Madaba Travel Blogs

The second day in Jordan! The weather was perfect, sunny and clear blue sky. We arrange a day excursion from Issa - taxi driver coordinator from Mariam Hotel. We had a huge 6 seats van for just 3 of us, with the driver. I sat in front, and within the first 30 min of the trip, Amin - our driver has…

And we’re off.  A good start as I arranged for an unusual flight plan to reach Amman and team up with Mark (rendezvousing with me from Dubai).  There was a direct flight from JFK to Amman departing 11:30P Wednesday night, but to get there in time I bought a ticket to LaGuardia and c…

[ photos to follow at a later through the kindness of Johanna and Thu ] And then there were two.  Stevie and Thu to be precise.  Breakfast at the Madaba Hotel without our pal Kylie who's left earlier than us to crack on to the Dead Sea.  She's concerned about not making it there and…

  ...and that 'excursion' turned out to be just as bad! So, I've said it, that saves me from doing another rant. Let's just focus on the fun thing of travelling: the actual travelling part! Today we only had one travel companion, a Japanese guy. We were also travelling by luxury car, whi…

After missing our flight from Bahrain yesterday we needed to make the most of our time in Jordan.  So it's all about cramming tons of events into one day now...time is not on our side. The plane landed at 930, we stepped out onto the walkway and it was cold!  I swear that the earth is en…

We hired a car to take us from Madaba to Petra, stopping along the way at the Dead Sea and Jesus' baptism site.  In the Dead Sea where one can float in the 30+% salt water and read the daily news at the same time.  The muddy base was pretty eecky and slimy.  Now for the lowlight …

Nadie se movió de la cama hasta bien pasadas las ocho y media de la mañana, cuando una vez más, el impasible despertador sonó para dar comienzo al Maratón de Jordania, que nos llevaría por los principales lugares del país árabe durante los próximos días. Quizá estábamos en la mejor habi…

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, human... we live, we eat, we drink!!!!:)))))

My visit to Jordan in august 2008

The best damn Jordan travel blog. 5 Friends, 3 weeks studying dialect in Amman and 9 days on the road out on the countryside. Coming soon: Wadi Rum, Aqaba, Madaba

Madaba is a city of 60.000 people. It is most famous of it's Greek Ortodox Saint Georges church. Not only for the church itself. In the church is a mosiac map of Jordan. First nobody knew it was there, which perhaps was a good thing because it probably would be destroyed in the Middle Ages. By…

The highlights of Jordan

Took bus from 7th circle - 30 minsman walked us to 1st church and let in free - mosaicsWent to Museum for local price 250fils - mosaicsWent to Church with map mosaic for 1JDWalk past Church and to museumBus home to AmmanDVDs, burger, walked 10kms homeRami left us again, net didnt workTook bus, taxi…

a couple of days in each country.