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Talk about fun!  Cathy and I left Aqaba in the morning by taxi and were driven through the hills of southern Jordan into the desert known as Wadi Rum.  Wadi means desert, what the Rum alludes to I can only guess.  Anyway, our destination was the Wadi Rum village, where we would be meeting up with our bedouin guides for an all day excursion through the desert.  Now, the bedouin are known as nomads, but they are very up on technology, having cell phones, tv's, computers, etc...

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!!

The final day.  We woke up feeling a bit caught up with sleep, but still suffering from a lack of motivation.  One very full day remained – my flight departed at 1:40AM and Mark’s at 3:15AM – but we had been thoroughly overwhelmed by getting to know Jordan and somewhat anxious to return home to our families.   Over breakfast we decided we should return to Rum and do the hike we wanted to yesterday before it got too hot.  So we checked out after extracting...

On the second trip to Jordan, we headed back to Petra.  Mario had arranged a second taxi  (driven by a friend of his) to take all of us out for a few days.  So armed with backpacks and what nots, we piled into the two taxies for a very long drive on another very hot day.  Thank goodness for airconditioning. Along the way we came across some camel herders, so we stopped to stretch our legs  (and the Dutch have some pretty long ones).  There was one part...

This was my favorite segment of the trip, and I'm glad I made the decision to change it to an overnight stay. In hindsight, I would've wanted to stay at least another day. Wadi Rum is a protected desert area, and the landscape is scattered with amazing rock formations. The colors shift with the light, and certain parts of the desert is pink while others are white. I've lived mostly in Canada, SF and Asia so desert environments are not what I normally get to experience. It was a blast running ...

Yesterday we crossed into Jordan. While the day was painfully slow (waiting for immigration and the ferry across the Gulf of Aqaba), it does feel amazing to now be in a place with such history, in the Arabian peninsular, the very cradle of civilisation. Jordan saw the rise and fall of all the great empires, first the various Persian and Mesopotamian empires that fluctuated across Arabia, then the Greek empire, after Jordan was conquered by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE. When Alexand...

From Amsterdam to Amman and by bus to the south to Aqaba. Back my national plain from Aqaba to Amman and a flight to Amsterdam. Most beautifull sights are for me Wadi Rum desert and Petra. Stunning ! (in Progress!)

trip around some of the lesser-visited countries in the world. (photos only, for now). Syria - Lebanon - Jordan

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

My visit to Jordan in august 2008

Travelling from Cairo to Venice, through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.

Please note that links to external sites were correct when this blog was written.  However, they may no longer be valid.  Coming a close second (in terms of being a highlight of Jordan) was Wadi Rum of "Lawrence of Arabia" fame ... otherwise for the sheer mountains in the desert. Camped there overnight.   

After Petra the dessert. area Wadi Rum is probably the main tourist attraction of Jordan. With a good reason it is a unique landscape. Like so many other places in this area it also got a link to Lawrence of Arabia who actually named his memories after one of the many rock formations in the area.   Driving along the area you go past one rock formations more impressive than the other and you can see several smaller sand dunes spread across the place. We stop at a rock with so...

Just a day trip into the desert.

It’s been a year since I’ve been there .. and now I can say that Ï loved it … But to be honest with you .. I didn’t like when I was there. It was filthy and men are horrible,So one word of advice if you’re a female and going to these countries don’t go alone… I went with shoestring on a group tour and it was great. You do have the feeling that your kind of a sheep following the herd. The country is great and the sights are beautiful …