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8 November 2004
With family in Singapore Yesterday was spent with family, including my aunt. And I didn’t hear from Pat and Fiona, meaning that they must have got on their standby flight to Auckland. As for me, I fly out tonight. I had the day to kill. Mum and step-dad took me to East Coast beach for […]
6 November 2004
Pat and Fiona were meant to try to get back to Auckland on standby tonight but they changed their mind. They decided they would try to get on tomorrow night, whereas I’d try get on the night after that. So, we had time to just chill today. I went to Hougang Mall for shopping with […]
5 November 2004
Kim and I managed to wake up at 0900 despite the unfavourable time change. We spent the day shopping at a couple of IT malls in Singapore and managed to get ourselves a Palm Pilot each. Normally, tech products in Singapore are cheaper than in New Zealand but with the exchange rate at present, it […]
28 October 2004
Above: Our camp at Jabal Rum in the morning. We had breakfast at our Jabal Rum camp around 0700. It was the usual Middle Eastern breakfast which I love, consisting of tomato, cucumber and cheeses. The hot pita bread was a bonus! After breakfast, we made our way to Aqaba, adopting two hitchhikers, one […]
27 October 2004
Setting off Today we head to Wadi Rum for a night in the desert, something Fiona particularly wanted to experience. We had absolutely no hurry today and took breakfast at a leisurely pace at 0900. Kim’s tummy played up this morning while mine yesterday afternoon. And Pat’s yesterday morning. On the other hand, Fiona had […]
26 October 2004
The Siq We woke at 0545 for breakfast at 0630, in preparation for our big day at Petra, the Rose Red City. We were at the visitor centre at 0730 to commence our walk through the Siq to Petra. Before we entered the Siq, Pat and Fiona said this wasn’t anything like what they had […]
25 October 2004
Above: Petra by Night. Lanterns in front of the Treasury (the pillars of which are seen in the background). Leaving Madaba We paid and checked-out from the Black Iris Hotel in Madaba. We had a nice chat to the owners. Their son studies in Switzerland (presumably in hotel management) and has an Indonesian Chinese girlfriend. […]
24 October 2004
Madaba Today, we have a road trip covering various sites in the north-west of Jordan: shifting our base to Madaba, Mt Nebo, the Baptismal site of Jesus, and a dip in the Dead Sea. It seems a bit silly to change hotel to Madaba which is only less than an hour out of Amman. Sometimes […]
23 October 2004
Sightseeing I decided that we would have a relaxed start after all the moving around we’ve had recently. But we still woke reasonably early for breakfast at 0730. We were approached by drivers outside the hotel for trips for tomorrow and day after. We got some good information about pricing to help with our decision-making […]
22 October 2004
Above: Making a stop near the border. Today, all of four of us will venture from Syria into a new country, Jordan. We took a taxi to Baramke station to try find a service taxi to Amman. But we didn’t get very far because, en route, the taxi driver found us a service taxi that […]