Typed up at: Hotel Vivek in Delhi, Tiger Safari Hotel in Sawai Madophur
Posted from: Hotel Vivek in Delhi
After getting out of the hospital and taking it easy for several more days, we finally got to see some Delhi sights. On our first day we were foiled in our attempt to see the Red Fort because [...]

Typed up at: Vivek Hotel in Delhi
Posted from: Vivek Hotel in Delhi
The first few days in Delhi seemed a bit overwhelming, but our time in east Africa and Cairo had prepared us well enough. If we’d flown straight into Delhi it would have been quite the shock. Traffic was everywhere where it fit, people honked [...]

Typed up at: Legend Hotel in Delhi, Vivek Hotel in Delhi
Posted from: Vivek Hotel in Delhi
Our last day in Amman was mostly taken up by traveling. We took a taxi to the City Station where Royal Jordanian lets you check in your luggage 5 hours before your flight. Then we spent some time at a [...]

Typed up at: Legend Hotel in Delhi
Posted from: Legend Hotel in Delhi
The receptionist at our hotel in Madaba pointed us to an intersection where the bus to Amman would go by. Some people at the intersection flagged down the right bus for us. About one dinar and an hour later we got off the bus [...]

Typed up at: Legend Hotel in Delhi
Posted from: Legend Hotel in Delhi
In Dana we hired Walid to drive us to Madaba, stopping at some of the major sites. Roger joined us for company and financial reasons. We left nice and early, headed north to Karak Castle. This was first built by the crusaders, and since [...]

Typed up at: Salome Hotel in Madaba, Sydney Hotel in Amman, Legend Hotel in Delhi
Posted from: Legend Hotel in Delhi
From Wadi Musa we took a cheap taxi to the Dana Tower Hotel. Walid was our driver and we’d be using his services again. The ride was nice and not very long. I wasn’t quite prepared [...]

Typed up: at Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Musa, Dana Tower Hotel in Dana, Friends Internet Cafe in Maddaba, Salome Hotel in Maddaba
Posted from: Syria Hotel in Amman
The bus ride to Wadi Musa was nice. It was a medium size bus, completely full with the luggage taking up one seat on the back row as [...]

Typed up: at Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Musa
Posted from: Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Musa
The bus from Aqaba to Wadi Rum doesn’t run on Friday, so we took a taxi instead. We’d booked 2 nights in the Sunset desert camp run by Mohammed Sabah Al-Zalabeh (07 7731 4688). He organized the taxi for us, [...]

Typed up: at Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Musa
Posted from: Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Musa
The first 2 nights in Aqaba we stayed at the Al Masra hotel in downtown. It was clean, the room was nice, and we slept on the nicest bed we’ve encountered our entire trip. It was very much a place [...]

Typed up: at Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Mousa
Posted from: Petra Gate Hotel in Wadi Mousa
On Sunday December 21, we woke up in Nuweiba, Egypt. After a good breakfast at our hotel, we took a cab to the bus station which seemed completely empty. There was one man sitting in his bus in the back, [...]