Experience the journey that is Jordan
Posted in Experience the Journey on Nov 26th, 2008
Whether in Wadi Rum or in Petra, camel rides can be a fun part of one’s travel experience in Jordan – provided you don’t break your neck mounting the monstrous beast.
Below is a pleasant and short video from the WorldNomad’s blog aptly entitled ‘Travel Safety Tip – Riding a camel!‘:
Too bad the gang I traveled [...]
Posted in Day 6 - Wadi Rum & Aqaba, Ecotourism on Oct 24th, 2008
The first day started off with a three hour camel ride in Lawrence’s old stomping grounds, Wadi Rum. Yes, camel riding is the iconic Middle Eastern experience (not to mention Lawrence’s preferred method of transportation) but believe you me, we could have lived without the angry, farting camels and all the leg and back pain associated with being perched atop them for three hours.
Posted in Dean's blog on Sep 29th, 2008
“… the award-winning sustainable tourism and eco-tourism projects, which are helping us to both protect and promote the things that are most precious to us …
… From Yarmouk in the north to the southern mountains of Aqaba, these parks will create wildlife corridors and sanctuaries for endangered plants. They’ll be looked after by local communities, [...]
Posted in Ecotourism, Experience the Journey on Sep 17th, 2008
Wadi Rum speaks a beauty that is universally understood – as demonstrated in this at SobreTurismo, a Spanish language travel blog whose title in English simply reads “Jordan: The desert of Wadi Rum.”
Berenice Lomont, the author of the article, expresses the universality of Wadi Rum’s “vast and echoing and god-like” magic in a sentiment coined [...]
Posted in Ecotourism on Aug 25th, 2008
Described as ‘Vast and echoing and god-like’ by T.E. Lawrence in his famed 7 Pillars of Wisdom, rarely does a visitor leave unawed and uninspired by this moonscape. In fact the only regret of this writer is that he did not have enough time to spend the night in this “magically haunted” moonscape – vowing [...]
Posted in Day 6 - Wadi Rum & Aqaba, Ecotourism on Aug 21st, 2008
dj.tigersprout of Aminus3.com shares with us this gorgeous picture as one of many he’s taken of the moonscape of Wadi Rum … describing the grandeur that inspired the likes of T.E. Lawrence, when DJ writes:
i happily leave you with another near monochromatic ochre desert shot i dug up the other night — it never made [...]
Posted in Experience the Journey on May 7th, 2008
Yeah I know what you’re thinking, my friend went to Jordan and all I got was a URL to his stinking Jordan tourism blog. All the more reason to go there yourself … but until then … here are 3 more persons blogging about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, posting their experiences and sharing their photos so the rest of us can stew in our offices and live vicariously through their journeys:
Posted in Day 6 - Wadi Rum & Aqaba, Dean's blog on Nov 12th, 2007
Described as ‘Vast and echoing and god-like’ by T.E. Lawrence in his famed 7 Pillars of Wisdom, rarely does a visitor leave unawed and uninspired by this moonscape. In fact the only regret of this writer is that he did not have enough time to spend the night in this “magically haunted [2]” moonscape – vowing to come back one day with his family to take a 2 day camel caravan to fully drink in its arid beauty.
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