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As if gender can ever (or should) be fully formerly larboard out of the conversation, I’ll try to recap some of my late-model adventures.  Two weekends ago I went with the whole CIEE band on a three day trip to see Wadi Rum, Aqaba, and Petra.  It was fabulous.  (I posted more pictures to the album).  We took two license buses from Amman to Wadi Rum, this fabulous valley (wadi means valley in Arabic) surrounded on all sides by whopping dirt rock mountain things.  (I’ve be given b win to realize that it is difficult to know what to call things when they don’t have anything growing on them… I notion of it is a mountain or a big hill, but it is difficult to test size when you don’t have anything to compare it to.  If I recognize the normal size of a fully matured tree for criterion, and if that tree looks incredibly humiliated, its probably a really tall mountain/hill.  If not, its a mounting.  Whatever.)  Very majestic.  After touring a tiny museum on the history of Wadi Rum and watching a sparse boring film, we mounted some camels and started out on a four hour badger to our camp ground.  Every assessment I’ve ever heard about a camel terrorize has always included “camels stink!” but either my nose wasn’t working duly or my camel just took a perceptive hot soapy bath.  Anyways, it was all very rustic, I wrapped my scarf around my crest, wore some big cheap sunglasses and rode Lawrence of Arabia look.. which honestly is much less comfortable than just sitting on it like a horse, not like a horse sitting on a camel, a myself sitting on a horse (as if I really needed to shed that).  Every so often our guides would motion the camel to discard to the ground and we would un-gracefully leap off and take advantage of a quick climb up a hot sand dune or stony cliff or really anything else that was deemed ‘climbable.’  As the sun was stage set and those who were fasting were about to chug some water, we made it to our set ground… incredible Bedouin make tents surrounding a large lodge fire with classic Bedouin style coffee hot and waiting.  We very soon climbed up some rocks and watched the last of the sun set and then scampered back down to get off on an amazing buffet.  (I don’t come up with Bedouin’s normally do buffet category… but again, we were definite tourists.)  The sunset continued with some wonderful music and all of us being taught some village dances around the fire.  Between the music, dancing, Coca-Cola (I never Nautical Davy Jones's locker soda, and I’ve discovered Coca-Cola is an specially hard kick in the face), and hookah (the adjoining pasttime here, flavored tobacco… unfortunately a 40 min hookah assembly is equivalent to smoking an entire tamp stop of cigarrettes in a row), I was pretty excited.  After most everyone wandered of to bed with a strike still in their feet a few of us wandered back out into the open throw over and headed for the nearest large hill/mountain.  After 30 or so minutes we were false on our back high above the desert plane enjoying the cold-blooded night breeze and starry sky.

The trek back to the faction brought me back to planet earth… evacuation from the day finally sunk in and the envitable low rocketed through me as is the box when the high reaches the stars.  All day people kept making comments in regards to the points that what we were doing had been done for centuries.. that we were part of history.  But of performance, that is an exciting thought in the moment, the on the cards of giving up this laptop and adjusting to a dream of term tent-dwelling lifestyle is not an invigorating fleeting thought… its a whole team of understanding and mentality, which ought not be touch about at 3:00 in the morning.  So we irrevocably made it back and I crashed.  The morning was lovely.  Before being loaded five by five in the back of old Toyota pickups and recklessly drug across the desert to the main highway on our way to Aqaba and the Red Sea, I took in one last look at the rising sun on the abscond expanse.  The sky was so big and strangely colored, it was finical to even determine if the sun had risen.  The sun splinterred the sky as it rose and special colors exploded over the our campsite.  I left-hand my camera in the tent and told myself and told myself I would keep that one all to myself.

After a grueling three hour junk ride with an upset bladder and angery sand filled eyes and contacts, we ultimately made it to our second destination, the Aqaba Yacht Cudgel.  Should I say Spring Break!!!!  No in reality, the program ‘rented’ or whatever two big boats, I don’t distinguish if they were yachts, I don’t know what qualifies as one, nor do I see myself in any feeling in life actually learning or needing to learn the dividing line between different boat forms.  Both were complete with some popular American techno beats and close at hand for a party.  Everyone excitedly jumped into their bathing suits and danced about waiting to get the go in the lead to jump in the water.  Dependably, Aqaba this time, was a little too Experience Breakish for me.  I wouldn’t decline that I am perhaps too ‘elitist’ or whatever to suffer myself to enjoy that sort of thing too much… mock boat techno time on the Red Sea.  After an hour of swimming around with snorkeling goggles (which were of dispatch in large supply on the boat), I more comfortably settled into my own small-minded world in my journal and did some healthy and interested thought into the weekend and my overall duration here so far.  A very good friend here knew what I was doing and joined me in my anti-appear break rest and we spent the relax of the afternoon discussing Quakerism, the premature Church, and photography.  Even with my God willing boring, to some, conversations, I still managed to get some new trustworthy tan lines.

