Petra and beyond

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I dont understand how Jordan can be so poor and yet have one of the strongest currencies in the world. the Jordinian Dinar, is almost worth as much as the British pound - and they loooove getting you to hand over more of them than you need to. there's no real structure to the public transport so getting around is quite a mission. for example, there might be a bus going from A to B, but it doesn't leave untill it's full of punters, and if there aren't enough punters then you might get told to wait till the next next day. so we hitched around quite a bit and always seemed to get picked up pretty quick, thats where travelling with a girl comes in handy I guess. you'll see some photos of Justine in this blog, she flew into Amman a few days ago and we're going to travel down into Egypt together. well thats the plan, she's pretty annoying and smells funny so I dont know how long I'll let her tag along for 😊 Baaaargh! we went to the Dead Sea, then down to the ancient city of Petra which was amazing, then into the Wadi Rum desert in the far south. very cool country, and nice people that do their best to help you out. no sign of woman though, it's definately a man's world here so everywhere we went Justine was getting gawked at.

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Photos

"just got to pop in here for a minute"
when I got across the border from Israel, I had to take a taxi to a nearby town and buddie decided to swing in a get his brake pads changed on the way - I couldn't believe it

fruit market in Amman
since I was here during the month of Rammadan, the only food you can buy during the day is fruit, and then when the sun goes down it's one big gong show as everyone crowds the restaurants and eats like crazy

Haji
our bus driver on the way to the Dead sea

Justine tests the water
wierdest feeling ever, when you walk out and keep walking untill all of a sudden you're just bobbing in the water. but whatever you do dont get it in your eyes or mouth or cuts because it's about 60 times saltier than normal sea water so it stings like crazy

Dead Sea mud
good for the skin they reckon, but I doubt it

carnage on the freeway
it rained lightly for about 5mins and we passed atleast 6 big crashes on our way up this hill.

I spy some woman
a very rare occurance in Jordan, and when you do, they're usually dressed up like these Ladies. apparently they even swim fully clothed with cloves and everything

the Treasury
this is where they filmed some of Indiana Jones, but I was more interested in keeping my eyes on that cammels huge set of teeth. shifty creatures those

Comments

[jorge]

buenas fotos
como siempre russ, muy buenas fotos... envidiable hermano de verdad cuidate

[Amalia]

Hey! The dead sea is looking beautiful! Hope your well and enjoying yourself! I just been a few days in Reykjavik! A great city and country! You should defently go there someday!I just recently spend some days with Malin and Lina! If you havent heard from them, both of them are well! I love your photos, I think your a excellent photographer! Have you ever thought of sending some of your pics to some kind of a travel paper? Keep on having fun! Love/Amalia

[MARK]

Loving the photos... thanks!

[Yathi]

Hey Russ, Cool trip man. Listen I got a question for you. I was told that once a person gets a Israeli Visa stamp on his Passport he would be denied entry into Middle Eastern Countries?? Is that true?? I mean u just entered Jordan, Im not sure if its a GCC country. I would love to visit Israel but not at the expense of getting kicked out of UAE!! Lemme know dude. Goodluck on the road. Try to visit The Empty Quarter while you are in the neighbourhood :) Me.

[Jonny]

Russ is a Girl, It was mean catchin up in Jerusalem, we are just hitting Dahab now sorry to mis ya. Have fun in India