Sightseeing in Jordan: Travelling from the Death Sea through Amman to Dubai

So this is probably my last post about Jordan for this time. I spent my last day in Jordan at the Mövenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea's hotel spa called Zara, which indeed was a great way to get rid of some stress before my long flight to Japan. Though I probably should have done some pre-booking yesterday; due to overbooking it wasn´t possible to get the treatment I originally had in mind.

But still thanks to good service from the people working there I got some other good options instead so all in all I was quite lucky.

Taking a taxi from the hotel to the airport in Amman only costed 45 dinars, which is quite cheap considering the distance.

The airport in Amman was truly a mess though. I really felt unsecure there.

One of the guys who worked at the airport took my luggage from me almost by force and took it through the security-check.

But he waited on the other side keeping an eye on my luggage and gave it to me right away. So I thanked him of course but then all he said was "give me money". After all he had looked after the luggage for me so I said I didn´t have dinars but perhaps some euros. I gave him a couple of coins but all he said was "give me 10 euro!"

I really felt uncomfortable and said I didn´t have any more in cash.

Then he pointed at the opposite side of the airport and told me to take out money at the ATM over there.

So I really got upset and said to him that "in my country we don´t do bribes!".

He was gone before I´d even noticed..

The rest of my trip went rather smoothly though. I gave the rest of my dinars (which in fact only was 1 dinar) to a guy I came across who was washing the floor. He seemed like an hard-working guy and I didn´t need the money anyway.

My flight was 10 minutes delayed, but I´ve got about 5 hours until my next plane leaves so I can´t say it matters..

Right now I´m at the airport in Dubai, and I´m pretty happy since I´ve got free internet connection here. The chairs aren´t that bad either.! And compared to the airport in Amman it´s actually nice and quiet as well!

Good night everyone:)

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