My second travelbook presents Jordan for Beginners – as I saw it in 2017 during a remarkable 9-day tour. The book will take you through famous sites such as the pink city of Petra and the amazing desert of Wadi Rum, the colorful diversity of the capital Amman and the hyper-salty waters of the Dead Sea. But it will also show you places not very well known among the compilers of popular tourist programs for the country. Such are, for example, the sandcastles of the desert – Amra and Al-Kharana, or the huge basalt city of Umm-al-Jimal. Unfortunately, the book is only in Bulgarian for now, but English is coming!
Intro
Have you ever slept in absolute silence? There is no rattling of public transport, no growling of cars or motorbikes, no teenage shouting or mutating laughter of the kind that pierce your ears, nor current chalga hits amplified by your neighbor. There is also no dog barking or cat meowing, nor even a pigeon cooing just to be mentioned. You wake up early, not because the garbage truck has decided to empty the bins at 06.30 on a Sunday morning – as why would those bastards gonna sleep, while I, the honest garbage man, work at any time – but because you are simply ready to get up at sunrise.
You leave the Bedouin tent and the sands and rocks of the desert slowly begin to appear before you. The shadows of the latter slowly change and shift as the sun rises, and you patiently wait with your clumsy little cheap camera in hand for enough light to gather and allow you to capture whatever. Absolutely surreal for a European citizen, at least until a noisy stream from the bathroom would show you that the neighbors have woken up too.
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