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Amman
We stepped out of the arrivals area into the usual airport arrivals chaos. Loads of people welcoming others and lots of people trying to sell you a ride somewhere. The Shepherd Hotel had agreed to send a driver for us for 24 JD. We found him easily and stepped out into the warm evening light of Amman. I can't tell you how good it smelled after 12+ …
Amman capital of Jordan
From Petra we drove to Amman the capital, we had a few stops along the way. Amman is a very neat city, tidy and clean. Its shows what good management can do. About 2 million of Jordan's 5million people live here. Lots of wealth here, heaps of range rovers and flash houses, its like Dubai, it has bombed here over last ten years. Jordan has one big …
We are in the Kingdom of Jordan!
After Yuri dropped us off in Nazareth yesterday afternoon, we learned that the scheduled bus to Amman, Jordan was not running. We hired someone to drive us 45 minutes to the Sheikh Hussein Bridge border crossing for about $40. Then the fun began. The Israelis charged us 94 shekels ($28) each exit tax then made us walk through their duty-free store …
Day 14 - We are in Amman, Jordan
... and we hopped on with the locals for an hour ride into Amman. We arrived at the North station and then caught a taxi to our hotel another couples of kilometres away. True to form the taxi driver lit up a ciggie on the way and charged us more than the metre. Our hotel is actually very decent considering it is on the outskirts of the city. Only issue is the reception guy doesn't have the best English vocab around and when we ...
Mount Nebo, Jerash and Time for Farewells
... us had anything important on, we were still stressed for Gerry and the boys as the taxi driver took his time. Somehow we arrived at the hotel, Gerry and the boys ran up to collect their gear while downstairs we took photos with everyone. Soon Gerry and the boys arrived and we wished them well as they were off. Cheng, Anthony, Vittoria and Mark were off in the early morning so we wished them well as well.
It was the beginning of many farewells to come for the next ...