Day: July 14, 2019

We got up early and enjoyed some more of the quiet and peaceful atmosphere of the desert.

After a breakfast, we went back to the parking lot on the back of the truck (Reiner) and me on the back seat of a Toyota Hilux. There we said goodbye to Johannes and Evita.

However, we met them again at the Dead Sea Spa Hotel, where we stopped in today. We were quite excited to float in the water and we were not disappointed. With no movement at all, you can be carried by the Dead Sea and even read a book while doing so!

The water is very warm, crystal clear and flickers a little. It smells more strongly of the sea than the North Sea and you feel like it has a little more substance. It tastes nasty and burns the eye a lot. I have tested this myself! We also smeared ourselves with sea mud. A scrub that makes the skin nice and soft. But I could not stand it for long, because then it began to “prick”. Well showered off we ate a soup and just chilled .

Silke

We started shortly after 8:00 am in Wadi Musa and drove to the Wadi Rum Restcamp. There we parked our car and then waited a while for two other fellow travelers from Latvia. When Johannes and Evita arrived at 10:45 am, the desert tour started. The slightly older Toyota, with an open, shaded cargo area converted to seating, drove us to several viewpoints in Wadi Rum.

We visited the source of Lawrence of Arabia and the house in which he rested with his caravan. We could climb up a red dune and enjoy the great view there. In several Bedouin camps we had a cup of sweet peppermint tea. For lunch, our driver prepared a meal of pita bread, bean stew, eggplant puree, cream cheese and tuna. We drove to a gorge that we walked through and to two natural stone bridges that you could also climb up. Many camels were happy to serve as photo models.

In the evening we had smoked chicken with vegetables, rice, bean stew and salad in a hole in the ground. Bedouin tea a campfire with moonlight and starry sky rounded off the beautiful day. We slept in permanent Bedouin tents with two beds each. Two brick wash houses with running water provided additional comfort.

Silke