Sunday, August 6, 2017

Jordan: the land of camels and '1 dinar' (a photo blog)

This past weekend, we were in Jordan.

It all started with some turban shopping in Aqaba, followed by a slumber party at the Jordanian Marine Science Center.

Aqaba, Jordan

Jordanian Marine Science Center

Hands down, my favorite thing in Aqaba is the coral reef - it was amazing!!!!! (...and I forgot my underwater camera to document it, of course)

We headed to Petra early in the morning on Friday. Obviously, took way too many photos, but here are the highlights:

'The Treasury' + Adina's fingers?

The best photo our group had gotten thus far

The Monastery
(no photos available of the 850 stairs to get here...
if we had stopped to take a photo, a behouin kid would certainly have charged us 1 dinar
"I make you good price")

Camel riding!!!!!! 

The beautiful Fe-rich sandstones

Stephan got this picture of Adina without her sunglasses.
Let's see if she reads the blog this far...

Riding in the back of a Toyota Hilux to the Bedhouin Camp

Steeeeeeeeeve!


Back of the truck chillin'

The camp at night

Lantern-lit


Above the camp


Then, the following day, we went to Wadi Rum.

To be honest, we expected this just to be a day of wandering around a hot desert wondering why we were there...

It turned out to be incredibly awesome!

First, we jumped into 4x4 trucks to race around the desert - stopping at cool sites every few minutes.


Stephan gazing out over the Wadi (dry riverbed) between two boulders

Our guide, Mohammed, ghost ridin' the whip

Group shot!

Our token police officer, who went along with us the whole trip

Adina and I are good at yoga?

Maybe we aren't that good at yoga... 

But meditating... we can do!

Titanic!

Smiling Steve

Photo credits all go to Stephan!

Now, we are back here in Eilat and I'm procrastinating on my Goldschmidt talk preparation. Hence why I wrote this blog.

Time to work I guess...







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