Even boarding the new, clean Royal Jordanian Airlines plane in Cairo, we started to notice a difference. We spoke briefly with a fellow passenger, a Jordanian woman relieved to be going home... "How long were you in Egypt?" Jacqueline asked... "Ten days....long enough to get homesick!" She added "Jordan is beautiful, you will LOVE it here!!"
After the unrelenting heat and dust of Egypt, Jordan's cooler climate was a relief... As far as climate & topography, Amman feels more like Southern California or New Mexico than it does your stereotypical Arab desert. Amman is a modern city with tree-lined boulevards, high-rises and large suburban neighborhoods reminiscent of Beverly Hills... the strong infrastucture and relative calm of this place is impressive considering the violence that surrounds it (I'll post more on that later, hopefully).
We spent two days exploring the ruins at Petra; that'll have to wait for a later post. For now though, at least I was able to upload some pictures to flickr. Here's a slideshow of our Bedouin campout in Wadi Rum:
You can see these pics larger and with captions on flickr.
Tomorrow we fly to Rome...
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Wow! It's so beautiful there! Hey what happened ?! Did they take away your tent while you were sleeping :(
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The slideshow is terrific. It really does look like New Mexico and reminds us of camping out in Chaco Canyon, NM during a lunar eclipse! Even the petroglyphs are there. We didn't have camels then. We had coyotes instead! Love, Mom & Dad D.
Thank you for the link to your guys' blog, Keith. You have me filled to the brim with travel envy :)
I've always wanted to visit the Middle East (and wanted to see a minaret - along with the Valley of the Kinds, of course).
You'll have a GREAT time in Italy, and if you find yourself in Tuscany, stay at the castle in Modanella - I highly recommend it!
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