Aqaba
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:24 pm
Sorry I couldn't get on yesterday but we lost all the phone connections. Anyways we made Aqaba at 7.00am Friday to thick mist and cold winds. It snowed heavily in the night over certain regions so we weren't sure whether the coaches could get through. I didn't want to take the chance of getting stuck on the mountains not in this weather. It was about 6 degrees but the wind factor made it zero, can you believe snow in the desert!!!!
If you owned a garden here you certainly wouldn't need to mow it because the whole area is covered in sand. Lots of camels but they give me the hump! Sorry couldn't resist. Jordan is a country bordered by Eilat, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aqaba is Jordan's only seaport, located on the southernmost tip of the country on the Red Sea. Aqaba provides the gateway to the Rose Red city of Petra and is one of the most spectacular attractions of the Middle East, abandoned and forgotten for centuries - well it was definitely abandoned and forgotten on Friday! The men wear dresses and the women are done up like a black mailing bag save for the two slits for their eyes. I boarded the bus at the alloted time and we got to the museum and fort, which amounted to several piles of rubble. It was bitter cold and everywhere we went was dirty and smelly. It then started to rain and I lost the will to live, hailed a taxi and high-tailed it back to the ship. I had a hot stone massage yesterday and it seems to have upset my back so I thought it was better to be cold and in pain on the ship then spend another 6 hours on the tour.
As Scarlet said 'tomorrow is another day'.
See you then
x
If you owned a garden here you certainly wouldn't need to mow it because the whole area is covered in sand. Lots of camels but they give me the hump! Sorry couldn't resist. Jordan is a country bordered by Eilat, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aqaba is Jordan's only seaport, located on the southernmost tip of the country on the Red Sea. Aqaba provides the gateway to the Rose Red city of Petra and is one of the most spectacular attractions of the Middle East, abandoned and forgotten for centuries - well it was definitely abandoned and forgotten on Friday! The men wear dresses and the women are done up like a black mailing bag save for the two slits for their eyes. I boarded the bus at the alloted time and we got to the museum and fort, which amounted to several piles of rubble. It was bitter cold and everywhere we went was dirty and smelly. It then started to rain and I lost the will to live, hailed a taxi and high-tailed it back to the ship. I had a hot stone massage yesterday and it seems to have upset my back so I thought it was better to be cold and in pain on the ship then spend another 6 hours on the tour.
As Scarlet said 'tomorrow is another day'.
See you then
x