In February, my dearest bought flight tickets to Jordan as a gift for my name day. However, whole trip was planned by our mutual friend and things got complicated a lot, since he couldn't go and those cheap tickets were actually to Israel, sooo... there were a lot of things we can just retroactively laugh at. Lucca summarized it beautifully so I will translate it for you all around the world :)

DAY ONE - DEAD SEA, bathing was a must!

Flight tickets to Israel just for 15 euros? So screw Israel and let's go to Jordan! Cause, why we should fly directly to Jordan, if we could land in the most God forbidden Israeli airport, that is more than a 60 km distant from a Jordanian borders, sleep one night in Israel, next morning take a cab to a borders, try thrilling crossing the borders from one country to another, take another cab to a closest jordanian city and rent a car up there, and on the way back go through the same once again with added value in the form of dodgy interrogation and luggage search? Otherwise, it would big boredom and we do like it thrilling.

I did not know a much about Jordan, so I did not even realize that I am travelling to Asia for the very first time. Now I know, that Jordan is a country:

• where you find not a few freely tossed dogs and puppies, that are hard no to pet

• where the camels are ridden by 10 years old children

• where young tourists with healthy legs would rather be carried up the stairs by suffering donkeys, just in case their feet won't fall off after a half an hour of walking

• where the word supermarket takes on a whole new meaning: tiny shop every 10 meters in which normal food except tuna could not be found and after 3 days you really start to hate it

• where, without the need for self-denial, you bathe in January and spend more time in the desert with more self-denial
• where the Bedouin in the desert will cook such a delicate dinner that you will be sorry for a week that you couldn't finish it
• where every wayfaring salesperson is convinced that she is better than another 5 meters away and the question "Wanna buy something here?" will echo inside your head for a very long time
• where camels have tied front legs so they can't go too far
• where they will take you to "best view in the world" for "5 dinars each", but if you are strong enough to withstand the onslaught, you will find out around the corner that you will get there for free and you can mock people from the opposite rock.
• where you end up being snookered, even if you're trying to be strong
• where do you prefer no to hug with your partner in the street because you will be defiled forever (more info in private message: D)
• where you always see only one side of the moon, because it takes it to rotate around his own axis approximately as long as it turns around the Earth
• where you do not expect an internet connection to work
• where do you prefer to buy a return bus ticket in person because you will find out later that you will not simply connect the Israeli site from Jordan
• where there are better toilets and showers in the desert than in the hotel
• where it is not as cheap as you would expect
• where I wouldn't have spent more than 5 days but where you should definitely go :)
• from where over 100 photos are just enough :D