Jordan (not the tart!)

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Had a fantastic week in Jordan with the missus last week, after she'd finished running a conference on the Dead Sea - thought I'd post a few piccies...this is the 2,000 year old Nabatean city of Petra - absolutely amazing place.

 

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Who do women always play with bloody cats on holiday???

 

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After the crowds had gone...

 

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who's the fit bird with the ginger pussy

 

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who's the fit bird with the ginger pussy

Be good and I'll post a swimsuit pic LMAO!

 

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This was the first hotel we stayed in, the Movenpick..

Thats the Dead Sea in the background with the West Bank beyond...

The wife and her 'friend' again - oo-err!

Oh and they had one of THESE....

 

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Then we moved upmarket to the Kempinski next door - what a gaff, and what a fecking bill!!! But well worth it.

 

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We had a room right on the front near the best bar LOL

Dorne doing her Vogue (or was it Vague?) impression poor thing...

Me afloat!

Jordanian sparrow I chatted up...

Infinity pool..heated to 30c thank you...

 

[zippy656]

looks a great place

 

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suave bastard...

 

[mikep]

pictures of Jordan

Brilliant pics,have always thought about a hol in middle east,that kind of scenery has helped make my mind up to go and see some of it !

Mike.

 

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And thats it really, the rest wouldn't interest you, they're all rude....LMAO!:thumbs

But a terrific place, friendly people and a once in a lifetime experience.

 

[DaveAMac]

Absolutely amazing photos! Thanks for posting! The pics of the city of Petra are absolutely stunning! :bow:bow:bow

 

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Brilliant pics,have always thought about a hol in middle east,that kind of scenery has helped make my mind up to go and see some of it !

Mike.

Well Jordan is a good place to start Mike. Its not cheap though, and if you want to avoid spending big bucks on tours, you either stay at the Dead Sea, where its easy to do the usual biblical sites (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Mount Nebo etc..) or stay in the south at Aqaba on the Red Sea, where you can do Petra and Wadi Rum...most of Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in Jordan so that will give you an idea. Petra would have been a $600 day trip if we'd paid for it ( we didn't for reasons I won't go into!) as it was 3 hours each way plus the guide - had we been at Aqaba it would have been much less.

Dorne covers the ME in her job and later in the year we're going to Beirut - I like my roman ruins and am dying to visit Baalket in Lebanon and Palmyra in Syria, and her friend who is the country manager for Lebanon has offered to lend us his Hummer to do so - can't turn that down can I!

 

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Absolutely amazing photos! Thanks for posting! The pics of the city of Petra are absolutely stunning! :bow:bow:bow

Thanks very much - having been here I'd say just go. I was amazed how big the place is - the guide said you need three days really to get round it all, we just did part of it...and english is widely spoken, the current king went through Sandhurst and served in the British Army as an officer for 8-10 years, so they like us!