On the 16th of November we flew from Luxor to Amman, Jordan. We got there at night so we just drove to our hotel. The next day we did school and then we took a taxi to the citadel but it was closed. So we took a taxi to Beit Sitti. It’s a Jordanian cooking class. My parents had signed us up for it a few days before. We cut the vegetables and mixed the dough. We made Maaloubeh, Moutabbal, Farmer’s Salad, and pita bread. Maaloubeh is dish with rice, eggplant, chicken, and tomatoes. You make like a cake in a big pot and then in the end you flip it upside own. Moutabbal it eggplant cooked over an open fire mashed up and with tiny diced vegetables and some fruits. Farmer’s Salad is like Greek salad but smaller vegetables. We made our very own pita bread. We also made desert. All of it was delicious.

The next day we picked up our rental car and drove to Aqaba, a town on the Red Sea. We went down to the beach and swam in the water. The next day we drove to a different hotel on the beach and went snorkeling. It was so cool! The spot we went to was called the Japanese Gardens because it was giant clumps of colorful coral and fish. It was one of the best snorkeling places. The next day we drove to Wadi Rum. It’s a nature reserve in the desert we’re the Bedouins used to live. They have made it sort of touristy and you can stay in a tent like the Bedouins. It was amazingly pretty! It was just red as far as you can se with amazing rock cliffs and sand hills. We got there pretty late so we hiked on the cliffs till it was dark and then had the Bedouin dinner they had prepared for us and then went to bed.

The next day we woke up early and got in the back of a pickup truck. Our driver drove us to a sand boarding hill and we sand boarded for a while. We drove around Wadi Rum and hikes through a canyon, walked on a giant arch, hiked in  another canyon, and then drove back to our car. At the place where we parked our car were these adorable puppies! They were the cutest thing ever! We then drove to Petra.