Harris World Tour

Sunday, December 16, 2018. Today we set up the alarm to wake up at 6:00am to see the sunrise. We heard that it was amazing. When the alarm went off, no one wanted to get up, it was too cold. But I told myself, how many opportunities like this do you get in life?  We got up and trekked south to see the sunrise. It was already light by then and I thought we had missed it but around 6:35, there it was, the big fireball rising over the desert. It was so beautiful, all I could think was, “thank you God for this moment.” We stayed out there for half an hour and then went back to the camp to have breakfast at 7. The breakfast was simple:  tea, boiled eggs, pita bread, hummus, cream cheese, jelly, and lentils.  We ate, said goodbye to our new friends and went back to our tents to finish packing. Our driver was ready and waiting outside to drive us to the village where our taxi driver, Montasar, was going to pick us up at 9:00. He was only an hour late. Luckily, we passed the...

I guess we have a new member in the tour. Saturday, December 15th, 2018. Today we took a taxi Wadi Rum. I have to say that I’m actually excited to spend the night at the desert in a Bedouin camp. Today, of course, the day we left, I got an email saying that they had my package. Luckily, our taxi driver -- the same one who had taken us to South Beach -- agreed to take us from Wadi Rum to Petra and he will bring the package. I always worry so much for nothing. You'd think I would have learned the lesson by now, but no. Anyway, we arrived at Wadi Rum and the taxi driver stopped outside a house. We were not sure why but then he told us that it was his friend (they all have a "friend") and that we could stay in their camp. We explained to him that we already had reservations with another camp that we had made online. We had an interesting time at the house. They invited us to negotiate in their courtyard.  TIP: do not reserve ahead of time unless you have free cancelati...