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Madaba & the Dead Sea E-mail
From Madaba, Jordan   
Friday, May 09, 2008

Left Amman without any problems... taxi took me to the bus station, not a joy ride... got on the right bus -- since everything's in squiggly little Arabic letters & numbers, that's always an accomplishment... found a decent hotel where I met a nice Spanish girl... we walk out of the hotel & some guy grabs my ass... welcome to Madaba!!

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smoking a water pipe
But we end up meeting many nice people that make up for the jerk. First this guy buys us tea & sits with us for an hour... then a shop keeper spends another hour telling me his life story... then a local driver takes us to his house to meet his family & then to dinner... we come back & have the hotel worker spend another hour telling us her life story... finally we escape & go to a bar to smoke a water pipe & the guys there are so excited to see us, they all stand up & practically give us a standing ovation! All in all, it was a nice place.

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floating in the Dead Sea
The next day we go to the hill where Moses supposedly saw "The Promised Land" (Israel). Nice view, otherwise, not impressive. But then we go to the Dead Sea. So cool! Because there's tons of salt in the water, you really float... you float so much, you can't even swim. Seriously! Lying on my stomach, trying to swim, the water would roll me over onto my back. Really funny... I couldn't stop laughing the whole time! But the best part... it's a do-it-yourself beauty spa! Gave myself a salt scrub, then a clay masque & finally a mud masque... all with stuff I dug up from the sea floor.

Now I'm back in Amman & headed to Petra tomorrow.
Tags:  Jordan DeadSea locals
 
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