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DÍA 18: PETRA parte II
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 19 December 2009
Ese día madrugué tanto que cuando sonó el despertador, por primera vez en todo el viaje no sabía dónde estaba. Muy cansada, dormida y desorientada, me fui a desayunar y a las 7 nos llevaron hacia el centro de visitantes para visitar Petra. Solo teníamos hasta la una del mediodía, ya que a esa hora habíamos quedado con Patrícia para compartir un taxi de vuelta a Aqaba.
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DÍA 17: PETRA parte I
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 16 December 2009
Ese día nos levantamos muy pronto porque teníamos por delante una jornada muy larga. Íbamos a Petra (Jordania) cruzando por carretera tres fronteras: Egipto, Israel y Jordania. No sabíamos cómo iba ir la cosa y, aunque teníamos el visado multientrada, al menos yo seguía con la duda de si realmente nos serviría de algo. El taxista no vino a la hora indicada, supuestamente por problemas con su coche y rápidamente el hotel mandó llamar a uno nuevo. Con eso salimos 45 minutos más tarde de lo previsto. Queríamos llegar pronto a las fronteras para evitarnos colas.
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Aqaba to Amman. Dubai to Manchester.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 8 December 2009
Having travelled four times on the boring and tedious Desert Highway, we decided to drive from Aqaba to Amman on the less used Wadi Araba Road. This road follows the boarder with Israel to the Dead Sea. The road cuts through the sandy desert, with mountains on both sides. The route was very interesting, Mirroring the road on the other side of the boarder. The green areas of Kibbutz's were easy to spot. The road was also VERY fast, in less than two hours we were back at the Dead Sea.
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Umm Ar-Rasas, Karak, Aqaba.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 8 December 2009
Today we had a 'free' day! No hotel was booked, so we could go where we pleased? well---once we had dropped off Rebecca at the airport.Getting from the Dead Sea to the Airport was easy, the road we used was new and not charted on the map. It cut straight up the mountain from the low Dead Sea to the Madaba Plateau. Passing the Dead Sea Panoramic Complex. This new building houses a Restaurant and Museum dedicated to the Dead Sea. The museum is run by the RSCN. there is a magnificent view of the dead sea from the viewing deck.
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Bethany Beyond The Jordan. Wadi Mujib.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 30 November 2009
The Mujib Chalets were located across the road from the entrance to the Wadi Mujib Nature Reserve.
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Castles, Mosaic Maps and The Dead Sea. The Jordan Experience Continues
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 30 November 2009
The road out of the town of Wadi Musa soon joins The Kings Highway, this is a long meandering road that runs through Jordan. We very soon arrived at our first stop, Shobak Castle. Shobak Castle is another castle in the great chain of Crusader fortresses which stretches across Jordan.
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Look Upon This Picture, And On This...
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 November 2009
When is a famous historic building not a famous historic building? When it's a scale model, of course.In last week's Canberra post I talked about our visit to Cockington Green Gardens, a tourist attraction filled with miniature replicas of English village settings. However, it also has an international section.
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Entering Petra From Israel
Blog: World Travel Blog - 19 November 2009
The Ruins of the Nabatean civilization reached a world famous status after appearing in the Indiana Jones Movie The last crusader and also recently voted one of the new seven wonders of the world. Located in the Arabah desert in southern Jordan this ancient city is an impressive archeological achievement with buildings like the Treasury [...]
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Petra by Night, and better by Day.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 9 November 2009
Today we were travelling from Ajloun to Petra. The astute reader of this blog will see from the unfolding itinerary that we zigzagged across Jordan in an almost random fashion. The reason for this was the need to pick up and drop off a certain visitor from Dubai.
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Lady in Petra
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
My guidebook's first line about Petra said that whenever you hear the word Petra, you immediately think of the Nabateans. I don't know about other people, but whenever I think of Petra, I immediately think of Indiana Jones.
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Jordan. Jerash & Umm Qais.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 1 November 2009
Today we needed would need the sustenance provided by the simple breakfast of Labneh (a thick cheese like yoghurt) Fig jam, Cheese, Tomatoes, Olives and Halva served by the Chef at the Ajloun Woodland Reserve. The restaurant in the reserve is on the roof top of the visitors centre, it is large with seating for over 80, with just the two of us sitting in it we felt rather lonely!
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Lady at the Dead Sea
Blog: A Lady in London - 30 October 2009
After our epic adventure in Petra, my boyfriend and I needed some time to relax. We headed out of Wadi Musa in the afternoon and drove back up the King's Highway to the town of Tafila. From there we headed out to the Dead Sea on one of the most beautiful roads in the country.
