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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#3)
14/11/24 – 15/11/24 Unlike my experience last year, flying to Istanbul via KL, this particular journey went off without a hitch! We landed in Istanbul not long after 4pm (with my Dad in tow for another trip together!), and took the Havaist bus into the city. It was only going to be a short visit…
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CAIRO – EGYPT
7/4/24 – 10/4/24 After a mad dash through Amman’s airport (leaving the domestic arrivals area, running around like a crazy person to international departures, going through security and passport control), I made it to the gate for my flight to Cairo with a few minutes to spare. It was a relatively short and uneventful flight,…
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AQABA – JORDAN
6/4/24 – 7/4/24 Wadi Rum was an incredible experience (even down to my goat-hair tent!), but on Saturday morning, I found myself in the back of Ibrahim’s Jeep, heading back to civilisation. I said my goodbyes, and was left in the carpark outside the Wadi Rum Village Rest House. My next destination was the Red…
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WADI RUM – JORDAN
5/4/24 – 6/4/24 I had opted to take a ride from Petra to Wadi Rum Village with Asri Tours, a minibus operator that makes the trip twice a day. Everyone in this area is well-connected, and the guy who runs Asri Tours (on the minibus, of course) contacted Ibrahim, the manager of Wadi Rum Fire…
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PETRA – JORDAN
4/4/24 – 5/4/24 There are a variety of options for getting from Amman to Wadi Musa, the town located next to Petra, ranging from local minibuses to private drivers. I opted for the middle ground – the tourist-oriented JETT bus. This company runs coaches and small buses between various sites in Jordan – it appears…
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AMMAN – JORDAN
3/4/24 – 4/4/24 Amman’s main airport, Queen Alia International, is well-equipped to handle foreign arrivals, as Jordan is quickly becoming a tourism hotspot, with travellers flocking to the kingdom to visit the ancient archaeological site of Petra, and see the vast expanses of desert at Wadi Rum. This also means that the arrivals area is…
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ERBIL – IRAQI KURDISTAN
31/3/24 – 3/4/24 I’d been told that the best way to get around in Iraq was to use the shared taxi system, which operate from garages around the country’s major cities. This approach worked well the previous day, when travelling to Hillah en-route to Babylon, and so I headed out of Baghdad, this time from…
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