Jordan

I hope that I never have to go back to Jordan. I am a 60 year old woman and was traveling with another woman my age about 4 years ago. We were so excited to see Petra and to learn about the culture. Instead, we had more than one sexist male guide who was verbally anti-Western/Euro. Okay, I can understand politics for sure- however, we (Americans and Europeans) according to one guide, are responsible for men “turning gay” and that Jordanian men were never gay until they saw such things on American and European television. Oh- another one? We’re filthy because we have dogs in our houses. Yet another said that he’d never let his wife wear makeup (we wear makeup AND we were traveling “just two gal pals”). Anyway- The food sucks. Their national dish is some slop called Mansaf. It tastes like a sheep died of old age and was then slow boiled in poor quality yogurt for 2 days. I met up with some very cool Palestinians in Hebron after that.. They invited me to lunch at their home and I was shocked at the delicious food. I told them that I’d just come from Jordan and they laughed and said that they all agreed that Jordanian food is garbage.