After our little boat voyage, some tasty almonds and an ice cream bar, we all filled up back into the buses and drove to our campsite close Petra.  Everyone quickly ate and headed to bed to put together for our early morning rise.  Petra was recently added as one of the 7? 8? Wonders of the Period so it is always incredibly crowded.  In rank to beat that, it is imperative to get there as early as practicable so all of your pictures don’t include put off high heeled Europeans (of which I saw many).  The survive was perfect and we were able to take a leisurely formerly with our tour guide through the long entrance passage, past the money-photo (see Indian Jones), and into the city center.  The big apple really was unreal.  It has been constantly inhabited for thousands of years.  Unfortunately, or fortunately, I still can’t get my forestall around it, the Jordanian Government forced all of the residents out of Petra in the 80s into a city that they built for them near by.  The new hamlet came equipped with technology, American rakishly food, and schools.  Some were exhilarated, some were not.  But, the gvt did make them a deal… the only people who are allowed to furnish anything inside Petra are the original inhabitants or the children/children’s children of the autochthonous inhabitants.  Because of this, education and slack out rates are becoming a serious issue in the region.  Adults strongly hearten/force many of their children, I saw kids as unfledged as five years old, to leave/quit institute early to go and sell useless garbage and donkey rides to tourists.  I tried genuinely hard not to focus on this though as it could have honestly indubitably ruined my day.  Getting caught up in the hard-hearted, strange, unfortunate social issues in the tract would have done no good as there was not a thing I could have done about it, other than not buy anything from the kids… which I didn’t.

But yeah, Petra: spectacular.  If you’re ever in Jordan….  In actuality though, it was aweing to see an entire city that was carved out of shake up. I guess at one time there were over 30,000 people living there.  Corroborate out the pictures… any of them that look like man-made caves or humongous colors in rock are of Petra.  Towards the end of our then, I wandered off with one of my friends and we climbed up into an old mausoleum above the city to watch the people and furor below.  We began to hear this remarkable and eerie flute sound and satisfied enough a local man came walking along with a homemade flute.  He climbed up into the final with us and we chatted for awhile.  He is Bedouin and we well-educated that he still lives in Petra, right above the vault we were hanging out in.  What was funny was that licence before he came, we had just been chatting about whether or not people still real in Petra secretly.  Well, our new chum does, with his wife, seven sons, and one daughter.  Very recently as Omar did, he spoke all about how he was taking the day off and people put their hopes and concerns too much on riches… he said it is better to have very but.  We actually exchanged phone numbers and whenever we are back in Petra, he said he wanted us to call so we could defer with him, drink tea, and play some music.  I don’t really know how to fill out a travel request make up for the program with that sort of information though… it would be a ‘happen’ adventure, though.

Then back to Amman.

Yesterday, I went on my half a mo trip with the program.  This was a day tour with 17 other people to Wadi Hasa.  The bailiwick was fascinating.  Like every other part of Jordan I have seen so far it was mostly desert but had a distinctly unusual more-earthy/soil feel to it.  Unfailing enough as we continued to drive, occastionally there would be an unimaginable patch of green, mostly tomatoes, growing out of the tan brown dusty Terra.  I’m fascinated by agriculture here and am still worrisome to figure out how I can learn more about it.  Anyways, the faux pas was a six hour water hike.  Like every other set off, it too was incredible.  The first thing we did after getting out of the vans and putting on our knee pads was fire ourselves down this ‘rock slide’ into 9ft beyond water.  The day was full of lots of running and jumping from reptilian wet rocks into an unknown depth of Latin aqua and swimming under water and rocks to get to an persuadable passage or dry land.  At one single out as we continued to move upstream the water became incredibly genial.  Natural hot springs!!!!!  Yeah!!!!  All throughout the day I kept tattling myself to memorize what I was doing and seeing as this was one of ‘those’ experiences.  I certainly didn’t take my camera (a few people supidly did and of circuit broke them… thats an overpriced mistake), but I think I did a good job glacial it in my mind.  I also got to hold all sorts of dwarf local creatures… mostly crabs, but still heady.  Our tour guide also happened to be the most charming face I have seen yet on this whole trip… so that was a honorarium.  I’m happily serious today.

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