Plane: 300 euros per anybody has/R
Departure in PARIS ROISSY 1 19102/01 12:25 OLYMPIC AIRWAYS OA 0202
Arrival in ATHENS 19/02101 16:30
Departure in ATHENS 19102/01 19:00 OLYMPIC AIRWAYS OA 0349
Arrival in AMMAN 19/02/01 21:10
Nothing with saying on the first plane. The second on the other hand, it is anything: everyone smokes inside, nobody did not sit, one takes off in a complete disorder, the hostesses are completely exceeded.
Telephone chart
For arrival, it is necessary to envisage currencies to be able to convert them into Jordanian currency, and to thus pay the visa. The bank card is not accepted.
One seeks our bus for Abadi Station (place in the center of Amman). People will ask for baksheesh to carry the bags and to put them in the bus (not to release are bag to make economies!) They are unpleasant within sight of the kindness of the remainder of the population.
One arrives at the neighborhoods of midnight to Amman.
There of many taxis are present and has a presentiment of itself against our bus: that worries us a little at the beginning.
One wants to join a hotel seen in a guide, and close to the place, but within sight of the external “pressure”, it is difficult to take a plan and to have the leisure to locate itself. One directs oneself finally towards another solution: Canary Hotel, by taking a taxi with 2 other people having chosen this hotel. That will enable us to negotiate the price of a room more effectively. This hotel is nevertheless close to Abadi Station.
Note:
- It is absolutely necessary to negotiate the price of a race before getting into a taxi.
The “right price” is 0,5 JD for Amman. One starts in general to 1 JD, sometimes 2.
- Canary Hotel 20 JD (25 JD before negotiation)
Very well, clean, new bathroom. The problem: there is very little pressure for water. The lunch is included.
Amman:
Capital of the kingdom of Jordan in the middle of the Middle East, it is made of several fertile hills and valleys. Although having a modern infrastructure, Amman is in fact an old, known city initially under the name of Rabbath Ammon at the Age of Iron, then like Philadelphia, one of the Roman cities of the formerly called urban confederation Décapole.
In addition to Amman (Philadelphia), the north of Jordan is the hearth of other cities associated with old Décapole Roman: jérash (Gérasa), Umm Kais (Umm Qays)….
Together, these sites give an idea of the magnificence of the Roman world to its apogee.
