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Lady Gets from Amman to Damascus
Blog: A Lady in London - 16 June 2010
Don’t believe what they tell you about Syria. It’s much easier to drive there than people say it is. My boyfriend and I had heard a lot of things about driving from Amman to Damascus before we attempted the trip ourselves. But from buses to shared taxis, private cars to rental cars, there didn’t seem to be any one option that satisfied us on both price and efficiency.
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Sheik it
Blog: The Saturation Point of Bells - 27 May 2010
So, there I am in Wadi Rum. I have climbed down from the rock where I have watched the sun set behind huge monoliths of roll-topped sandstone, the spindly legs of camels throwing length shadows across the red sand.
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Roman cities of the Middle East
Blog: 501 Places - 30 April 2010
Wandering among the impressive ruins of the great Roman cities of Palmyra or Jerash it is hard to imagine that this was the south-eastern extremity of the Roman empire. It’s a world away from the windswept isolation of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, at the opposite end of Rome’s conquered lands. These cities are vast, [...]Roman cities of the Middle East is a post from: 501 Places
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Visiting Jordan with Kids. Yes, that Jordan
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 26 April 2010
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan may not be the first place you think of for a fun family vacation, but trust me, you should put it on your list. This small country in the Middle East is very family-friendly and has tons of incredible sites and activities on offer. Last year, Chet and I explored the [...]
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Braving Storms for the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jordan
Blog: MuseumChick - 8 April 2010
All this rain in Paris has me stuck inside. I don't usually brave rainstorms to get to museums except for this past January when I was in Jordan... It was perfect timing for a rain storm- when I was on top of the highest point in Amman, the Citadel mountain. Wind and heavy rain spraying from all sides so even an umbrella couldn't help. Oops! Then there went the umbrella! It didn't matter, I was soaked. So, I made a run for it... straight to the Jordan Archaeological Museum's steep staircase entrance, running past the Roman ruins of the Citadel....
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Wadi Rum, Jordan
Blog: Away We Go! - 30 March 2010
Our guide, Abu Mishal, waved down our bus from the side of the road as we entered Rum Village, a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He wore a grey pinstriped ankle-length caftan and the ubiquitous red and white checkered head scarf held in place by a crown of black rope. We tumbled out of the bus, bleary-eyed from our 4:30 a.m.
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Wadi Rum: Across Sand Dunes and Cultures
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 20 March 2010
The kid driving us through the desert is 16 years old, and he’s a veteran 5 year smoker. He has 10 brothers and sisters, from his dad’s two wives. Like most of the rest of the world, he likes Obama, but not George Bush. And he makes a mean cup of sweet Jordanian tea. Hussein is [...]
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Lady in Jerash
Blog: A Lady in London - 18 March 2010
Winding our way up the mountain from the Dead Sea to Amman, my boyfriend and I started to wonder if there is any flat land at all in Jordan. It seemed that every stretch of highway led up a stone-covered mountain or down one, and my ears wouldn't stop popping with the changes in altitude.
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Lady in Ma'in
Blog: A Lady in London - 18 March 2010
As my boyfriend and I turned off the road from Madaba to the Dead Sea, I had a sense of déjà vu. Winding down the steep switchbacks that took us from 100 meters above sea level to 260 meters below, I thought back to my last visit to the Evason Ma’in Resort in Jordan.
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Daily Travel Photo – Wadi Rum, Jordan
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 9 March 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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DÍA 17: PETRA parte I
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 7 March 2010
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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DÍA 18: PETRA parte II
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 7 March 2010
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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Petra: A great place to turn 38
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 5 March 2010
One of the best unanticipated benefits of extended travel is spending major milestones in special places: anniversaries, holidays, and of course, birthdays. We spent my birthday drinking rice wine with members of a Sapa hill tribe after a 24 km hike through the Vietnamese mountains. Six months later, we were walking through a candlelit gorge [...]
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4 Secrets to 4 World Wonders
Blog: Backpacker Bucks - 2 March 2010
Make the most of your once in a lifetime experience at these world wonders with 4 golden tips from a backpacker.
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Lightning Strikes Twice: Jean-Louis Burckhardt
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 21 February 2010
Within the space of two weeks I’ve seen two UNESCO World Heritage sites, both of which had been lost to the world for over 500 years until being “rediscovered”: the giant tombs of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and the exquisite carved sandstone city of Petra in southern Jordan. Both are amazing places but what is more amazing is that that both were stumbled upon by the same European. Jean-Louis Burckhardt, a Swiss explorer rediscovered Petra and Abu Simbel, in 1812 and 1813 respectively, while on a long quest to find the source of the Niger River.
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Madaba & the Dead Sea: Concrete, Mosaics, and Salt…lots and lots of Salt
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 20 February 2010
It’s ON. The Middle East portion of our trip, that is. Sure, our last destination, Turkey, has a strong Muslim culture, but it’s tempered by both European and Asian influences. Landing at the Amman airport, we saw men sneak off to the bathroom to change from Western suits into traditional thawb (an ankle-length white dress [...]
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Daily Travel Photo – Petra, Jordan
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 18 January 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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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.
