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After two weeks of driving through Jordan we are touched and impressed by people and places. The country is rich in culture and history. The nature is meagre but gorgeous. People are friendly, welcoming and easy going. Although not the best car drivers on earth, not everyone is born to become a Michael Schumacher. We will remember the officer at the airport car rental counter who slept over his desk at 6am in the morning and later gave us a brand new car fully coated by mud. His excuse: a sand storm the day before, and reassurance: nothing wrong with the paint underneath. He just managed to clean the windscreen and windows for us. Inschallah!

Get ready for Jordan:
– A passport valid for at least six months
– Visa on arrival for EU-citizen. Fee 20 JOD. There is a currency exchange at the airport before the passport control / visa apply
– Travel health insurance
– International driving licence
– We found it useful: Jordan road map of “Reise Know-How”, edition 2011, with many touristic POI’s and an internet independent, GPS based Sat Nav. We have a Copilot App for our android tablet. Navigon does sell Sat Nav in Jordan but you can’t purchase map of Jordan to ad on your existing Navigon (according to Navigon’s email)
– General problem: Names of the same towns and locations in the map and Sat Nav we have differ from each other as well as from the local nominations! Obviously the authors have not double checked the local listing of town names (if there is any existing one!)
– Internet was available in all hotels we were free of charge. Quality of WLAN varied
– There is no petrol station and ATM in every village but you will find plenty of them on the road excepted desert roads. Maximum cash withdrawal per day with Visa / Mastercard is 250 JOD. Charge of local bank was 0,50 JOD, our home bank nil.
– Don’t expect EU hygiene and safety standard for everything. If you are not sure, ask the locals. If you still do not feel confident, don’t do it!

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