Rio Jordan

3 continents and 7 countries in 45 days!

5 years ago Kas and Squeak decided to travel for a year around the world in 2009. This is their travel blog of that year. Their round the world ticket has been bought the trip itself will unfold as we travel. We hope you enjoy reading about our travels.

2007 has been the most difficult year of my life so far...lost a lot of things...my company, then my family...then started to lose my sanity. Im travelling to the Middle East on a spiritual journey of sorts.

So this is it...the around the world trip here goes... but the disclaimer here is, I'll tell most of the details of my trip but the rest are left up to the imagination or you will have to read them in one of my novels when they get published.

From Chile to Nepal, join the random adventures on Kitty's World Tour...

... new cultures and learning about lives of others from all corners of the globe. Thankyou for taking an interest in my adventures, hopefuly parts of them will inspire you and others to follow suit and get saving and see as much as possible! jordan x

... Without hesitation, we quickly remove our gold necklaces, bracelets and rings. Anita's not about to take off the gold earrings I bought her in Jordan. But I convince her to do so once we get to the hotel. Luisa tells us that our stop is coming up, and as ...

... hacemos una breve parada sobre las montanyas para ver paisaje desertico de la zona, incluyendo las montanyas de Jerusalen, Gerico y el Rio Jordan, el cual separa los territorios palestinos de Jordania. Toda esta zona esta descrita en la Biblia, ya que ...

... llenos de plantaciones y animales de pastoreo que como si nada pasan por la autopista, haciendola suya. Las vistas del Valle del Rio Jordan son increibles, se nota la importancia del valle en la economia del Jordania pues su "verde" provee de alimento a ...

... on the border – they were happy for us to stay but chased off locals which seemed a trifle unfair. The River Jordan could be disappointing, a small green river (with beavers), but remember its long religious history . Water levels are much depleted ...

... ou o Laos, mas ninguém pro Brasil. Próxima parada, Wadi Mujib Nature Reserve, um grande canyon, com muitas trilhas, cachoeira e rio (é, no meio do deserto...rsrs). Foi a maior aventura do dia. Algumas trilhas podem demorar dias, mas como nosso tempo ...

... have been standing on the shore of a small river if there wasn't a fence keeping us about a meter off the water's edge. This was the Jordan River and in this area it was probably two to three meters wide. The land on the other side was the West bank (it ...

... covered three of them (Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, and now Cristo Redentor). The others are the Colosseo in Rome (seen that), Petra in Jordan (need to visit it!), the Great Wall in China (on the to-do list), and the Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico (want to ...

... Bethany, where Jesus was supposedly baptized according to local legend. The area now looks like a construction site with a near stagnant Jordan River no longer feeding the pool where Jesus is believed to have been baptized. I was not impressed. Actually, ...

... month trip around the world, which will take in twenty countries, and many more cultures and beliefs. My fellow traveller on this trip is jordan. So as not to bore you all rigid from the start, i will give you a brief run down of the highlights so far, ...

... , it’s dark. Taking particular care to choose a licensed taxi this time (it’s a risk I’m willing to take in Jordan, but not here), I encounter what is going to be a very big obstacle. “Português?” my driver asks me. ...

... students sitting on bleachers in the semi-enclosed field house.  One of our selections was the last performance of "Stan Still, Jordan" - we had had to purchase a pair of bongo drums for this piece upon arrival since they were too difficult to ...