Blogs from Petra, South, Jordan, Middle East - page 24

Hello All, I just finished a long day in Petra, Jordan which was so beautiful. We saw some temples and canyons and also successfully survived our first international adventure. We rode horses down and hiked back up which was really tiring but also fun. We are staying at really interesting kibutz now where the houses are made of straw and mud and there is hardly any waste. It is very ecological and also more socialist than most kibbutzim have become. Everyone is anxious to arrive and settle in a city and Jerusalem so that will be rewarding after a busy and challenging two weeks. We stayed in Beer Sheva earlier this week which wasn't the nicest of cities but it was fun because we had a night out bowling and getting ice cream etc. I want ... read more

Jordan, ah the hilly, rough, hot, rocky, desolate country which is kind of stuck amongst Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq. Poor old place has plenty to deal with along its borders. Jordan has many goats, deserts and some ruins. I spent the first night in Aqaba, in the Gulf of Aqaba, but got out of there ASAP as it's all a bit too westernised for my liking. The motorway scenery out of there was all a hilly, rough, hot, rocky not to mention desolate road with plenty of trucks heading to Amman from the port. Every third truck or so would honk their horn and give a wave. Nice guys but the sound of honking does wear off. So I was biking to the desert- Wadi Rum and its Bedouin villages and camps. Wadi ... read more

Well I got up early and hitched a perfectly timed ride to the Dahab bus stop for the daily bus to Nuwebia for the connecting two o'clock ferry, heading across the gulf of Aqaba to Jordan. Everything was running smoothly at my end. But somehow that two o'clock ferry didn’t manage to leave until 9 o'clock which meant I landed in Jordan at midnight and was through their shambolic customs routine by 2 am, but I did stop and have a cup of hibiscus tea with the customs officers. Anyway after a long day I found a cheap, by Jordanian standards ( AU only gets 0.66 of a JD) bed in the port town of Aqaba for a few hour sleep. The Next morning I was heading to Wadi Musa or the town of Moses ... read more

First, let me apologize yet again for the lack of updates. Its nice to know people have been asking around and are worried because they havent heard from me through this. Part of the reason is that the site experienced some technical difficulties and lost a critical data. About the only thing I lost were some photos from Turkey and all of them from Romania. I'll be able to replace those soon though. Now back to the show... So now I feel like im in the Middle East. Royal Jordanian Air was a first-rate airline that truly lives up to its royal name. Somewhere thousands of feet above Syria I was very pleased to find out while reading a Jordanian newspaper that Petra was just listed as one of the new modern wonders of the world. ... read more

Petra. Wow. Zweifellos die Touristenattraktion Nr. 1 in Jordanien und wahrscheinlich die besten 2000 Jahre alten Ruinen, die man so finden kann. Eigentlich will ich dazu nicht allzu viele Worte verlieren, da man Petra kaum in Worte fassen kann. Es ist einfach nur grossartig. Ich verweise an dieser Stelle mal auf den Wikipedia-Artikel darueber, da es hier im Hostel keinen Kartenleser gibt :) Petra Der an Petra angeschlossene Ort ist, logischwerweise sehr gut an Touris angepasst: Ergo wird man an jeder Ecke abgezockt. Da trifft es sich ganz gut, dass mir eh nicht gross nach Essen steht und ich mich den ganzen Tag, der lieben Gesundheit halber, nur von Brot und Wasser ernaehre, um nicht staendig nach einem Klo Aussschau halten zu muessen :) In Petra wurde uebrigens die Schlussszene von Indiana Jones III ... read more