Bananas Don't Travel Well

sweet shopAmman, Jordan, turned out to be a longer stay for us than we'd anticipated. It is one of those cities without a lot of sights, but with a really laid back atmosphere making it easy to stick around. In this sense, it reminded us of Taipei: good food, nice people, easy life. We ended up staying a whole week.

natural rock "painting"Our first stop in Jordan was the ancient city of Petra, where we spent two days exploring the ruins.

Situated in a valley whose only road in is through a steep-walled gorge called the Siq, Petra was a critical juncture on the ancient caravan route out of Arabia that supplied frankincense and myrrh.