With the transport to and from the Blue Lagoon sorted with our Special Offer (also available as a stand alone transfer), we made our booking for the Blue Lagoon and added in a reservation for dinner at the Lava Restaurant on site. It should be noted here that you have to[…]
Blue Ice £177 (ISK19,900+5,000 pickup) So after a rocky start (not being picked up for our trip), I wanted to give the tour a chance. My travelling companion was a keen climber so the opportunity to climb on a glacier was her number one thing she wanted to do. We[…]
We went on Iceland’s famous Golden Circle Tour with Bustravel.is which was part of their Special Offer package, but by itself it costs ISK9,490 (£67) per person. We had somehow managed to get on a noon departure tour, which I have subsequently not been able to find reference to on their[…]
Should I Go? Iceland shares the magic of New Zealand but is closer to Europe and North America. Cheap trans-Atlantic flights with attractive stop-overs make Iceland a convenient exposure to alien natural beauty. A third of a million people live on an island about 40% the size of the UK (the[…]
Sharm El-Sheikh is an Egyptian resort town on the Sinai Peninsular, facing the Red Sea. I had stayed at one of the cheaper resorts on the south side of the city previously, so I decide this time to go a little more upscale and find somewhere on the north side.[…]
I couldn’t figure out anything to do in Amman – none of the attractions really appealed so I had booked myself into Private Half Day Tour to Jerash (now £75.13, £96.15 back in June 2015). I figured I could go out and see Amman in the afternoon. Jerash is touted as[…]
The next leg of my trip is to head from Petra up to Amman for a day trip to Jerash – the Pompeii of the Levant. I had weighed up the different modes of travel, and decided that there were a few things I wanted to see or do on the[…]
Sometimes I write multiple posts on different destinations that all relate to the same trip – in this example my trip to the Holy Land which started in Jerusalem, moved on to Petra in Jordan by way of Eilat and finally ended up in Sharm el Sheikh. I like to have a[…]
Petra is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. It’s an iconic site made famous by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I arrive at The Mövenpick Petra after a rather unfortunate border crossing at about 3pm, and check in. There[…]
The Mövenpick Petra is a resort in Wadi Musa (the town at the entrance to Petra) and is the closest you can get to the Visitors centre which serves as an entrance to the World Heritage Site of Petra. I paid top dollar to stay there – and didn’t regret[…]