do you kneebros actually come to Amman, Jordan? There is literally nothing to do here and it is like 10 times more expensive than Prague or Istanbul.
do you kneebros actually come to Amman, Jordan?
do you kneebros actually come to Amman, Jordan? There is literally nothing to do here and it is like 10 times more expensive than Prague or Istanbul.
>Makes a retard post accusing imaginary people of doing what he admits doing in his retard post
Why are you like that? That's cuck behavior why do you hate yourself
I actually live here. Im trying to save people time and money. And I unironically don't care what someone who uses terminology like "cuck" thinks.
Inflation + Corruption.
The government has no other source of income than taxation. Any price you see in Jordan you have to add +26%
no
>I actually live here.
Well there's your problem. I live in Australia and don't get why anyone would come here yet look at all the tourists.
have you considered trying democracy?
or at least selling porn of your queen to fund infrastructure?
>Democracy
The country is basically owned and run by 8 families.
>selling porn of your queen to fund infrastructure
based
>The government has no other source of income than taxation.
opposed to all the governments that get income from non taxation?
Governments often get revenue from dividends in government owned businesses and other non taxed sources.
>goverment owned businesses
>producing profit
If only you knew how bad things really are
Maybe in your shitty country, I've worked for a government owned business and paid dividends to government.
How can a poor as fuck country like Jordan be more expensive than the Czech republic?
>Istanbul
I believe you mean Constantinople.
I'd probably swing by and check it out on my way to Petra.
I spent a week in Jordan, we flew into amman airport but stayed far out at a "hotel" (it was someone's house, they were actually a lovely family who cooked us breakfast)
Thanks for validating my decision not to bother
Petra was pretty cool but Aqaba was my favourite place by far. Shame about the big developments that will probably destroy the place
pretty enjoyable for the lack of tourism itself. the small museum at the acropolis is filled to the brim with archaeological treasures.
yep
Agreed, Jordan is only interesting if you've never been anywhere else in the middle east in my opinion (not including the gulf states)
Just so bland and boring
Came here for military reasons, got to take a little excursion to Petra and to Dead Sea. Petra was really cool, the hotel on the Dead Sea was nice enough but they just had a tiny roped-off portion for you to actually swim in which was gay.
Didn't get to explore Amman but just from driving through it didn't strike me as much of an experience for tourists.
All the coolest shit for me has been ruins out in the middle of the Syrian desert
jordan feels like it shouldn't have even became a country tbh. like its just an extension of iraq or syria or izrayel
Unlike the others it's a relatively stable and safe space.
probably the sleepiest country i've ever visited. amman is just strange because of the absurd urban sprawl (bc of some building height regulation, i heard?). found it very difficult to keep interested there for any real time, i think if the world cup wasn't on while i was there i would've had some real trouble in finding things to do. royal car museum is cool to and got to see my favourite car ever (slr stirling moss), albeit in an ugly color. petra itself is ok but absurdly expensive compared to other similar attractions worldwide, and wadi musa is shit bc the locals there are all disgusting fucking thieves. i understand the tourist price inflation, but when they tell you with a straight face that a water and twix is 9 dollars just because they see you're foreign, it can all fuck off.
if you don't speak any arabic (luckily i do a little to avoid/call out things such as above), you'll do nothing but have money extracted from you in jordan. departure tax if you leave by land (dk about airports), they charge you to take the mandatory bus between border checkpoints as well as charging you per bag, etc. currency is absurdly pegged and doesn't convert properly when you pay by card so that'll fuck you too. the northwest near leb is quite nice apparently, though.
Jordan is bedouin country. Specific tribes historically conducted banditry along the caravan routes, and currently support the Hashemite family because it provides them gibs in the form of guaranteed tourist jobs. The rest of the population is actually extremely nice and relatively aware of how little their country has to offer, so I enjoyed myself while I was there.
I took a €1 flight there from Cyprus back when Ryanair had just started that route up. Amman is insanely boring, the citadel area was pretty cool but there was nothing going on anywhere else. As others said, just bland and sleepy. Petra was pretty cool of course but that's as expected and the country is expensive for what it is but I knew that going in.
i went to Jordan for 5 days and it was awesome
day1 (after arriving previous night), amman, coliseum, ruins on the hill, drive to jerash, walk around jerash, drive to dead sea
day2, dead sea, drive to kerak, walk around kerak, drive to aqaba, aqaba nightlife
day3, walk around aqaba, drive to wadi rum, camping in wadi rum
day4, walk around wadi rum, climb up the rocks, drive to petra
day5, walk around petra, take photos with a whole class of highschool girls who thought i was a novelty, drive to the Christian town near the airport at like 2am
flight out that morning
got pulled over multiple times by the police who immediately backed away as soon as they saw i was white. driving down the kings highway for 6 hours was like mad max, just oil tankers incoming overtaking each other
I want to travel in Jordan in spring, but it seems there is no proper public transportation infrastructure. I'm thinking of hitchhiking from Amman down the king's highway or the dead sea coast towards Kerak and Petra. Anyone have any experience doing this?
there are busses
There are busses, they do exist, but there is no schedule and no real information about when and where and if they run.
so your conclusion is that you wont be able to use them?
just go to a bus station and ask, buses run all the time, also its not a very big country.
And if that fails, or if busses don't run where I want to go, I'll have to resort to hitchhiking, which is what I'm asking about.