Diamond Hotel Petra

... us some truly remarkable sights. I can hardly wait. In the darkness and slightly after 1900 our group arrives at the Diamond Hotel in Petra. Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the Diamond is not what its name would suggest. Since this Imaginative ...

... it is hard to imagine what the main site would be like the following day.  After a brief hike we headed to our hotel, Petra Diamond, which was a little low on the quality rating but worked good enough.  Dinner was at the hotel this night and the ...

... and wanted to leave early to get a beer downtown, but we stayed with the group and got a beer in the lobby of the Diamond Petra Hotel in Wadi Musa (Moses Valley).  As promised, the kitchen did a BBQ and dinner was magnificent.  We got a skewer ...

We stayed in a very pleasant 2 star hotel with a tour bus full of Dutch tourists, who were a lot of fun, the next day we were off to Wadi Rum.  This was the most beautiful part of the trip, lots of memories.  The only gruesome part was the tour ...

... at our hotel, the Petra Diamond Hotel, at 7 PM.  We knew our previous hotel was too good to continue, as the Petra Diamond Hotel is another one of a long line of hotels used by Imaginative Traveller needing lots of updating and repair.  We can ...

... the carving detail is weathered, but all the architectural elements are still there. Thanks to my exceptionally self-important Petra pamphlet sitting beside me (it uses phrases such as "beautifully awesome"), I can tell you the Nabataeans were influenced ...

... giving donkey, horse or camel rides or selling jewelery and wares along the path. That night we stayed in Little Petra, which is a Bedouin camp ala hotel. An experience I will never forget, sleeping in tents, eating Bedouin food. In the morning we saw a ...

... cuddly-puppy faces, they offer to have it ready at 11:30. [9:45] Stroll around again in Tel Aviv. [10:30] Found the diamond museum, get in for free somehow and spend an hour learning about these precious little gems. [11:30] Receive VISA and figure ...

... Didyma which was also fantastic. Essentially just one temple is all that remains.  The temple of Apollo. And honestly this temple is a diamond in the rough. They saved the best for last on this tour. The temple was fantastic. Huge and largely in tact. I ...

... Iguanas, Lava Lizards, Green Sea Turtles, Marble Rays, Lots of Tropical fish, White tipped / Black tipped reef sharks, Diamond Rays,  Birds - Frigate Bird, Yellow Warbler, Great Blue Heron, Greater Flamingo, Blue Footed Boobies, Nazca Boobies, ...

... offered me his DNA... stay tuned for the results. LATVIA - RIGA, VALMIERA: This city where my great grandmother, Ettie Diamond, lived in her childhood. She and her siblings were born in northern Lithuania, between the towns of Zhagare and Akmian. Most ...

... .  I found a fossilized stone. the area had once been a ocean, so all kinds of fossils remain.  We collected "diamond"  which were gypsum. Please remember that it is dark out and we did all this by flashlight or cell phone light.   We ...