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We get up late and tired by all the events of the previous day, and with the head still thinking about the surgery of Cheiko in Amman. After checking the views of the bay from the terrace of the hotel, the first thing that we make is to visit the Royal Jordanian offices to confirm the return flight to Spain next Saturday. Although our tickets are from Iberia, the kind employee phones to the Iberia offices in Amman to confirm our passage. After a good while looking at us, he tells us that he has realised that he knows us, which that surprised enough. He reminds us from the previous night taking a coke in the street. Although Aqaba has a slight cosmopolitan air of border city, it finishes being a town where everybody knows everybody.
Since the flight is confirmed, we decide to stay in Aqaba and its beaches until Saturday in the morning, when we will take a bus of the JETT company early in the morning that will drive to Aqaba with plenty of spare time to take the airplane in Amman (4 JD per person).
The rest of the morning and the afternoon we'll go to the beach. We try to go to the Club Murjan, property of the AL-cazar hotel, but these days it's closed for renovation, so we aim ourselves in a trip of the diving club from the hotel to a near beach, where while they dive in the King Hussein Reef, we can snorkel. From this beach you can see a lot of ships in the gulf of Aqaba, and in the other side of the bay, the beaches of Eilat in Israel and Taba and Nuweiba in Egypt.
The jordanian reefs acceses is easy and directly from the beach. At first glance they give the impression of being quite dirty, with many bottles and cans of beer in the bottom. As soon as one stills all kinds of marine species appears from among the rich corals. The experience of diving or snorkelling in the Red Sea it is really worthwhile.
In the afternoon we are devoted to walk through the center of Aqaba that turns out to be quite lively, and we take advantage of the good prices of the local stores to buy the last souvenirs and gifts, among which it's a water pipe or narguile that allows us to remember in the future the intense days that we are living in Middle East.
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