Dead Sea
Posted July 23, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 1 Comment
The Dead Sea is famous for being the lowest point on Earth and for containing incredibly salty water that makes you float. The mineral rich mud below the sea also has a lot of health properties and they make some high-end cosmetics and beauty products out of it. The sea is on the border of …
Madaba
Posted July 22, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
Madaba is a pretty town south of Amman that serves as a good base for a lot of the sights in central Jordan. We stayed at a really cool guest house called “Pilgrim’s” that was right on the same property of St. George’s church in the middle of town. St. Georges’s is famous for being …
Jerash
Posted / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
Jerash is one of the most famous sites in Jordan and in all of the Middle East. It is a set of ruins that make up a really well preserved Roman city. We took a 45 minute bus ride from Amman. In front of the entrance, a man was making colorful bottles of sand with …
Amman
Posted July 21, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
We were able to fly Emirates from Dubai to Amman, Jordan and that was an experience in itself. The friendly service and little touches like table clothes on the trays (even in coach) made it one of our favorite airlines. We arrived without a hitch and then took a taxi into Abdoun – a somewhat …
Abu Dhabi
Posted July 18, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 4 Comments
Abu Dhabi is part of the United Arab Emirates and is about an hour drive from Dubai. Uncles Les drove us down there to see the see magnificent Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Amanda had to wear a full abayeh – she was covered from head to toe in a black cloth. The mosque had …
Dubai
Posted July 17, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
The first experience that we had in Dubai was the wonderful “marhaba” welcoming service that Uncle Les had arranged for us. Two kind young ladies met us at the gate and we felt very pampered as we jumped on a VIP trolley ride through the airport. We breezed through a special immigration line, had a …
Trongsa
Posted July 16, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
Trongsa was the last big city that we visited. We stayed at a beautiful resort called Yangkhil that is situated along a a hill that looks across a valley at the massive Trongsa Dzong. There was a prayer wheel that automatically turned from river water. While we were there, an important dignitary came to stay. …
Punakha
Posted July 11, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
Punakha is situated in the central part of Bhutan so it was a pretty long drive to get out there from Thimpu which is in the Western part. We broke up the drive with a lot of really cool sights though. First up was Dochula Pass, the site of 108 Bhutanese Stupas that were built …
Thimpu
Posted July 9, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 1 Comment
As we drove to Thimpu, we saw construction everywhere due to a big housing shortage. There are only 700,000 people in the whole country and a lot of them want to move to the more modern city of Thimpu. “City” is still a stretch though as it is basically just a bigger village where people …
Tiger’s Nest
Posted July 7, 2012 / By Adam and Amanda / 0 Comments
Early in the morning we drove to Taktshang Goemba, which translates to Tiger’s Nest Monastery. It is one of Bhutan’s most famous monasteries, sits on a sheer cliff face. A goemba is a type of monastery that is in a remote location. When a monk wants to become a master or lama, they go …