I left Kuwait early this morning and got another bargain flight with Jazeera Airways, again don’t know how many times I can stress the importance of being flexible and patient. It’s always beneficial to search around in order to get amazing last minute deals. We are now about half way to Petra, we, I mean myself and two French tourists that I met in Amman this morning. My initial plan was to stay in Amman, the capital of Jordan, for a night or two, but due to the excitement and meeting two others, who were willing to go to Petra as quickly as possible, we decided to locate the bus station, though we were heavily mislead, not once, but twice. The original guy, I think that he was a tour operator in disguise, was trying to persuade us that there were no buses leaving for Petra and that it was a national holiday, he actually left us reasonably close to the downtown area, where we managed to locate a taxi, the taxi driver was actually honest and left us to the station for an ok fee, then, upon arrival, we were told once more, that there was no bus to Petra and that we would need to book a tour, eventually, we found the bus, on the other side of the station and we were good to go and only needed to wait around for an hour.

The route so far has been nice, some great desert views and we bought tones of snacks and food, pre-departure, so we have been ok. I don’t have any idea where I’m going to stay when I arrive in Petra, I haven’t had a Wi-Fi connection since last night, so I’m unable to check booking.com, I’ve got a general idea of where the bus is going to drop us off in Petra, thanks to Maps.me, so I’m going to assume that there will be plenty of places nearby to stay. I plan on going to Petra first thing tomorrow morning and spending the entire day there, it will be too late by the time that we arrive later on and, once again, I’m exhausted and could do with a full night’s sleep. 

Delighted with how the day went. I got up early this morning and walked all the way to the Petra entrance. It was about an hour walk, but it was totally worth it, just for the amazing desert views and meeting the locals doing their morning chores. I arrived at the entrance and there was a fee, about of about 60USD and there was even a currency exchange located right next to the entrance.  It was a fair bit of a walk. It took about an hour walk to get to there from the entrance, but the walk is worth it, walking through caves and different parts of the desert and it was worth it, once we got the chance to be rewarded with the amazing view of Petra.

We walked back and located a nice restaurant serving mansaf and hareeseh for dessert and we dived right in and had another feast. I’ll likely be taking the early morning bus tomorrow and attempt to go to Aqaba,a town right on the border with Israel, then hopefully cross over to Eilat, on the Israeli side and attempt to take the bus all the way to Jerusalem which sounds absolutely amazing. It might be a bit too demanding of a day, but I’ll see how smoothly the day goes. My alarm is already set for 7:30 and I hope to be on the 8:30 bus and then cross into Israel as soon as possible, which should give me enough time in Eilat to locate the bus to Jerusalem.