The Last Crusade

Petra, the Rose Red City, was the main reason for visiting Jordan. Spectacular ruins. Have you seen the third Indiana Jones movie? I think it was called The Last Crusade, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it's the one with Sean Connery and Harrison Ford is looking for the Holy Grail. They filmed a lot of it here at the ruins in Petra because of how incredibly spectacular they are. It covers a huge area of ground and a person could easily spend two or three days exploring them...unfortunately we only had one to spare and by the time noon hits it is so hot that it becomes way too unpleasant. Luckily we started our day at 7:30 because we hit the wall at noon. It is beyond words.
Getting out of Jordan proved to be frustrating. We took a mini bus to the coastal town of Aqaba in order to take a ferry across to Egypt. It probably didn't help matters that the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh had just been bombed the day before. After some time trying to communicate at the port and determine what time the next ferry departed (I still don't know exactly) it appeared that we would have to wait in the hideous ferry terminal for about 10 hours if we wanted to travel on the same day. No thanks. I really couldn't sort out whether the boat was at 7, or 9, or 11 . . . I was seriously on the verge of freaking out on the man working there but managed to exercise self control. We grudgingly caught a cab back into town and found a hotel for the night.
Catching the ferry the next day to Nuweiba, Egypt wasn't too much of a hassle (comparatively speaking) but did involve going back and forth from one window to another to complete all the different steps in the process. We were reaching our fill of the middle east, but still, it was on to Egypt we went.