Wadi Rum-Jordan

Two weeks ago, hubby and I went to Wadi Rum with a group of friends from different countries. Basically they are hubby's colleagues coming from Romania, Mexico and France. We did had a great time together on bumpy jeep tour, watching shooting stars together at night and of course joking around during the trip.

Let me start with some intro about the place. Wadi Rum is a protected area covering 720 square kilometers of dramatic desert wilderness in the south of Jordan. Huge mountains of sandstone and granite emerge, sheer-sided, from wide sandy valleys to reach heights of 1700 meters and more. Narrow canyons and fissures cut deep into the mountains and many conceal ancient rock drawings etched by the peoples of the desert over millennia. Bedouin tribes still live among the mountains of Rum and their large goat-hair tents are a special feature of the landscape. The temperatures can vary from a daytime average of 32°C down to 4°C at night.

There are various of camps available in Wadi Rum to stay and we chose Bait Ali as the environment are better compare to others. We chose to stay in chalet as well not going for tent stay as I am worried that I will have thousands of mosquitoes bites as souvenirs home. This is something that freak me out when I read those comments online about the tent stay.

The main entrance of the camp.

In Bait Ali, you can choose to stay either on tent(right) or the chalet(left).

Closer look of the chalets. All houses in Amman are square, even chalets!

The interior.

Bathroom with hot shower in desert is something luxury :)

The living room once you enter from the main door.

The lounge. We had our breakfast and dinner here.

Swimming pool in the desert is something extra-ordinary too :)

A big aloe plant in desert, something that worth a picture!

On jeep tour around the desert.

 Our driver told us that there is a hot spring in between the rocks but we didn't climb it as the route seems a bit dangerous. We were not prepare ourselves for any hiking.

The sands are red!

The "Siq" in Wadi Rum.

Picture taken by my friend, Nicole. You can see how tired I was. Walking through the sands for an hour ain't not easy.

Our driver.

Historical writing on the wall.

The most interesting spot, Umm Fruth or known as "stone bridge".

The guys climbed up!

To climb up was easy and they had difficulty to come down. Thus, they get the young driver to guide them.

We were sleeping at the empty land between the chalets and the tents to catch the shooting stars. It was my very 1st experience to see so many shooting stars in one night. And of course I made my wish once I caught a shooting star. So I got lots of wishes! All of us were closing our eyes due to the strong flash from the camera and suppose our environment was dark and quiet. The mosquitoes were having "International buffet" while we were enjoying the shooting stars! :)

We just spent a night at Wadi Rum and the next day we headed to Aqaba for a seafood lunch before going back to Amman.

Glass boat adventure at Aqaba. The temperature was 40 celcius! My face was all red cause by the hot weather :(

And who knows our car air conditioner broke down on the way back to Amman. So it was like double killing! Anyway, we did enjoyed the trip and looking foward for more trips in future :)

2009 Christmas-Dead Sea

This year hubbie gave me a massage package as my christmas present. I do not have any object as a remembrance but a sweet memory. We celebrated this christmas at Movenpick Resort, Dead Sea. We spend a night there with complimentary of buffet dinner and breakfast. We had our room upgraded from standard room to a premium room as hubbie wrote in the comment box that we will be having our honeymoon during the reservation. Well, we are happy with the upgrade as the room is with balcony and private swimmng pool! And, they gave us lots of souvenier which mostly are the minerals products from the Dead Sea. They even decorated our room with roses. I think we really got a great deal so don't remember to mention that you will be celebrating anniversary or honeymoon like us in order to get a free upgrade! Maybe not all hotels will be giving such upgrade but no harm for a try!

Okie, back to my chirtsmas pressie, it's actually a sunset couple massage. We will be having our massage open air while enjoying the sunset. We actually enjoyed the sunset after the massage coz the massage was too comfy and we fall asleep. I think pictures will be the best to describe about it :)

We get our foot massage before the body massage. You may see the water was muddy in colour, but it was not because of the dirty foot. They actually use the mineral mud to clean our foot.

We were served with arabic coffee while having the foot massage. Anyway, the coffee taste like " air longkang".

