I love Jordan! Maybe this is my favorite middle eastern country so far but at least it's a close tie for first with Oman!
Upon arrival into Jordan we got our rental car and we drove straight to Jeresh. Jeresh is this ancient city about 30km north of Amman. We were coming from the airport so it was a bit further. We walked around these ancient ruins which was very interesting! Lovely history. After that we drove back to Amman (crazy drivers!). I honestly cannot believe that I've been surviving driving here. It's definently something that you have to acquire and I'm so glad this isn't my first rodeo of driving a manual car in heaps of traffic in a foreign country!!
We checked into our free night hotel holiday inn and took a mini siesta before we were picked up by Sanna's law school friend for dinner. Him and his wife treated us to this great restaurant called levant. Actually the types of food that we've been eating so much of in the Middle East is called levantese. Interesting fact!
On the second day we got our Turkish bath which I have a previous post on!
After the bath we drove to the dead sea and were welcomed into our second free night at the holiday inn resort. We woke up early the following morning and got our suits on and ventured out for the Dead Sea. We did the floating in the sea with the newspaper (typical tourist) but it was so awesome!! Then we bathed ourselves in Dead Sea mud. We kept it on for about 10 minutes then bathed in the sea. Followed by two showers! The Salt in the sea was intense and burned my skin in many places!!
So far Jordan has really wow'd me! I really want to come back soon already and I haven't even left yet!
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