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Paris:- Sunday, 24. October 1999:- There's nothing like starting a vacation at 05:00 - 5 am! - to get to the airport for your 10 o'clock flight and then to be asked if you'd like to volunteer for the afternoon flight on another carrier because Air France has overbooked!

Declines Beard Trim In Jordon

LindaThalm
2005-12-02 17:14:18

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to Dinars and bingo, bills and coins are in your hands. This is not likely to happen in Paris.

Ed's note: In Paris there are ATM's on some corners.

At a roadside viewpoint on the way to Kerak, a uniformed policeman politely asked us in Englishphoto: a wadi, 1 km deep if we'd mind taking his colleague in civilian clothes about 20 kilometers to the nearest police station. Our hitchhiker didn't speak much English but I think he was a cousin of James Bond.
A snake-like two-lane blacktop climbs out of the Wadi al-Mujib.

We wound our way up and down the stunning kilometre deep Wadi al-Mujib. Lorries from Iraq and Saudi Arabia were in first gear going up and down the steep, but wide and newly paved road.

At the imposing 12th century fortified citadel we roamed the windy site, admired the views to the valley 450 metres below and tried to imagine being there in 1188 AD when Saladin conquered the site.

Deciding to push on to Petra, we again needed to find 'petrol' before sunset. We did the last run into Petra in the dark - fortunately, my Arabic gets better at night and the signs to Petra in English got bigger as we approached this amazing geological site.

There weren't any rooms at the inn near the park's entrance and as this was a trip of adventure all the way, we had purposefully not made reservations.

A most helpful clerk at one of the large hotels called another hotel and sure enough, we got two nights in the Petra Plaza Hotel with a large room overlooking the pool and the spectacular views - just five kilometres out of town.

The next morning we were so glad to have started our visit to Petra by 7:15, as we really beat the coach loads of guided tour groups and most of the heat. It's two kilometres down to the 40-metre-high Treasury - the 'Khazneh.'

This monument was carved out of the stone ...