Hello eveyone.. I arrived in the seaside resort town of Aqaba a few days ago. The weather is fantastic here and the beach is beautiful.. across the straight of Aqaba is the city of Eilat, Israel, you can clearly see the buildings of the city, its amazing and that close. I never thought I would ever be this close to Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia in my life. Its really cool, but a little scary as well. I wandered down to the ruins of the old castle, they were OK, really just an old looking medieval type castle. The guy who took my ticket then took it upon himself to give me a personal tour. It was interesting and he did have a lot of information on the castle, however he addressed most of his info to
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