Our flight home today is scheduled to depart from Amman Queen Alia airport at 11:10am. Working backwards we need to ensure the car is returned by 9:00. It is supposed to take one hour from the Dead Sea resort to the airport so call it one and a half hours to be safe! (7:30am) Breakfast – 30 minutes (7:00am) Therefore to account for, showering, dressing and getting our things together, I set the alarm for 6:15am.Roisin was already awake when the alarm went o...

Despite the stress of the previous day, our hotel room and especially the bed, was very comfortable. I say comfortable. Certainly to lie on. However, this morning we both agreed it wasn't the best night’s sleep we’d had. The mattress of the bed was memory foam but we think it had been still remembering someone else’s body!!At breakfast we met a young couple from Dubai. We explained our predicament about not being able to find the hotel yeste...

After breakfast there was really nothing more to hang around for so it was time to move on. At the end of the 1km dirt track from the Bedouin camp is a 'B' road. We asked one of our hosts the best way to get back on to the Desert Highway. Do we go back the way we came or continue on this minor road? The answer we were given was to continue on the road for about 20 minutes and we will join a main road that will take us to the Desert Highway. We looked in t...

After our antics of the past few day, I for one (and my legs could certainly vouch for this) was ready for a bit of chill out time with minimal driving. Roisin had no qualms with this. She was also up for doing nothing (apart from 15 minutes of driving!!)We had a leisurely breakfast that consisted of fresh flatbread, Cheese, omelette, cucumber, tomato, jams and preserves, yogurt, za'arta (a herb that is a cross between oregano and marjoram) and olive oil. One...

We planned to rise early today, head down to Petra as soon as it opens thus missing the crowds and the height of the midday sun. Petra opens its doors to visitors at 6am but as breakfast is not served until 6:30am in the Rocky Mountain Hotel, we pulled up outside the Petra visitors centre shortly before 8am.Petra is one of the Modern Wonders of the Modern World along with the likes of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China. In fact some archaeologists rank Pet...