March 9

By: Emilia Frost

Today was our last full day in Jordan, but tomorrow we are flying out to Egypt. Egypt will be our last country to visit before heading back home.
We drove 2 hours to the city of Aqaba to see the Red Sea. The Red Sea is where Moses split the sea and walked through it on dry ground. We got to ride on a glass bottom boat and saw coral with little fish swimming around it and next to that there was a military tank on the bottom of the sea floor, my dad said that the king of Jordan put it there so tourists have something to looks at🤷‍♀️. Then we saw the king of Jordan’s yacht, it was huge. My dad really wanted to quickly jump onto it and look around because we didn’t see any guards. Of course he was joking though. Or was he? Anyways, we were on the glass boat for about an hour. The sea was gorgeous. The color of the sea was a transparent turquoise (not red ;) Considering all of the trash on the land, there wasn’t much trash in the Red Sea.

Once we were done, we drove to a place in the middle of the desert called Wadi Rum. We ate some pretty good lunch there then we were led to some really sketchy looking trucks. We were told to get in the bed of the truck where there were benches that we sat on and looked like they were going to break with the first gust of wind. They fit 6 people so my family and another one of our friends sat down and the drivers of the trucks started driving. I had no idea why we were in the trucks. We could’ve been getting kidnapped and I wouldn’t have known. It was actually just something for tourists. You got in the back of the truck and the drivers would drive really fast and take you to some cool places in the middle of the sandy desert. We would zoom through the red sand and at times it felt like we were going to fall out. The area surrounding us was breathtaking. Huge, skyscraper like, rocky mountain things (I don’t know what they are called) and fine, red sand blowing towards us. We stopped next to a big sand dune and climbed up on top. The climb up was hard because the wind was making all of the sand go into my mouth and eyes (it didn’t taste very good). Once we got to the top, me and Cason rolled down the sand dune. It was fun but I got a whole mouthful of sand and sand is probably going to be in my hair for a few more months. After that Cason and I got to ride more CAMELS! I didn’t know the name of mine so I named her Patricia. The camels behind me were making a lot of burping camel noises (we think it meant that they didn’t like being in the back of the herd) we rode for about 30 minutes and met back up with the trucks and the rest of the group at a little gift shop.

We drove on for 2 more hours to a small rest stop where we got some snacks and looked at some vases made from the mud of the Dead Sea. Then we drove for 2 more hours to our hotel and ate some delicious dinner.
I’m excited to go to Egypt tomorrow. 🤪

We have videos but we need to post them on YouTube