THIS WEEK'S TRIP: AQABA, JORDAN
GO THERE:
Swedish Apollo arranges charter trips here during the period from October 27-30 March. A charter week with Apollo to Aqaba in november around 9 000 SEK per person in a double room. Scheduled flights with usually two changes from around 4 000 SEK.
BEST TIME:
Daily temperature is above 20 plus degrees year round. Swedish charter goes here from the end of October to March.
CURRENCY:
Jordanian dinars (one dinar motsvarare approximately ten Swedish kronor). ATM machines are located.
Live:
Most travel here as charter tourists at hotels included. An alright low price accommodation is offered at the Rae'd Hotel Suites (Al sa Eilot) with rooms from 327 dollars the night. www.raedhotel.com
EAT:
Many tourists have all-inclusive in their hotels. Aqaba has both local and international fast food restaurants (Mc Donalds, Burger King). A good budget eatery is Ali Baba (Raghadan Street) with large pavement. Floka (An-Nahda street) is a good fish restaurant as elegant Blue Bay (As Sadah Street).
GOOD TO KNOW:
There is a border crossing between Jordan and Israel, eight kilometres north of Aqaba. Kringresenärer should, however, know that an Israeli stamp in their passport makes it impossible to enter in some arab countries (though not in such as Jordan and Egypt). Anyone who wants to avoid the stamp in the Passport can ask Customs officers stamping on a loose sheet of paper.
CHARTER means a charter week with Apollo from Arlanda on november 17 with all-inclusive accommodation at the Radisson Blu Tala Bay Resort, two persons in a double room with breakfast, from 13 996 kroner. Also the departure from Copenhagen.
We are sol holiday on charter city Aqaba, Jordan's southernmost town.
The situation is absolutely at the top of the Red Sea, in the Gulf where Jordan, Israel and Egypt meet.
We took a dagslång boat excursion to the island of Pharaoh's Iceland, situated on Egyptian territory, a 45-minute boat ride to the southwest of Aqaba. On our journey, we reach a stretch where we can see the four countries ' coasts: Israeli, Egyptian, Saudi and Jordanian.
Boat excursion turns out to be a perfect way to spend a relaxing holiday in this region.
First beser we the small gravelly island with its old fortress from the 12th century. It was originally built by the Crusaders, but was conquered and built out in 1170 by the great Muslim leader and warrior Saladin. From the Fort controlled the important trade link between Cairo and Damascus.
More than the Fort's stone skeleton is, however, not to country dance.
When we looked clearly govern our wheel a short distance out and anchoring next to two other excursion ship in the middle of the bright blue water.
Snorkelling equipment is provided and we, 30 century tourists exploring the depth. It is not just that we need to give ourselves away. No, everywhere, around us and below, dotted with sea of colorful firrar, one more neck-breaking kolorerad than the other.
Soon spread sweet scents from the ship's deck. The ocean sucks and now tempts our chef with nygrillad fish, bread, salad, chicken and köttfärsspett.
Aqaba is Jordan's only port city and expand strong inter alia through state tax breaks. In recent years, the luxurious hotel complexes is quickly growing up, and the idea is to make the city into a tourism concept in the style of the neighbouring city, Eilat, Israel.
The population has doubled in 10 years (now more than 130,000) but the city itself has not really been in turistsatsningen. It's still mostly as a slightly sleepy provincial town.
Do we just live self-indulgent bad life is perfect right in the plush Hotel Metropol installations and Hilton. And Aqaba works excellent as a base if you want to make sightseeing trips to attractions such as Petra.
But the city itself does not offer a lot of sightseeing or shopping.
There is a small small castle from the 16th century, a Turkish bath and souken offers the expected supply of water pipes, textiles, jewelry, and health products from the dead sea. Otherwise seems traders directed entirely to local people with kitchen utensils and clothes of the living nature and low-price model.
We went 12 miles South by taxi to country dance the famous bathing resort Aqaba Marine Park. This dominates the local population and the smoke from dozens of grills is dense. But the beach is no more than ordinary and stony, and the few who bathes make it with clothes on (only small boys going bare-chested). And public toilets here should be avoided at all costs.
The city's finest hotels, the best beaches and, of course, the real pool range.
For vattensportfantasten there is a wide range. The better hotels offer such as water skiing and windsurfing, but most of the region is the scuba diving and snorkelling. In Aqaba and its immediate vicinity are not less 23 official diving spots. Dive spectacular korellrev, old ship wrecks and a huge and colourful fiskliv.
Väninnorna Margaret Isaksson, 56, and Anne Smith, 58, believes the charter this week has been very successful:
-Friendly people and secure, good atmosphere. No hard sales reps and go in peace.
Excursions to Petra, the dead sea, and Pharaoh's Iceland felt the very if:
-Exciting and with such diverse experiences.
-Trade seems most geared to locals, but we bought some dead sea products. And it is funny that they dare to associate themselves with us tourists. We had good contact with the local women who were on a boat excursion.
