Arrivée à Amman à 3h du matin. Il fait frais. On trouve rapidement un taxi qu'on paie beaucoup trop cher, un peu dans les vappes, même pas pensé à discuter le prix et pour le moment aucune idée de la valeur des choses. Après 25 ou 30 min, on arrive à Madaba. La ville est déserte. On pensait dormir au Madaba hotel, mais vu qu'il est 4h du matin p...

Well, I went to school after having coffee and toast with Barb and Les.  Someone has to work and it was me. :-)  I offered to come and get them during prep but they opted to stick around the house.  They did walk up to the new mall only to find nothing really open.  Certainly no coffee or food stores as it was now Ramadan.  So they walked back t...

So far our new relationship with Jordan had followed the usual pattern - at first it's all new experiences (Wadi Rum) and crazy sex (Petra), but eventually things slow down and you have to meet the friends (Dana, Shobak), then the parents (Amman, the Dead Sea), then the novelty wears off and you realize the sex isn't so much crazy as strange and...

(August 14, 2008 I deleted the entry previous to this one because I found it to be inacurrate and harsh. Basically the point I was trying to make though was that many men in Jordanian society will look at you, sometimes honk at you, or will make comments. They never hurt you but may make some women feel uncomfortable or annoyed. They usually are...

Amman and the Dead Sea The Dead Sea, a special place 1300 feet below sea level, Now slowly dropping more as Israel, Jordan take more from the Jordan River. So we walk farther down the "beach" to find water, No sand, the gravel whitened by salt crystals. Mud, precious mud, waiting to slather on, It cures every ill they say, can anything so ugly b...

The first thing I did when I got into Amman was switch hotels; this wound up involving a walk through the entire downtown area, which gave me a nice view of the area -- a frenzy of shops and souks, mostly, with no building over around 7 stories, much like Damascus. Amman is built on and between a patch of steep hills, which makes navigaton diffi...

Arriving in Amman, you immediately realize that you are definately not in Kansas anymore. Most of the signs are in Arabic only, the airport is circa 1965, and the city is crowded, frantic, and very conservative. Virtually all of the women are in Hijabs or Burkahs, and very little English is spoken. Fortunately, I met a very nice guy at the airpo...

Hello all. So I get to Jordan and Im exhausted so I pretty much spent the first couple of days kicking back, writing emails and sleeping. I had a bit of a look around\d the city. Up to the citidal and around the archeological museum. So Im walking around this relatively small museum and what do I see. The dead sea scrolls. Was kind of cool and v...

Travelblog 5 - Where am I? - 3/29/05 I am finally free in the city. I've escaped the confines of the lovely but limiting Amman Sheraton for an excursion on the streets. We, the 89 participants and the dozen or so staff and volunteers are loaded into buses and driven into the city at night for shopping - major girlie time. One bus heads to the Me...

Mother Al Hadid's family are owners of the college here. Her son, Mohammed, is the director. This was our first visit to their home. What a home! I would say, more of a palace. We parked to the side of the house and crossed under a set of stone arches to get to the main walkway. Then we climbed several stone steps to the solid glass entrance doo...