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    • Päivä 2

      Floaters!

      10. syyskuuta 2023, Jordan ⋅ 🌙 31 °C

      We were v excited to get our first glimpse of the dead sea & arrive at our luxury hotel. We immediately put on our oldest swimmies & headed down to the lowest point on earth (420m below sea level) for a float.

      What a strange experience it's v hard to get your legs down, everything keeps bobbing up! It's an experience that's captured my imagination since childhood & floating with dead sea mud on my face as the sun went down over the hills of Israel was a happy contented moment. :)
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    • Päivä 4

      Totes Meer 💀

      27. syyskuuta 2023, Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

      Floating in real life, großartig! Leider soll man nur einmal täglich für 20 Minuten, deshalb mussten wir den halben Tag dann am Pool verbringen 😂🌴.
      Ein kleines Schlammbad gab es natürlich auch.

    • Day 90 - Dead Sea, Jordan

      7. lokakuuta 2023, Jordan ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

      Today we woke up and had to have our bags and had breakfast by 7.20am to get on the road towards the Dead Sea area.

      Our first stop along the way to the Dead Sea was to Karak Castle. Omar took us on the tour of the castle that was never taken by force and only surrendered by the Crusaders after being surrounded for two years with no one in or out. The Crusaders built this castle in the 12th Century.

      We had an hour and a half hour drive to the Dead Sea area from Karak Castle, which we had a booking at the Medical Centre, a four star hotel resort that features pools, a water slide and access to the Dead Sea with the mud.

      Once we arrived, we had lunch at the resort which consisted of a buffet meal. After lunch we got changed and headed straight down to the Dead Sea.
      Floating in the water was a very weird sensation! When you tried to stand you would just bob in the water and not go down unless you pushed against the water. We also tried the mud that is meant to do wonders for your skin, Katie tried a small amount, of course I went all in!
      After the Dead Sea we moved up to the resorts pool that had a water slide. We spent time with some of the group seeing who could go down the slide the fastest.

      We went back to the bus ready to start making our way to our next hotel in Madaba. On the way we stopped at Mt. Nebo, Mount Nebo is mentioned in the Bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land before his death. The landscape is home to stunning surroundings and one can look out at the Dead Sea, Bethlehem, and on a clear day, even Jerusalem (we could kind of make the outline of some buildings). The Memorial Church of Moses also rests at the summit that has intact mosaics from the original church on the floor and walls.

      We ventured onto the hotel in Madaba, we checked in and headed out for some dinner locally. We had a walk through the Main Street and main shopping mall (McDonalds was the most interesting thing there!)
      At 9pm I had booked a hair cut from a barber directly across the hotel for 3JED! This was going smooth until we talked about Turkey and how he off handily mentioned he had lived in Istanbul but in Jail… still working out if that was miss communicated english or serious!
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    • Päivä 19

      Bike ride and Dead Sea

      18. heinäkuuta 2017, Jordan ⋅ 🌙 31 °C

      After breakfast in the hotel restaurant, Abed picked us up at 8am and headed to Mt Nebo, only a few minutes from Madaba.

      Mt Nebo is, according to the Old Testament, where Moses saw the Promised Land before he died. On a clear day you can see Jericho and Jerusalem (that wasn't today), but we did see some more mosaics by early pilgrims which have been excavated and preserved.

      We met our cycling guide, Anas, in the nearby town at 9am and began our journey toward the Dead Sea. He was a member of the Jordanian Road Cycling team for 9 years so we were in good hands. The ride was 55km, and wasn't as easy as we'd been expecting, with many hilly sections and a bit of off-roading between the farms. Fortunately, we had a support vehicle follow us the whole way, so Oliver took advantage of getting a lift for a few kilometres of the steepest section.

      We arrived at Mukawir and went to a local family house for lunch. We had the traditional welcome coffee, followed by sweet black tea with fresh mint, then a delicious meal of chicken with rice and vegetables. Everthing we ate, except the rice, was grown by the family. This was regarded as a small family, with only 6 children - our host's brother has 24 children to 2 wives (Jordanian men can take up to 4 wives simultaneously, who each live in a separate house).

      After lunch we drove to the Dead Sea coast via the Mujib Nature Reserve, a green area on the map, but no green to be seen in real life. It was like a lunar landscape, barely a tree or bush in sight, but with spectacular mountain views and a steep, windy descent to the Dead Sea, 400m below sea level.

      All the "public" beaches are behind the hotels, so you have to pay to access them. Being so hot (it hit 43° later in the day), the hotel was fairly empty, save a few hardy souls swimming in the luke warm hotel pool. The beach was even more deserted, so we had our 10 minute float in the saline, oily waters, then caked a bit of (supposedly) therapeutic mud, before rinsing off in the warm outdoor shower and headed back to the air conditioned car quite hot and unrefreshed!

      We had a 3 hour drive to Petra for the night, but we extended that by an hour to take the scenic route via the Dana Biosphere.

