Aqaba Travel Blogs

This morning we ate breakfast at the Movenpick’s fantastic buffet, then headed over to Dive Aqaba, just down the street. We had booked ourselves on an all-day dive trip in the Red Sea. Very exciting! We walked in to Dive Aqaba and I immediately felt welcomed and comfortable. It felt good to be in…

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)Aqaba had always been a destination within Jordan that i had been interested in visiting. The thought of long stretches of sandy beach, with ample opportunities to dive and snorkel sounded oh so appealing. Thus, i was a littl…

At 9 in the morning we were picked up with a small van to go to a beach some 10 kilometres south of Aqaba. The warm water and minimal tides make the Gulf of Aqaba ideal for diving. Virtual all of the diving sites are accessible from the beach (or a pier) so you don't need a boat. That latter made t…

I was working on an old steam ship, a tramp steamer, in 2008 and we made two trips to Aqaba in 2008. On the first trip we went from Lake Charles, LA with a partial load of grain to an Army ammunition base in North Carolina and loaded some military cargo to be delivered to the Egyptian Army in Alexa…

The temperature was unbearably hot. For the past weeks from Turkey to Syria to Jordan, I was entering from hot to super hoottt and I was about to enter Egypt - unsurpassed hotness! Being the geographical location, it is not advisable travelling in Middle East in August. Never in a million years I…

Hello Jordan!!  Wow – we love Jordan.  The people here are so friendly.  Baksheesh (tipping) isn’t as big as it is in Egypt and neither is the begging.  The country is beautiful and a lot cleaner than Egypt also.  We left Nuweiba on Sunday on the ferry.  The fe…

After crossing the border from Eilat, Israel into Jordan, we took a quick taxi into the heart of Aqaba.  Aqaba is a beautiful little city right on the Red Sea in the south of Jordan.  We booked a room in a lovely little budget hotel right on the sea, and crashed for an hour or so before i…

We eventually found a mini van driver that was willing to take the six of us from Wadi Musa to Aqaba even though all public busses had stopped for the day. The price was 7JD each which seemed reasonable. Once we were moving the driver insisted we all pay an extra JD each to make up for the empt…

Slept in Friday morning, which was no big deal since Bait Ali doesn’t roll out their buffet breakfast until 8AM.  A common complaint throughout my Jordanian adventure was a failure to communicate, and Bait Ali is a prime example.  It took over a month to get  a response to repeat…

During Christmas and NYE I spend my time in Jordan. It was my first time there and I loved it and didn't want to leave. I took about 500 pictures, but I wont show them all haha. I'll wright my journal later, first it's time to show some pictures!!

    We were in port for a day and having been to Petra twice we went to Wadi Rum. It is in the south of Jordan near the Arabian desert. When you get to the Nat Park you transfer to 4 wheel drives. They take you through the dunes. It is quite a beautiful and very quiet place.

people say there was a war there.. i haven't noticed.

Two fascinating, surprising countries which I definitely want to visit again! I'll be back in Amman (Jordan) in Dec. 2009, but just for a stop on my way to Sri Lanka :-)

I met a British engineer in Dahab and we’ll be traveling to Jordan together with a handful of other European tourists.  Our supposed 3 hour ferry, for which we foreigners were required to purchase the more expensive first-class tickets, takes almost 15 hours to dock at Aquaba.  It is th…

A self-guided sightseeing trip through Jordan and Egypt