ASIANOVERLAND.NET SYDNEY TO LONDON  DAY 289/128/40: AQABA BEACH, JORDAN

July and “27 October, 1980

Great sunbathing.

Wedding of the Year.

Double page lift-out.

Remember forever; the day Ravishing Roxanne and Georgeous George Brett tied the knot!”

Aqaba was a summer wonderland, with beautiful beaches and coral for snorkling and diving, glass bottom boats, water skiing, wind surfing, sunbathing, relaxing and partying.

Another decker was at Aqaba and we held a joint wedding fancy dress celebration together.”

The desert areas around Aqaba, Jordan, Palestine and Syria are unmistakably Arab.

Arabs are referred to in ancient  Assyrian texts from the mid-9th century BCE as inhabiting present-day Syria, Jordan, Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon and Iraq. 

Arabs span many empires and dynasties throughout the ancient Near East, The Minaean and Hadhramaut Arab kingdoms flourished during the first millennium BC, while the Qataban and Sheba kingdoms were known for their wealth and power in the middle east region. Other Arab empires such as the Palmyrene Empire, ruled over Syria, Jordan and other Arab countries from Palmyra.

The  Nabataeans, Emesenes and Hatrans consolidated into Arab kingdoms stretching from the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt to Jordan in the east and covered much of Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula and the Negev. 

in the Middle Ages, the Arabs created the muslim Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates, whose borders reached Spain and southern France in the west, China in the east, Anatolia in the north, and Sudan in the south, forming one of the largest land empires in history.

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