Crusader Fort at the Port
Container vessels queue up in the harbor, making for quite an industrial vista for those of us sitting poolside at the posh resort hotel.
Dan here. We took the Labor Day holiday to drive down to famous Aqaba, Jordan's only port. The guidebooks warned us that the summer months are unbearably hot there. King Abdullah II, like his father before him, has a winter retreat not too far from our hotel.
Our solution: spend as much time underwater as possible. The Royal Diving Club - not at all exclusive despite the name - rented us fins, masks and snorkels. An amazing expanse of coral lies right smack against the coast, so they provide a walkway to allow you to splash into the water well clear of the fragile reef. We were joined by several exotic looking fish, and a good number of Jordanian vacationers, enjoying their last weekend of daytime eating and drinking before Ramadan fasting.
This will be our last Ramadan for a while. Yes, we got our onward assignment. More on that later.
The view out of our window. Our hotel elevator had the usual buttons you'd expect: floors 1, 2, 3 etc. but the feature we loved was the "B" button, for "Beach". Needless to say "B" was our favorite floor.
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