HTEWF, k.
From Petra we headed out to the Wadi Rum. We made it there by 4:00 pm and the temperature was 39 degrees celsius. Consequently, Maha and Charles decided to have us wait an hour in the shade of the Wadi Rum Cafe so the heat would lessen to a tolerable level. The top picture is of a natural flie repellant we observed at the cafe. According to Maha, flies are attracted to the bag of water because it's shiney. However, when they get closer they see their reflection magnified and it terrifies them so much that they flee. Bedoines also use shiney metal platters to get the same affect.
At 5:00 pm, 5 different jeeps arrived, each with cushioned benches in the back to seat 4-8 people. We loaded up. The 5 musketeers (Peter, Dave, John, Ben, and Brenden), plus Jafar (our tourist policeman who acted as a sort of body-guard/tour-guide assistant), Sarah (Maha's teenage daughter), and Solomie (Sarah's friend) got the fastest jeep (darn them). I went with Anne-Marie, Sharon, Diana, Rahji, Issa, Sonia, Skye, and Danielle. We think our driver didn't know where he was going because any time we started to get ahead he would suddenly slow down and start following the first jeep again, despite our horribly pronounced encouragements of "Asrah, asrah, asrah!" (arabic: "Ah-seh-rah": faster!).
The middle photo is of Anne-Marie and Sharon in our jeep. The bottom photo shows Maha walking between jeeps to check out the status on a mechanical problem with one of the jeeps in our entourage.
From Petra we headed out to the Wadi Rum. We made it there by 4:00 pm and the temperature was 39 degrees celsius. Consequently, Maha and Charles decided to have us wait an hour in the shade of the Wadi Rum Cafe so the heat would lessen to a tolerable level. The top picture is of a natural flie repellant we observed at the cafe. According to Maha, flies are attracted to the bag of water because it's shiney. However, when they get closer they see their reflection magnified and it terrifies them so much that they flee. Bedoines also use shiney metal platters to get the same affect.
At 5:00 pm, 5 different jeeps arrived, each with cushioned benches in the back to seat 4-8 people. We loaded up. The 5 musketeers (Peter, Dave, John, Ben, and Brenden), plus Jafar (our tourist policeman who acted as a sort of body-guard/tour-guide assistant), Sarah (Maha's teenage daughter), and Solomie (Sarah's friend) got the fastest jeep (darn them). I went with Anne-Marie, Sharon, Diana, Rahji, Issa, Sonia, Skye, and Danielle. We think our driver didn't know where he was going because any time we started to get ahead he would suddenly slow down and start following the first jeep again, despite our horribly pronounced encouragements of "Asrah, asrah, asrah!" (arabic: "Ah-seh-rah": faster!).
The middle photo is of Anne-Marie and Sharon in our jeep. The bottom photo shows Maha walking between jeeps to check out the status on a mechanical problem with one of the jeeps in our entourage.
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