As I was leaving Aqaba, the bus tout said the bus leaves at 10:30, "inshalla, always inshalla" (God willing). God must have been willing as the bus crept out of the parking lot on the dot and made its way north to Wadi Musa at the edge of the Petra site. Along the way we were treated to local music videos which resembled Al Quaeda recruitment drive complete with armed men in masks rapelling buildlings and pulling people forciby out of cars.
The guidebook warned of numerous scams and hassles in Wadi Musa, and with the excpetion of
my hotel, the town delivers. The usual stuff, shortchanging, hidden fees, foreigners' prices, etc. But Petra is quite lovely. I visited it at night by candlelight and heard a musical performance and a brief story told by a local. Rather enchanting.
My hotel hosts said there are secret police that spy on people here. How East German...
The guidebook warned of numerous scams and hassles in Wadi Musa, and with the excpetion of
my hotel, the town delivers. The usual stuff, shortchanging, hidden fees, foreigners' prices, etc. But Petra is quite lovely. I visited it at night by candlelight and heard a musical performance and a brief story told by a local. Rather enchanting.My hotel hosts said there are secret police that spy on people here. How East German...
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Maybe it was like an ad for a tourist activity... you could have paid to have a go at rappelling down buildings in a headscarf. Kind of like the geisha-for-a-day offers they do in Kyoto.
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