Aqaba and Snorkeling the Red Sea
As we drove into Aqaba after a long day in Wadi Rum, we saw a Safeway. We tend to visit grocery stores to buy drinks and snacks and it was…
As we drove into Aqaba after a long day in Wadi Rum, we saw a Safeway. We tend to visit grocery stores to buy drinks and snacks and it was…
We decided to give the Dead Sea a few days to calm down, so we decided to drive south to Petra via the inland route which meant climbing up and…
We spent about half the day driving from Split, Croatia to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We made a point to stop along the way at Mostar and see the old bridge. The bridge and the river were really beautiful. From Mostar and drove a couple hours to Sarajevo. It's amazing and terrible to think about a beautiful city hosting the Winter Olympics in 1984 and then being shelled almost daily just a few years later...
Split was pretty interesting. To me it felt and looked a bit like a mix between Athens and Tel Aviv, just much smaller. We went to the old town and bought some tickets to tour everything in the Diocletian's Palace. Later in the day we rented scooters and cruised down to a nice beach where we once again swam in the Adriatic Sea...
The waterfalls were pretty and we could imagine how much more amazing they could be when water levels are high, but there's always a trade-off with national parks like this. Do you plan your visit for the "best" amount of water and the most tourists in your way? This is the off-season, but it was really cool to see all the fall colors reflecting on the tops of the blue-green lakes...