Irbid Hotel

... from Syria. Apparently it was not a good place to stay, and a few hours earlier, I had scoured my guidebook and discovered Irbid, population 1/2 million, might be a good place. How bizarre to be going to a city that to me, three hours ago, was non ...

... – all beautiful -- $35 AUD. Please God I have the exchange rate roughly right. We are currently in the Al- Cazar hotel – a formerly grand place and still pretty cool with pool (biggest one West of the Pennines according to the man), air con, ...

After a draining flight from Reno via JFK to Amman Jordan, we arrived at the Dove Hotel, Jabal Amman.  We found a travel Company on the Internet; Desert Paramour Tours, Petra.  They were great, provided us an itinarary and we stayed at the hotel ...

... , I continued to Irbid with the other Syrian, not really knowing where I was going.  Around midnight, however, I found a hotel with the help of a taxi driver who didn't want to charge me anything and friendly college kids, who were everywhere in ...

... réflexions, le proprio du café nous offre gratuitement le dessert. Dommage que nous n’ayons pas trouvé de chambre à Irbid. La ville semble accueillante. Nous prenons la décision de retourner à notre petite auberge de jeunesse d’Amman et ...

... beach equipment, we figure the public beach must be close, so walk up past what look like beach apartments (bungalows), to beyond the hotel and a construction site to a roughly flat vacant block, with a chain wire fence and an open gate. This has to be ...

... plek is in Brunei.  Mens kan mos net op n straat hoek staan en als “inasem”. Soos die laatmiddag in Irbid (noorde van Jordanie) se onderdorp, op die hoek se randsteen waar ons net gestaan en als ingeasem het.Of die warm sommers ...

... ; 100km Amman-Irbid  road  70 km  on Mountain roads to Jordan-syria border port ant stay in that port about 5-6 hours  because the traffic >< then we Sleep in Alkwait Hotel  dra'a -Syria   ,, 20 km from the ...

... that it does not have an oil supply like most of its neighboring Arab countries. But from this visit, along with my stay in Irbid three months earlier, the people have come across to me as very friendly and eager to show off Jordan's assets to the ...

... that can be renewed if need be. We arrived in Damascus 2 hours later and found a really great place to stay.... The Al Haramain hotel and waiting for us in reception was a guy from New Zealand called Brad who we had partied with in Dahab on New years, ...

... equivalent of Sunday). Leaving Umm Qais, the van spent half an hour doing bog laps to try and find more passengers before going on to Irbid, where we had to change bus stations (another bus) to catch a service taxi to Jerash. We stopped for a few hours in ...

... off for Damascus by bus.  The countryside was similar to the Jordan valley with maybe a little more green.  Whether in Irbid or Syria, it was really strange to see anything approaching the definition of lush.  Once in Damascus, we hopped in ...

... ; The country has two major universities: the University of Jordan (1962) in Amman, and Yarmulke University (1975) in Irbid. Other institutions of higher education include Utah University (1981) in Al Karaka, Jordan University of Science and Technology ...

... einfach zum Busbahnhof im Norden Ammans gehen und das Sammeltaxi an den Scheich-Hussein-Grenzuebergang im Jordantal westlich von Irbid, der zweitgroessten Stadt Jordaniens, nehmen. Das sollte nicht mehr als zwei Dinar kosten - dementsprechend hatte ich ...

... layover in FRA) to Amman, my trip was about 27 hours in duration.  Not fun.  Anyways, upon arrival I checked into the local hotel at nearly 4am, to wake at 7am for work that same day.  A long day that was, and a couple more after that as ...

... at the stars that spread all over the sky, we returned to the hotel and had a jam session with the young owners of the hotel who brought out their guitar and drum. The next day, we toured the ruins fo' free (using a freshly minted Jordanian Residency ...

... just seem to want to share. Humbling. It is now 2 am And so to Amman. Up at 6.30 and we drive Ibrahim to Irbid University and get a running commentary on Roman water pipes on the way. We aren’t allowed to park inside so are introduced as visitors ...

... , I guess. For the next leg of the relay, I was handed off to a microbus, a multi-passenger minivan that took me to Irbid, a university town in northern Jordan. I only saw the bus station, though, and wound up eing sort of adopted by one of the guys on ...