Jordan - life after Syria

Trip Start Apr 27, 2008
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Trip End May 24, 2008


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Where I stayed
Friars hotel
(Amman hotels)

Flag of Jordan  , Amman,
Saturday, May 10, 2008

We found it difficult to book any accomodation in Damascus so decide to travel on directly to Jordan. We travelled by Service Taxi deciding to hire one dedicated to ourselves. The cost was approx 50 Euro's which was  great for the service especially as the driver assisted with all the border processes. Of course he was able to use our duty free alcohol allowance to purchase his discount bottles.

Of couse we were still in a smoke cloud - smoking in Turkey/Syria/Jordan continues everywhere including restaurants, buses, inside outside everywhere - I'm sure some tourists come just so the can smoke. Tobacco is even sold loose in the markets.

As we passed through Damascus we noticed that is appeared to be like any other modern city. There we obvious signs of wealth. The poor people appear to be in the provinces.

Amman is a neat city. Many of the hotels are in poor repairs including the one we stayed at but the people are friendly and the city is busy. We had a wonderfull meal at a very basic restaurant. They have very entrepenurial Taxi drivers - we stopped a Taxi to take us to the bus station so we could catch a bus to Petra, our next destination. The taxi driver convinced us that we should use his services to take us from Amman to Petra on the kings highway.

See Petra entry.
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