Today arrieve takes us to Jordan. If it wasn’t for all the beautiful blue skies, I would think these were photos of another planet! A good reminder that beauty takes many different forms. ~WaterGirl
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One benefit of all this free time has been the chance to go through old photos of journeys past, and finally process and organize the hundreds of old pictures. I miss traveling, and I wish I believed that it will be possible again soon. On the other hand, I’ve been incredibly lucky to have seen as much of the world as I have.
One country I would love to return to is Jordan. I wasn’t supposed to be there. I had a two week tour of Ethiopia booked in early 2017, but it was cancelled at the last minute because of a State Department advisory. I had planned to spend a couple of days in Abu Dhabi on my way to Ethiopia, and I’d already spent $500 on the necessary shots, so I started looking around for a place that was reasonably close to the Emirates and required the same vaccinations. I ended up spending a week in India — and because it was more or less on the way home, a week in Jordan.
I got to see Petra, which was a lifelong dream, but the real surprise to me was how much I loved Wadi Rum. It’s at the top of my list of places I’d love to go back to.
The red sands of Wadi Rum make it a reasonable cinematic substitute for Mars, and a lot of movies have been filmed there.