This is what I meant, the couple sunset massage :) Okie, we were not naked. I am wearing bikini and hubbie wearing his beach shorts.

After the massage, we were served cocktails while enjoying the sunset.

See...our therapists also took their chance to catch a sunset picture while waiting for us.

Overall, we were quite satisfied except for the price. We paid 250JD for the massage which is almost equivalent to RM 1250. We do understand that with this money we can have 12 times of  body massage in Sri Petaling, but I guess hubbie just wanna give me something special and he did accomplished it! Thus, the money spent was still worth it :)

Another thing I would like to blog here in this entry is about the Dead Sea. Some of my friends did asked me what is the special or unique about it. Well, the Dead Sea is over 400 metres (1,312 ft.) below sea level. Being the lowest point on the face of the earth, this vast, stretch of water receives a number of incoming rivers, including the Jordan River. Once the waters reach the Dead Sea they are land-locked and have nowhere to go, so they evaporate, leaving behind a dense, rich, cocktail of salts and minerals that supply industry, agriculture and medicine with some of its finest products. Thus the mud from Dead Sea are like precious.

People normally will rub the mud all over their face and body. The mud is provided from Movenpick.

Aha..my "Ah Neh" hubbie...

You have to wait the mud dry up before washing it off at the sea itself.

The unusually high salt content enables one to float effortlessly even though you are damn heavy.

Hubbie having fun!

Dead Sea is one of the tourist attraction of Jordan so make sure you try the mud and float whatever style you want. hehe...

And here, we hope is not too late to wish you all have a good year ahead and may GOD bless you.

Petra, Jordan- One of the Seven Wonders of the World

Petra, the legendary lost city carved into the walls of a hidden desert canyon, is the most famous attraction in Jordan. I was not really excited about the trip in the beginning, because I knew I am going to walk a lot until my knees hurt. But after all, I think it is worth to visit Petra once in your lifetime because those carved walls is really marvellous. Being a city girl like me, I have a high regard for it and its really deserves the name being one of the seven wonders of the world.

Basically, if you plan an one day trip to explore the whole Petra, that's gonna be too rush and I pretty sure you are not going to finish the hiking. Unless, you taking those Mercedeez Benz and BMW in Petra. Haha..yeah camels and horses are known as Benz and BMW in Petra~with air conditioned which is the natural wind. By riding those animals, you can save your time and energy and of course a big hole in your pocket too. But in my opinion, you will not able to feel or enjoy the unique of the place if you riding the animals for the whole day in Petra.


We planned 3 days 2 nights for our trip to Petra. The 1st day we walked as much as we could, at least we reached the Treasury and the Roman Theatre. And we went for the Petra night as well, which means we walked to the Treasury again for the second time at night. Petra night is kinda special as they will put small lanterns along the road and lead us to the Treasury. I feel it's quite romantic to walk in dim light with ur partner with the cooling air. Once we reached the Treasury, the staffs will serves us hot tea and 2 performances by them. Nothing much to comment about their performance but I can say that they can prepare something more interesting to us.


On the 2nd day, we entered the Petra from the second gate which is nearer to the Monastery. Since we walked so much on the 1st day, the second day was planned to ride on the donkeys up to the Monastery. Monastery is located up to the hill and to get there you will need to climb on an ancient rock-cut path of about 800 steps. So we rided on the donkeys and the experince was quite scarry. The rocks seems slippery and when I looked down to my left or right, it's high cliff! I am worry that the donkey was too tired and accidentally slipped then I will ended up my body down the cliff. The another thing that worried me was the guardian of my hubby's donkey is only 10 years old kid. He seems that he cant controlled the donkey well and always just let my hubby rides the donkey alone without guarding the donkey. But anyway, we were safe from the trip and we really enjoyed it.

Here are some pictures to show the magnificient place:

Clockwise: Monastery, Treasury at night, our donkeys on the 2nd day and  Treasury in day time and the Siq.

We went to Aqaba after Petra, just to relax and enjoy the Red Sea.

I love holidays very much and will be going to Dead Sea Movenpick Resort to celebrate the coming Christmas!