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.
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| Aqaba, Jordan |
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| 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:
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| 'The Treasury' + Adina's fingers? |
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| The best photo our group had gotten thus far |
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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") |
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| Camel riding!!!!!! |
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| The beautiful Fe-rich sandstones |
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Stephan got this picture of Adina without her sunglasses.
Let's see if she reads the blog this far... |
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| Riding in the back of a Toyota Hilux to the Bedhouin Camp |
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| Steeeeeeeeeve! |
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| Back of the truck chillin' |
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| The camp at night |
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| Lantern-lit |
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| 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.
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| Stephan gazing out over the Wadi (dry riverbed) between two boulders |
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| Our guide, Mohammed, ghost ridin' the whip |
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| Group shot! |
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| Our token police officer, who went along with us the whole trip |
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| Adina and I are good at yoga? |
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| Maybe we aren't that good at yoga... |
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| But meditating... we can do! |
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| Titanic! |
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| Smiling Steve |
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| 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.
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