Amman to Aqaba along the Desert Highway

We had our welcome meeting for our Intrepid Jordan 🇯🇴 trip at 6pm yesterday. Our guide, Sofyan, explained what will be happening over the next week. There are just 9 of us on the tour - 4 couples (us, 2 from the US, and 1 from Australia) plus 1 single lady from Australia. It's strange because when we've done these trips before, we've often been the only couple! Our fellow travellers seem like a good bunch.

By the way, the British girl we met the other day, and the mysterious Darren, are not on our tour! 😂

After the meeting, a few of the group went downtown for dinner. We didn't bother as we'd had lunch.

We left the hotel at 8am for the five-hour minibus 🚐 journey. We travelled along the Desert Highway which is a bit of a misnomer. In the south of the country, the land is mainly desert 🏜 , but in the north, it's largely fertile, agricultural ground - or it would be if there wasn't such a chronic shortage of water for irrigation! Jordan uses what water it does have very carefully and concentrates its fruit and vegetable production in one small area in the North of the country.

We stopped halfway for a coffee ☕ and toilet 🚻 break. Inevitably, there was a gift shop where we stopped! 😀 I admired all the incredible mosaics - maybe one day I'll be able to produce something similar! 😂Read more