Hillside Hotel Amman

The last leg was back to where we started our Jordanian trip at the Amman Hillside Hotel. To our delight, Osama, the lovely receptionist I mentioned, had upgraded us to a SUITE!!! What a pleasure, we are on the 7th floor away from the noise and have a ...

... up the stairs there.  We still got some good pictures, in addition to the ones from the Citadel way up on the hillside.  After the ampitheatre we headed home, which was only about a 15 minute walk, but also included some steep hills.  ...

... is a fact that it’s spread out over numerous little hills, so when driving through, occasionally a nice view of an urbanised hillside emerges. The city is comprised of a maze of irregular streets making it hard to navigate for people like me. A ...

... can even see the remain of the mosaic floor. It's about 4:00 pm  as we head back to Amman. The group stays at different hotel. When the bus dropped of some people at the Kempinski hotel we noticed a number of shops and restaurants closed ...

... Roman streets, temples, theaters, and monuments, Jerash is thought to be only 10 percent excavated. Across a river and up a nearby hillside is the modern city of Jerash that has been built atop a virtual sea of additional ruins and untold treasures. ...

... ;and watch people going about their every day business is quite unbeleivable. Today we visited The Roman Theatre which is cut into a hillside, infact all of Jordan is, its very hilly with steep streets and alleyways everywhere.  The Theatre is well ...

... and is the oldest part of Amman.  I wandered in the back way I guess, past some rickety old houses stacked on the hillside and past the sheep grazing amongst some 1st cent. AD ruins.  I had to cross through the temple of Hercules to get to the ...

... The second 10 kms was along highways, but there were good paved shoulders for us to ride on. Then we were bussed up the hillside a bit to a panorama picnic site, and we scrambled around the rocks and watched the sun set over the Dead Sea and the West ...

... not staying here. Let’s check in somewhere else.” Half an hour later, we were safely ensconced inside the plush Le Meridian Amman Hotel. It was expensive, but what the hell, we thought. We were on holiday for God’s sake! That evening we ...

... furniture, and artifacts.  They were both excellent and Ed bought a hand woven silk pillow cover.   There's nothing near the Hillside Hotel, but in our walk around we asked the 2 women who were staffing the front desk of the Queen Hostel where ...

... I would expect). As we ride across a particularly slippery rock on a slope, Mr. William slips and falls, sliding down the hillside. Of course, as accidents of this nature go, Manu is still caught in the stirrups and gets dragged down with the horse. ...

... ; The picturesque snorkeling spot near Aphrodite’s bath, on the way to Cape Akamas §  Our stay in Pedoulas, a small hillside town in the Troodos Massif, famous for its Unesco World Heritage-listed Byzantine churches §  The size of the ...

... views of the city.  It is also the location where Jesus ascended to Heaven and will return on Judgment Day.  The hillside also serves as a large Jewish cemetery.  Just below the Mount of Olives is the Church of all Nations.  Within ...

... . Oh well, at last we were in Aqaba. I almost felt like Aladdin in the city of Agrabah! LOL Aqaba is set on a hillside above the Red Sea and extends down to the shoreline where the Corniche runs along the beachside. There were plenty of hotels and it ...

... on our second evening there. In the grounds of the hotel was a fast-flowing rocky stream, fed by several waterfalls cascading down the hillside. You could stand under the falls or just sit in the stream with hot water passing you by. It was a wonderful ...

... this point- it had been about 11 hours on the road, I spent most of my time exploring some old bunkers and trenches on the hillside (no idea on age, but kind of recent). The bunkers and trenches had just been abandoned so you had to be careful not to ...