November 12. 2015

I have a bad cold when I wake up so I just have a can of tea and then search a pharmacy to get flu pills. I rest until noon and then find out that the Amman citadel is just, well not around the corner but up at the hill. My muscles are still sore from the steps in Petra but I don’t care and go up there. The sight is really worth the climbing, some parts of it are older than 8500 years. After a little less than 2 hours I go back to the hotel to take a little nap again and more flu pills.

In the evening I get food again at Hasheems restaurant. On the table next to me are some people from Lebanon who invite me for tea and more food. I am full of Humus and falafel already but don’t want to insult them so I eat some more and have another tea with them. They tell me that Lebanon is even more expensive than Jordan but really beautiful.
In the evening a friend tells me about a terrorist attack in Beirut – two suicide bombers have killed more than 40 and injured over 200 people. So it will be very secure in the week to come I think but probably a lot of annoying checkpoints everywhere. I don’t want to stay in Beirut anyway as it really seems to be incredibly expensive (though very beautiful as many people tell me).