…and one elephant. But let’s start at the beginning. The slogan of Kerala (the state of India we’re currently in) is “God’s Own Country”. While we found Kochi to be nice and all, we could not quite confirm it to be God’s own country. Good thing we went to Wayanad next. Me hanging in the train. Before 8 Indians boarded our compartment. Thanks to the generous offer of...
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What do you know about Oman? Right. Probably nothing, or next to nothing. Which was the case with us, and which is also the reason we decided to go there. (Also, we wanted to catch a boat to India from there, since it’s the closest country in the Middle East to there. But no sir, not possible. Reasons for that require a seperate post about travel issues, I...
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So – there we stand, in front of Al Khazneh, the main and most famous attraction of Petra, the city of stone (seen in the picture above). A rather special moment for me: Ever since I first saw Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, seeing this has been on my bucket list. But, as it appears, it has probably been on the bucket list of lots of other people, too. Even...
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After being told by more than one Israeli that Eilat – the most southern city of Israel – was really worth checking out, we figured we might as well go there and cross into Jordan from there. We got on the Bus from Ein Gedi, and found ourselves in the city center of Eilat 4 hours later. (Bus connections with Egged, the national bus company, by the way, almost...
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We felt quite relieved to leave Athens after our not very pleasent experience with the local pickpockets. After the most in-depth search of our luggage we’ve ever experienced by the security guys of the Israeli airline El Al (we were quite relieved they didn’t take out the white gloves) and a short flight, we landed at Ben Gurion International Airport,...
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