(Sam) Well, India is finished, now we are in Jordan. We spent a few days in Amman, the capital, and did a day trip to a few places including the Dead Sea. You can read about all this on my parents blog. We took a 4 hour bus ride to Aqaba, a coastal town popular with Jordanian and Saudi tourists. It would have been a great bus ride if it were not for the way people would smoke on the bus without even opening the window. At one point we stopped for a smoke break and the man in front of us light a cigarette and smoked it on the bus! It was disgusting.
Aqaba is famous for it's coral reefs, and today we rented snorkels and went to check it out. The reefs were beautiful, in all sorts of shapes and colours and easy to access from the shore. We saw all sorts of marine life, including, jellyfish, clownfish, stonefish, sea cucumbers, and many other very colourful types of fish. We also saw the wreck of a ship that has been turned into an artificial reef. The water was a nice temperature although the beach was nice too when you were ready for a break. There was also a shallow reef plateau and when you swam over it the coral and the fish were just inches away from your face, it was amazing.
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