      We arrived at Petra at 8pm, a quick shower to freshen up, and headed out for something to eat. It's a proper tourist town (the main street isn't called Tourism Street for nothing!), so everything is quite expensive, but we managed a shawarma (like yiros, but thinner bread and no salad), and a juice each for $40!
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    • Päivä 3

      Black mud at the lowest point on earth

      29. syyskuuta 2019, Jordan ⋅ 77 °F

      A full day at the hotel today. We made our way down to the Dead Sea where we, and everyone else, covered ourselves with black mud dredged up in buckets from the sea bed. People sit on the benches to dry and then wash off in the sea. Later we had a black mud wrap, saunas and a swim at the beautiful spa. Dinner at sunset on the hotel’s terrace.Lue lisää

    • Päivä 6

      Sonnenuntergang am Toten Meer

      7. huhtikuuta, Jordan ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      Leider nur von der Terrasse, da der Strand schon gesperrt wurde. Mit einem Mal ist die Sonne schnell versunken und beleuchtet den Himmel dann doch noch fleißig von hinter der Erdkrümmung.

    • Päivä 3

      Arriving in Jordan, Dead Sea

      29. syyskuuta 2019, Jordan ⋅ 73 °F

      We arrived late last night. What better way to recover from a long flight than 36 hours at a spa hotel on the Dead Sea. The Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea in Sweimeh was perfect and less than an hour cab ride from the Amman airport. A spacious room with a balcony/patio overlooking our private pool and sunsets over the Dead Sea. Israel on the horizon.Lue lisää

    • Päivä 5

      Am Ziel angekommen

      28. kesäkuuta 2022, Jordan ⋅ 🌙 33 °C

      Da unser Bus nicht befreit werden konnte, ging es mit einem Ersatzbus zurück zum Hotel. Rechtzeitig noch zum Abendessen und einem Absacker.

    • Päivä 2

      Amman und Jerash

      15. huhtikuuta 2022, Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Gut gestärkt durch ein opulentes Frühstück im Four Seasons starteten wir mit Abood um 9 Uhr. Zunächst stand das historische Stadtzentrum von Amman auf dem Programm. Eine Stadt mit 3 Mio. Einwohnern und damit leben nahezu ein Drittel der gesamten Bevölkerung von Jordanien in der Hauptstadt. Die weiße Stadt, weil nahezu alle Häuser aus Kalkstein gebaut sind. Schon im 8. Jahrtausend v. Chr. war hier eine Siedlung. Im 11. Jh. vor Chr. war es die Hauptstadt des Reichs der Ammoniter und hieß Rabbath-Ammon. Vormittags besuchten wir die Amman Zitadelle sowie das riesige Römische Theater, das 6.000 Menschen Platz bot. Ich bin alle drei Ränge hochgelaufen, eher hochgekraxelt, weil die Stufen so schmal und hoch waren. Mittags ging es weiter nach Norden zur Stadt Jerash. Dort befindet sich nicht nur ein Römisches Theater, sondern eine weitläufige, 63 v. Chr. von Pompejus erbaute römische Stadt. Am Eingang der Ausgrabungen befindet sich der mächtige Triumphbogen, erbaut 129 n. Chr. von Kaiser Hadrian. Beeindruckend fand ich die Säulen/ Kollonaden flankierte Prachtstraße Cardo Maximus, die in das ovalförmige Forum mündete. Natürlich gab es einen Zeustempel, auch seine Tochter Thalia einen eigenen Tempel, die Beschützerin der Theaterleute. Abends bummelten wir noch durch den Souk.Lue lisää

    • Päivä 3

      Fahrt zum Toten Meer

      16. huhtikuuta 2022, Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

      Wir fahren durch den Großen Afrikanischen Grabenbruch, der vom Libanon bis Mosambik reicht, zum Toten Meer. Einen Abstecher haben wir in Bethanien (Bibel) gemacht. Ein lauschiger Weg führte uns zu der Stelle des Jordans, an der Johannes der Täufer Jesus getauft haben soll. Auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite befindet sich wenige Meter entfernt Palästina. Die Quelle des Jordans befindet sich im Anti-Libanon Gebirge, d.h. zwischen Libanon und Syrien. Er mündet im Toten Meer und führt aufgrund der vielen Stauseen nur noch wenig Wasser. Mit diesem Wasser möchte niemand mehr getauft werden. Rund um die Heilige Taufstätte sind viele Kirchen und Moscheen gebaut worden.
      Da der Jordan nur noch wenig Wasser in das Tote Meer bring und zudem die Sonne ihr Übriges tut, trocknet der Binnensee, d.h. das Tote Meer, langsam aus. Es bildet den tiefsten Punkt der Erde: ca. 400 m unter dem Meeresspiegel. Unser Hotel, das Kempinski erinnert mich vom Baustil an das Anassas auf Zypern. Einzelne Appartementblöcke sind in den Hang gebaut. Sehr, sehr schön. Es hat viele unterschiedliche Pools und ganz unten gibt es einen Privatstrand am Toten Meer. Na ja, eigentlich sieht es aus wie fest-getrampeltes Ackerland. In einer großen Amphore befindet sich der schwarze, salzhaltige Schlamm, mit dem man sich einreibt. Wohlgemerkt man, nicht ich.
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