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Photo Friday #11: Jordan

September 3, 2010 Jordan

As the King’s Highway in Jordan winds its way back out of Wadi Mujib, the two-laned highway is, on some stretches, wide enough for roadside cafes (and I use the word ‘cafe’ loosely) and souvenir stalls to set up shop. It must be lonely work – only one other car passed the entire time we [...]

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Middle East Summary

August 15, 2010 Egypt

Days gone: 46* Average cost per day: $56.96 AUD (includes an 8 day tour in Egypt) Most memorable moment: Watching the night sky above Wadi Rum desert where it seemed the world was full of stars, and we saw five of them shooting across the sky. Moment I want to forget: Fronting up at the [...]

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Eating: Middle East

August 10, 2010 Destinations

Not that I’m dwelling on it, but it’s relevant for any post about food or eating: after we got sick in Syria, it lingered. Especially around Alicia, who didn’t take antibiotics. So the Middle East turned out not to be the culinary adventure we were hoping for. While breakfast was included in pretty much all [...]

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Video: Wadi Rum

July 20, 2010 Jordan

Wadi Rum from Megan on Vimeo. During our time in Jordan, we spent the night in the desert park of Wadi Rum with only a Bedouin guide or two and the stars for company. It was pricey, but well worth it. Because it was the off-season, we basically had 300 square kilometres of desert to [...]

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Blowing the budget in Jordan

July 17, 2010 Destinations

We hadn’t even reached Wadi Rum yet when I started to get worried. Actually, in all honesty I was probably worried when we arrived in Amman, but we hadn’t spent anything on entry fees yet. Having become over-confident by the tiny amount of money we spent over ten days in Syria, we weren’t expecting Jordan [...]

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Images from Wadi Rum

July 15, 2010 Destinations

  On my RTW trip during the summer of 2010, I met my friend Alicia in Istanbul and we spent the next 46 days travelling overland through Turkey, Syria and Jordan before I headed to Egypt solo to join up with a quick organised tour through upper Egypt. Read more about this leg of my [...]

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Lost in a high place

July 15, 2010 Destinations

‘Alicia!’ I yelled. My voice bounced around the canyon walls but the overwhelming silence quickly devoured the echo. There was no reply. ‘Alicia!’ I yelled again. But again there was no response, not even from the Bedouin I knew made the cliffs above and below me their home. I stood in front of an empty [...]

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