24th May 2010 Some of us on the truck read the book "Married to a Bedouin, written by a New Zealand born nurse Marguerite van Geldermalsen who first visited the lost city Petra with her friend Elizabeth in 1978 on a sightseeing tour of the ancient world. Little did Maguerite know she was about to meet the man she would marry, Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin craftsman of the Manajah tribe. Her story was inspirational and we were all hoping to meet her in P...

23rd May 2010 We leave Amman and head down to the lowest place on earth - the Dead Sea. The high salinity of the sea makes swimming great fun and swallowing repulsive. The extra density provided by the salt means that it takes very little effort to stay afloat. The waters are said to have therapeutic properties Some people covered themselves in the Mud which is also reputed to have therapeutic qualities. Had lunch on the road and on the top of the distant m...