Wadi Musa Hotels

... in Jordan, never been there, so it should be interesting (I hope) We will be moving about a bit during our week in Jordan, various hotels, not sure what the transport will be though, just hope it ain't a camel There are a few more things to see, all ...

... who dine in the evening, and can’t do it in their own hotels, finish with their meals and retreat to their rooms, Wadi Musa is nearly deserted. And that was the kind of town I walked around, taking an occasional picture and taking in some cool ...

... hotel. Out of those that I considered, of course. They still had a couple of rooms free, so I decided to stay right there. Wadi Musa is a town that until relatively recently probably even wasn’t a town at all, but rather only a village. But seeing ...

... .  The journey was about 2 hours from Aqaba and the driver took us the hotel (we paid 6JD each).  Minibuses from Aqaba to Wadi Musa run everyday from 7am till 2pm, but we left at 2pm ish so it looked like we caught the last minibus of the ...

... driving and walking and pictures, we went back on the road to petra.  on the way we went through two towns before wadi musa.  one was a bedouin town, the other a town called tayvet (i think).  the towns are nothing special, which perhaps ...

... salad. Yummy. (We even went back for another fill the day we picked up the truck in Petra.) We've been awoken each day in Wadi Musa by roosters - at 2:30 am! Crazy, mixed-up birds. We have gotten so used to the early morning call of the mosque we ...

... especially if you are in the Middle East. BUT...unless you are doing a super-fast day trip from Israel or Amman, you must stay in Wadi Musa. We can't say enough negative about this town. I guess it boils down to being in a town where probably 99% of their ...

... from the rock. After the Treasury, which was more likely a tomb of a king, Petra opened into a wider canyonland of Wadi Musa, surrounded by High Places of sacrifice and worship for the polytheistic pagan gods from around the Middle East.  Tombs ...

... and a half later.. After entering Jordan, our 17th country (19 if you count Hong Kong and Tibet), we got a taxi straight up to Wadi Musa, the service town for Petra, as we, at this stage of the journey, are tiring of bus stations and long waits... Along ...

... km-long Siq leading to the spectacular Treasury - famously featured in 'India Jones and the Last Crusade' (shown every night in local hotels). The other big attraction was the Monastery which involved climbing, or, (in the case of fat tourists) riding a ...

... Aiman.. could have just meet at the entrance since it was only a few feet away. Since the group is staying at difference hotels we have to somehow get everyone together. We get to the entrance and then waited for Aiman to get the ticket. While ...

... Wadi Feinan. Dana is an old fifteenth century village with rubbly old houses, cobbled streets and no signs of life outside the two hotels. Ours is the Dana Tower hotel, a very cozy and charming old place, very much in an old traditional hotel, with ...

... tourist :-) ), it is a good deal if they agree, it is a unique experience - and cheaper than anything they get from hotels, restaurants or travel agencies. For the Bedouin, it is a good source of income. If the tourists are girls, especially pretty ones, ...