My Christmas is in Ruins
I hope everyone is having a merry Xmas. I spent Xmas eve night in an Irish pub in Wadi Musa, Jordan with a group of Aussies and Brits. The hotel I’m staying at had a monstrous buffet, which they do every night, but this one had Bedouin BBQ chicken. Yesterday and today we spent walking through the ancient Nabataean ruins of Petra, Jordan. It’s the most incredible place I’ve seen yet. It’s a massive set of canyons with incredible Nabataean and Roman ruins carved into the sandstone. It took two days just to see the basics of the canyons. The weather sucked so the 300 pictures don’t quite capture the natural colors and patterns in the canyon walls. I’ll send a few when I’m not on a dial-up, (dial up! [titter]). The Jordanians are wonderful people, not like those horrible Egyptians. I get the "welcome to Jordan" all day long. Tomorrow we take a 4×4 out into the desert in Wadi Rum and have a feast and spend the night with the Bedouin there. I’ve heard the food is amazing. Then another day of ruins and sights in Jordan before heading to Amman to try and get a visa into Syria, which is one of the most popular places to go - the place is cheap, the sights are endless and the people are very nice without the hassle of Egypt. The visa is going to be a pain in the arse I hear but hopefully I can make it happen. If not then I’ll try Iran. I’m travelling with an Aussi who spent a month in Yemen studying Arabic at the Language Institute and I think I’m going to end up doing the same. It’s cheap, very good one-on-one instruction, and much safer than the political situation suggests.
Kisses,
عذم بابا
‘athm baba
(Bonedaddy)
