Jordan Post

Floating on the Dead Sea

The adventure begins again. I have met my friend Karen in Jordan and we will be spending the next three weeks together travelling around Jordan and Israel.

Well we have had an action packed four days so far. We flew into Amman and based ourselves there for a few days.

We got a driver with three other people at our hotel/hostel and headed out to the North. We went to Umm Qais, I am excited I have learned a new word for scrabble with Qais, you can use places now right? It is at the tip of the country and boarders Syria, Israel and Palestine, while looking at the Sea of Galilee we were able to note all of these places. Don’t worry we did not see any bloodshed.

We went to Jerash, wow it is the biggest Roman Ruin site I have seen. Massive and in amazing shape. We walked around Amman for a day or took a cab when it got too hot, only a dollar a trip. The meter starts at 25 cents, not like Peterborough where it starts at $4. The people are extremely friendly. They have been taught the word welcome and everyone says it to us. “Welcome, welcome, welcome to Jordan.” It is lovely. They could have learned worse like the one guy on the street who said “give me sex” as we walked by. This preconceived notion about Westerns.

Today we are at the Dead Sea. We splurged and are at The Marriott, yep four days in and we are out of backpacker mode and in Posh Ville. There are only high end options if you want to stay at the Dead Sea so we went for it. $165 for the room, our last place was about $30 a night. So I type this in a nice white bath robe with my Marriott slippers on, looking at the white duvets. Back to reality tomorrow night…

The Dead Sea was so cool, not cool temperature wise it was 42 degrees today and the water was hot, hot, hot. We did the touristy thing to do while here we read a book while floating in the Dead Sea, covered ourselves in mud for the spa experience and chilled out in an infinity pool looking over the sea. It is a real mix of people here, very wealthy, us backpackers, are very few. But the Muslim women, poor women, it was 42 degrees and they are in their “swim suits” of black track suits with hoods or blue spandex suits with hoods that make them look like Smurfs, I am sorry that is rude, but it gives you the visual and the heat, my god.

There are a ton of photos, check them out using the slide show feature and we can see where they are and the comments, sorry there are tons, but we have done so much in such a little time.

Click on the following link for photos from Umm Quai, Jerash, Amman and the Dead Sea in Jordan.

Click on this link for photos from the Jordan, there are tons, have a look