Days Inn Amman

... on their day trip to Jerash and the Dead Sea. This trip held a lot of adventures, planned and unplanned ones. First, driving in Amman is crazy, everybody just kind of finds their way, there is no such thing as a straight road, and signs are typically in ...

... We had a great vegetarian/Jordanian dinner at the hostel which was delicious... I can't get enough falafel. After 2 days at Petra we hopped the minivan to Amman, the capital city.  En route we adopted a Ozzie from Perth, who was also on the ...

... days from a holiday in Cambodia on his way to take up his post in Jo'burg.  He took us on a tour of Amman - the buildings generally square, local pale cream to gold sandstone and no higher than 4-5 storeys, some villas but mainly small apartment ...

So technically I'm not in Amman right now, we're sort of on our way back from the past few days in the Jordan Valley working with Friends of the Earth Middle East. We're currently at the Holiday Inn Dead Sea enjoying our last day seaside/poolside/spaside. ...

Started the day (smooth skin still) with a tour of Amman, explored the citadel, a few ruins and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls...they were pretty clever actually, and again stupidly old! We were driving a fair distance today, from Amman back down to Aqaba on ...

... think to check. Hmmmm… We stayed at a hotel called the Golden Tulip. This eight story hotel is opposite the Hilton and Days Inn, and close to Pizza Hut and Burger King. The hotel reception had a parrot in a big cage which kept whistling, squawking ...

... . Luckily there was one small café or else Maureen would have eaten my arm off. We had to fly Athens to Cairo via Amman on Jordanian airlines and I must admit it was one of the best flights I have had yet. They really are embracing equal opportunity as ...

Finalment he decidit fer el viatge d'Amman a Petra sense aturar-me pel mig a visitar mes runes de castells templaris, amb les que visitare a Siria i a Israel ja n'hi haura mes que suficient. En el microbus que ens duu a Wadi Musa la majoria de la gent son ...

... at our hotel and another morning enjoying the hot springs (during a short and unexpected shower of rain), we headed to Amman's Queen Alia International Airport where we deposited our hire car at the Hertz office before joining our short flight back down ...

... and water galore and now we're set. Tomorrow Joe and I are going to Petra, while Andrew and Nick are heading up to Amman.  I'm extremely happy right now, I've met some amazing amazing people and I'm having such a great time. I love the challenges ...

... one. But alas I didn't.  Then we arrived at our hotel. The next day was a free day, i was planning to go to jerash and Amman but instead decided because of the heat stroke I would just take it easy. I spent most of the day sleeping by the hotel pool and ...

... to have a walk around.  Unfortunately, only about 20% can be seen as it has been built on!  Then some free time in Amman.   As we set off to leave Amman we got cut up by some bright spark driving a Merc.  Thanks to Johnno's superb ...

... and after a bit of an emotional goodbye (she made me a really sweet Bon Voyage card with a lovely message), I flew to Amman and then after three hours in Jordan, flew onto Bangkok. Contrary to my preconceptions flying with Royal Jordanian was actually ...

... cypress pines; olives and oleander, fringe the roads and spill out of the rocky gardens. The driving must be a formidable task in Amman, as the roadmap looks like something done by Escher. If you wanted to make it even more realistic, you could scrunch ...

... return with more of these ‘air mattresses’.  We enjoyed one last dinner with the remaining members of our group and then caught a 4 am flight to Amman, Jordan, where Petra, the Pyramids, and most importantly Joe and Darienne ...

... digested half of Israel's food supply, was on his way to the Tel Aviv airport for departure on Royal Jordanian Airlines, via Amman, Jordan, to Bangkok Thailand. Yes, the V Man is presently a Bangkokian. His digs: a studio apt with a "kitchen nook"; ...

... Luxor in Egypt, then taking it away, but then it was Easter so we couldn't find a room at the inn in Jerusalem, so we ended up back in Amman for two nights--this time at the Sheraton (US$60 with 4,000 points THANK YOU STARWOOD POINTS). The Sheraton ...

... 30 minutes.  What a joy border crossings can be. We had enough Syrian pounds for the journey from Damascus down to Amman, Jordan, which we had to surrender for Syria's convenient exit tax. Multiple-entry visas meant nothing in regards to this, nor ...