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Day 6 Thursday 3rd June 2010, Wadi Rum-Aqaba.
'El dinero se acaba en Aqaba'
I got up to watch the Sun rise, a rather disappointing experience, nothing like watching it rise out of the sea in Indonesia. The best bit was climbing the rocks behind our tents to get into position to watch it, whilst still half asleep and wearing flip flops!
After this disappointment I went back to bed for an hour, before everyone got up for breakfast. It's the first time I have houmous for breakfast, it was nice though. Once we were all ready but not before Obeid had called a hotel in Aqaba to reserve rooms for us, did we go back to the visitors centre to collect our car and head down to Aqaba. Turns out it's quite a big city with a big port. The hotel is nice, clean and big, with of all things a lift!
Once we dropped our bags off we went off to the Red Sea. After a lot of toing and froing and one beach resort trying to charge us 35 dinars (£38) each to get into 'their' beach (with a complimentary soft drink of course), we ended up in the royal diving centre. Only 15 Dinars each to get in and 8 Dinars on top to rent snorkel gear! The beach was pretty average but the coral was amazing, just like being back in Indonesia again. Margot was totally overwhelmed by what she saw!
After this we paid a visit to a public beach to witness the enslavement of the Jordanian women, being forced by their men folk and their culture to go to the beach in full veil and headscarf attire and all black too! All because the Arabic men can't be trusted to control themselves around women, how ridiculous! The beach was very average again and so we went back to the hotel and after a rest it was off to eat.
Oh my God fish barbeque and it turns out it was Sea Bream how delicious just like in Thailand, almost! After dinner we had a walk by the beach and found that it was as busy at night as it is in the day. Full of people moon-bathing and swimming, quite odd! Walking down the promenade with the girls was a bit like walking down a catwalk with all the men ogling at them!
Once thoroughly bored we headed back into town to browse some shops and Margot got conned by a very clever guy who wrote her name inside a bottle of sand and then made it look like coincidence. What a con man, but she was happy enough to buy it! We had a quick drink in Ali Baba restaurant, luckily I had the right pants on for this! I had a laughing attack and then it was off to bed!
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