GO THERE:
Swedish Apollo arranges charter trips here during the period from October 27-30 March. A charter week with Apollo to Aqaba in november around 9 000 SEK per person in a double room. Scheduled flights with usually two changes from around 4 000 SEK.
BEST TIME:
Daily temperature is above 20 plus degrees year round. Swedish charter goes here from the end of October to March.
CURRENCY:
Jordanian dinars (one dinar motsvarare approximately ten Swedish kronor). ATM machines are located.
Live:
Most travel here as charter tourists at hotels included. An alright low price accommodation is offered at the Rae'd Hotel Suites (Al sa Eilot) with rooms from 327 dollars the night. www.raedhotel.com
EAT:
Many tourists have all-inclusive in their hotels. Aqaba has both local and international fast food restaurants (Mc Donalds, Burger King). A good budget eatery is Ali Baba (Raghadan Street) with large pavement. Floka (An-Nahda street) is a good fish restaurant as elegant Blue Bay (As Sadah Street).
GOOD TO KNOW:
There is a border crossing between Jordan and Israel, eight kilometres north of Aqaba. Kringresenärer should, however, know that an Israeli stamp in their passport makes it impossible to enter in some arab countries (though not in such as Jordan and Egypt). Anyone who wants to avoid the stamp in the Passport can ask Customs officers stamping on a loose sheet of paper.
CHARTER means a charter week with Apollo from Arlanda on november 17 with all-inclusive accommodation at the Radisson Blu Tala Bay Resort, two persons in a double room with breakfast, from 13 996 kroner. Also the departure from Copenhagen.
We are sol holiday on charter city Aqaba, Jordan's southernmost town.
The situation is absolutely at the top of the Red Sea, in the Gulf where Jordan, Israel and Egypt meet.
We took a dagslång boat excursion to the island of Pharaoh's Iceland, situated on Egyptian territory, a 45-minute boat ride to the southwest of Aqaba. On our journey, we reach a stretch where we can see the four countries ' coasts: Israeli, Egyptian, Saudi and Jordanian.
Boat excursion turns out to be a perfect way to spend a relaxing holiday in this region.
First beser we the small gravelly island with its old fortress from the 12th century. It was originally built by the Crusaders, but was conquered and built out in 1170 by the great Muslim leader and warrior Saladin. From the Fort controlled the important trade link between Cairo and Damascus.
More than the Fort's stone skeleton is, however, not to country dance.
When we looked clearly govern our wheel a short distance out and anchoring next to two other excursion ship in the middle of the bright blue water.
Snorkelling equipment is provided and we, 30 century tourists exploring the depth. It is not just that we need to give ourselves away. No, everywhere, around us and below, dotted with sea of colorful firrar, one more neck-breaking kolorerad than the other.
Soon spread sweet scents from the ship's deck. The ocean sucks and now tempts our chef with nygrillad fish, bread, salad, chicken and köttfärsspett.
Aqaba is Jordan's only port city and expand strong inter alia through state tax breaks. In recent years, the luxurious hotel complexes is quickly growing up, and the idea is to make the city into a tourism concept in the style of the neighbouring city, Eilat, Israel.
The population has doubled in 10 years (now more than 130,000) but the city itself has not really been in turistsatsningen. It's still mostly as a slightly sleepy provincial town.
Do we just live self-indulgent bad life is perfect right in the plush Hotel Metropol installations and Hilton. And Aqaba works excellent as a base if you want to make sightseeing trips to attractions such as Petra.
But the city itself does not offer a lot of sightseeing or shopping.
There is a small small castle from the 16th century, a Turkish bath and souken offers the expected supply of water pipes, textiles, jewelry, and health products from the dead sea. Otherwise seems traders directed entirely to local people with kitchen utensils and clothes of the living nature and low-price model.
We went 12 miles South by taxi to country dance the famous bathing resort Aqaba Marine Park. This dominates the local population and the smoke from dozens of grills is dense. But the beach is no more than ordinary and stony, and the few who bathes make it with clothes on (only small boys going bare-chested). And public toilets here should be avoided at all costs.
The city's finest hotels, the best beaches and, of course, the real pool range.
For vattensportfantasten there is a wide range. The better hotels offer such as water skiing and windsurfing, but most of the region is the scuba diving and snorkelling. In Aqaba and its immediate vicinity are not less 23 official diving spots. Dive spectacular korellrev, old ship wrecks and a huge and colourful fiskliv.
Väninnorna Margaret Isaksson, 56, and Anne Smith, 58, believes the charter this week has been very successful:
-Friendly people and secure, good atmosphere. No hard sales reps and go in peace.
Excursions to Petra, the dead sea, and Pharaoh's Iceland felt the very if:
-Exciting and with such diverse experiences.
-Trade seems most geared to locals, but we bought some dead sea products. And it is funny that they dare to associate themselves with us tourists. We had good contact with the local women who were on a boat excursion.
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