{"id":20,"date":"2005-12-26T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-12-26T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T15:38:21","slug":"first-thoughts-on-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/first-thoughts-on-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"First thoughts on Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I have to admit: I did not expect what was going to happen to me in Jordan! I was more than welcomed, everybody was extremely helpful and hospitable and basically Kirsten and me just had a wonderful time travelling. Although in the end it was a bit short!<\/p>\n<p>Head over to the gallery to see a first selection of pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/lazyest-index.php?file=jordan_first_impressions\/\">trip to Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you ever go to Jordan be prepared to find good food, usually good weather although the winter can be unexpectedly cold in Jordan as well and a lot of different activities that are very different from what we can do here in Germany. Well&#8230; at least the camel ride was, although, next time I wont be going with teenagers as guides who have no interest and knowledge whatsoever apart from the fact that they&#8217;re making money.<br \/>\nIn general, that is one of the biggest issues I&#8217;ve had with the people in the very touristy places: everyone is extremely helpful, but it&#8217;s never &#8220;just like that&#8221; but most of the time it was about giving a tourist a service or experience for some money. Well, seeing how there&#8217;s little other ways in making money down there this seems understandable, but nonetheless at some point you&#8217;re wondering if all the people see is this:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/homer real.jpg\" alt=\"homer real.jpg\" \/> vs <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/homer pidgeon.jpg\" alt=\"homer pidgeon.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There is also a gallery up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/lazyest-index.php?file=jordan_all\/\">all the pictures<\/a> that I took. Beware, there are close to 300 pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there are a couple of QuickTime VR pictures of some panomaras:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?page_id=21\">Petra &#8211; Tombs at sunset<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?page_id=22\">Petra &#8211; View Point 360<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I have to admit: I did not expect what was going to happen to me in Jordan! I was more than welcomed, everybody was extremely helpful and hospitable and basically Kirsten and me just had a wonderful time travelling. Although in the end it was a bit short! Head over to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}