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On our 4th and last day in Jordan we visited Jerash, which is about 50 km (30 miles) north of Amman, and is considered one of the largest and most well preserved sites of Roman architecture in the world outside of Italy.  It once had a Roman population of 15,000 to 20,000.
We entered the city [...]

Day 3 in Jordan was spent visiting the Dead Sea, Madaba, Mt. Nebo, and a short drive to see the Roman theatre in the old part of Amman.  
First we went to Madaba which is reknowned for its Byzantine-era mosaics.  Here is the most famous one in St. George’s Church – it was unearthed in 1884 [...]

The next day, we spent a half day at Wadi Rum which was made famous by Lawrence of Arabia.
 
Unlike the desert of Dubai (which is flat), the desert area of Wadi Rum is hilly – great for rock climbing! – and the scenery is quite spectacular.  We hired a driver to take us around and [...]

In early December, DB and I decided to get the heck out of Dubai for a few days since we had 3 days off due to one of the Eid holidays.  After considering a few places like Maldives, Eqypt, Turkey, we settled on Jordan.  We flew Emirates from Dubai to Amman (3.5 hours) and then drove [...]

One of the frustrating thiings about living in Dubai is that you never really know when a public holiday is because most of the time, the holiday is based on the phases of the moon.
So it’s only a day or so before the holiday is annoucned does one know what days are off (Makes vacation [...]

I hope everyone had a nice NYE!  DB and I had planned on doing the same thing we did last year (dinner at home then off to the beach in front of our JBR apartment to watch the fireworks).  But since Sheikh Mohammed cancelled all NYE’s fireworks celebrations in Dubai (yes, all), we just stayed [...]