7 February 2011 Total Distance: 18604 Distance covered today:260km Start: Moon Valley Hotel, Petra, Jordan Finish: Palace Hotel, Amman, Jordan We left this morning on the so-called Kings Highway. The King of Jordan is a very popular man, 49 years old and one can't drive 10km without seeing a poster of him alongside the road. This road follows the escarpment from Petra all the way to the capital Amman. The landscape is very hilly and reminds us of the Kar...

6 February 2011 Staying in Petra Petra means one thing - ancient rock-hewn buildings. And as said yesterday, Petra was made famous and recognisable to many people by the Harrison Ford movie, Raiders of the Lost Arc. Is it as amazing as people say it is? No. In fact it is a thousand times better. One only sees a snippet of Petra. First of all we are at an altitude of 1600m we are in a surprisingly mountainous area. Actually not unlike the Simien Mountains ...

4 February 2011 Total Distance: 18085 Distance covered today:150km Start: Fox Camp, St Katherine, Egypt Finish: Ferry, Nuweiba, Egypt This morning we drove to the beautiful St Katherine Monastery on the foothills of Sinai some 5km from our camp. It was really quiet there as we arrived shortly after 8am and it opens its doors to tourists only at 11am. This gave us the chance to meander around the grounds and climbing a few of the surrounding granite bould...