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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Self Drive Holiday. October 2009. Manchester to Ajloun.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 30 October 2009
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.Travelling always gives me a reason to learn more about the places I visit. Prior to researching this holiday, my knowledge of Jordan was sketchy. I knew it was in the Middle East ! and had heard of King Hussein of Jordan. I also knew that Petra was in Jordan. As usual, there is so much that you don’t know, and so much to learn.Jordan is a relatively small country, it is just a little larger than Portugal with a population of under 6 Million.We flew from Manchester to Amman via Dubai, arriving in Amman early in the morning.
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Lady in Jordan
Blog: A Lady in London - 22 October 2009
My trip to Jordan was a long time in coming. Originally booked for last August, it was then moved to April, after which it was finally re-booked for last weekend. It was as if I could see the promised land and yet I kept having to wander through other parts of the world until I could arrive. I think that once happened to some other people in Jordan too.
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Day 13, Our Final Day: Petra, One of the New Seven Wonders of the World
Blog: Flying Coach - 28 September 2009
The final day of our trip was also the finest. Sara and I awoke before the sunrise in a small town just outside of one of the recently named New Seven Wonders of the World: Petra. We were in Wadi Musa, Jordan, staying at a hotel recommended by our taxi driver from the night before. The [...]
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Day 12, The Bomb Scare at the Israeli Border
Blog: Flying Coach - 20 September 2009
As Sara and I sat on a curb just inside the Israeli border waiting for our new friends to make it through their interrogation by the border guards, the sirens at the checkpoint suddenly sounded, a female voice barked out commands over the loudspeaker in Hebrew, the border gate slammed shut and a man ran [...]
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Travel Video – Bedouins in Wadi Rum, Jordan
Blog: GoBackpacking - 5 September 2009
In this video, Captain John spends a night with Bedouins in Wadi Rum as he continues his month long tour of Jordan. For me, Jordan follows Egypt as the Middle Eastern country I’m most excited to check out. Late last year, I just couldn’t bring myself to spend the holidays there, so I rushed through Egypt, [...]Your Free Subscriber
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Jordan: Not Just More of the Same
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 22 August 2009
First Impressions: Jordan 1. Clean 2. Modern 3. Organized We only had a couple of days in Jordan and, coming from Egypt, I was expecting more of the same. On the surface the countries are similar: predominately Muslim, both with vocal minority groups; landscape dominated be desert and otherwise non-arable land; Jordan is a monarchy and, with the same [...]
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Petra, Jordan
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 12 August 2009
When we told people that the Middle East was on our agenda, the suggestion that came again and again was Petra, and it certainly lived up to the hype.
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Enchanting spots: Petra, Jordan
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 20 July 2009
The ancient city of Petra, located deep in the mountains of southern Jordan, is an awe-inspiring monument to mankind’s ingenuity and craftmanship. The city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, is situated in a basin and was carved out of the rose-red stone of the surrounding [...]
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Day 4 - Boom Boom Pow in Aqaba
Blog: Hello, Pineapple? - 9 July 2009
The roof top of The Petra Hotel in Aqaba, Jordan features a unique view. To the south, Saudi Arabia, to the west and across the Red Sea, the Egyptian Sinai region, and, to the north, Israel. In other words, a lot of news making geography. For CAD$2/night we mingled and slept on the roof of the old hotel, across the road from what was declared to be the best nuts in the Middle East. That is, there was a line up of bulk food stores that only featured nuts in baskets. Most famous were the BBQ'd cashew nuts. They were VERY good, and lived up to the reputation.
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Day 7: Last Day in Jordan
Blog: A'Broad in Amman - 12 June 2009
The next morning, we took the drive from one tourist city to another, from Petra to the Dead Sea, only stopping by the Jordan river and Baptism site along the way.The Baptism site was where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist around the age of 30. My favorite part of the site, however, [...]
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Day 6: 800 Steps of Sightseeing
Blog: A'Broad in Amman - 12 June 2009
The next couple days marked a significant change in our press trip, where we became journalists who looked and felt rather than took notes. There were no more briefings or official meetings. This was our chance to get to now the country for ourselves, not through the eyes of officials or their official stance on [...]
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Day 5: Ancient Adventures
Blog: A'Broad in Amman - 4 June 2009
Our 5th day of adventure began with a breakfast meeting with Fr. Nabil D. Haddad, the executive director of the Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center. He spoke about Jordan, praising it as a country conducive to peaceful religious coexistence, which is what his organization promotes. He fears that many countries and religions have incorrect and [...]
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Day 4: Foundations, Finance, and Films
Blog: A'Broad in Amman - 4 June 2009
I was quite excited for Day 4 to begin as we were visiting one of the people I had originally requested to see. The rest of the day, however, was quite daunting as it was our first full day of briefings without much tourism. We started the day at the Ministry of Environment, speaking to Khaled [...]
