My travelling-companions

I’m back from a three week trip to Jordan and the Sinaï desert in Egypt in one piece and managed to resize some pictures so i can show you part of my trip. We planned a trip to Jordan and where considering also visiting Syria and/or Egypt depending on the available time and travel possibilities.

We arrived in Jordan at 2 AM at night and probably because we already got our visa at the embassy in the Netherlands we where allowed to enter the country and pass customs through a different line that usual…. the VIP/Diplomats line! Everything went really fast and in the airport a taxidriver was waiting with a sign with our names on it. He took us to the hotel where we fell asleep pretty fast.

I’m gonna spare you all the travel stories… some pictures will tell the story for me. All i can say is that Petra is very, very impressive and well worth a visit. Another thing you may not miss is taking a plunge into the Dead Sea. That’s a funny experience! Jordan has by the way many more beautiful and impressive sights well worth visiting.

During my trip i had two watches that accompanied me. The IWC Pilot Chronograph that i also had on my wrist a few weeks before when i visited New York… and of course my all time favorite vacation watch, a Citizen Automatic Diver. This was my first automatic watch by the way!

The scenery in Jordan is most impressive and when travelling throughout the country you will see many mountains, valley’s, rocks and other natural beauty. Only the first day we saw some clouds, the rest of our 3 week trip was with a cloudless sky.

Nice... isn't it?

And after half an hour drive from the place where i took the above photo, the landscape was comepletely different again. This was near Dana where a large natural reserve is. The small village is Dana.

Dana village

See the little guy in the photo… that’s me

Me in front of the gorge

And after walking more than half an hour through a long canyon you’ll come to this place. Do you already have a clue what’s next?

First glimse of Petra

Well… of course it’s one of the seven wonders of the world, the ancient city of Petra. In the following photo you can see the Treasury, probably the most famous of all remains. We where there early… really early in the morning so we could see the beauty without thousands of tourist filling up the place.

The Treasury

We did some hikes around the place and it is all totally stunning. The next day of course more walking and climbing and in the afternoon we went to the so called Monastry… also an often photographed building in Petra.

The Monastary

After Petra we had enough of 35 degrees Celsius, dry air and a lot of sand we we travelled to Aqaba for some diving and sunbathing. We hadn’t expected that almost all decent hotels in Aqaba where fully booked so we took the fast ferry from Aqaba to Nuweiba. Nuweiba is a small village in the Sinai desert in Egypt and execpt for the nice beach and great diving sites it has not much more to offer than ‘peace and quiet’… which was exactly what we where looking for. Looking from our balcony you can see my feet… and the sea