Last Day in Jordan

Last Day in JordanJordan Museum We see our Czech friends (Ivanka and Martin) at breakfast. They are getting ready to catch their flight home. After breakfast we catch an Uber to the Jordan Museum. This museum is not part of the Jordan Pass. The museum is very interesting and worth the visit. I learn a lot and especially enjoy the section on origns of the written word. At one spot I have …

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Amman

  Amman Gallery Hotel Breakfast Breakfast at the Gallery Hotel is delicious. Our host serves a vegetable omlette, mutabel, hummus, vegetables, olives, pita, halaweh and of course the yummy mint tea. I chat with a couple from Czech Republic that we met at the Dead Sea…(the woman that had been kind enough to point out that I still had mud on my neck when John said I had cleaned …

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Four Countries from One Spot

Four Countries in One Day Goodbye Full Panorama of Archaeological Site Jarash Hotel At our apartment in Jerash we have breakfast in the dining room at 8am. The father serves us with all kinds of little dishes filled with homemade hummus, pita, olives, pickled pepper, cheese, a salad and yummy spiced pita bread. And of course there is that delicious tea. It almost seems like its a sweet camomile and mint …

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Jerash

 Jerash  On to Jerash I finally get the blog posted after breakfast and we leave the Ramada Resort on the Dead Sea and head to Jerash.We experience the worst traffic so far in Jordan while driving through the outskirts of Amman.Jerash is known as the best Roman site outside of Italy. It dates back 6,500 years.We walk through an area of tourist shops to get to Hadrian’s Gate. I am wearing …

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