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My last day in the Service. 1000 start to the Dead Sea (Amman Tourist Beach apparently) today, where I'm going to defy the Sea's floating properties and drown me a few Frenchies - and do it silently of course!! Maria has been to the Israeli side of the Dead Sea where she covered herself in mud so she's looking forward to doing that again on the Jordanian side, not that it will be any different of course - mud, after all, is mud (unless you speak to my old geography teacher)!! I lied, the mud experience is totally different! In Israel you just wallow in the mud for free (yes, free in Israel) like a hippo/ American tourist at a fast food joint but in Jordan you have to cough up the princely sum of 3JD for a man to stick his hand in a pot and smear you in mud - talk about commercialism, they'll be charging to use the toilet next.Oh, I forgot, they do!!
We also perfectly timed our arival at the lowest point on Eart (-400m) with the end of Jordan's 17th Dead Sea ultra-marathon - great. The chaos was incredible, we were sat in traffic for eternity as the contra-flow headed straight for us, on both sdes of the road, without a traffic cone or road sign in sight.
It's incredible how this country has succumbed to mass tourism as no matter where we go Moses is still parting the sea for the hundreds and hundreds of groups who are flooding in annually....yuck. Not for us so hopefully Syria will be less, err...busy.
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