches shown in Jerusalem on the mosaic
Another thing I never knew was that Greek was the spoken language for some 450 years in the area, before the others came along (Aramaic, Arabic, ...