Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Aqaba, Jordan (Nov. 8-10)




Arrived in Aqaba after a pretty long travel day including a missed flight (my first ever) due to Abu Dhabi's taxi service (or lack thereof). Plus the requisite waiting altrenating with rushing. Strange things happened. I survived.

I visited a hotel touted in the guidebook as a backpackers' favourite for service and cleanliness. Apperently the Lonley Planet people never visited the establishment which plumbed the depths of squalor, if not price. Little good to say about the town excpet that the diving is fabulous. I visited a coral garden that went on forever, and did a wreck dive to 25 metres. Fish which were indescribably beautiful. Puffer fish. So cool.




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