Oceanos – Travel Blog

AQABA, JORDAN – When I was preparing for this 10-day journey to Jordan, most of the people who heard about it responded with furrowed brows. ‘Do you think it’s safe to go there now? Aren’t you worried?’
Their alarm was so intense that I partly succumbed to it, and boarded the plane for Amman on [...]

Second stop: Agra, about three hours south and a little east by train of Delhi. Again, chaos. Agra is a dingy, industrial city, with buzzing autorickshaws, cows, pigs, heaps or garbage, raw sewage, and flies. We found a taxi driver who would charge us 400 rupees (about $8 U.S.) to take us around the next [...]