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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Back to the Dead Sea

 Back to the Dead SeaLeaving Wadi MusaAnother sunny morning. I’ve been awake for hours since the 4:30am prayer calls to be exact. We eat breakfast and check out of our hotel in Petra- it’s called the Rocky Mountain Hotel. The hotel has a beautiful view of the town of Wadi Musa and the rocky hills beyond.In the car we can’t get the portable wifi working on either of our phones …

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