Eid in Aqaba

Eid filled up the hotels and hostels in Aqaba and packed the beaches with those celebrating the end of Ramadan. To any of you thinking of visiting Aqaba, the temperature is warm enough to shed the layers needed in Amman and possibly even go for a dip in the Red Sea. Aqaba is a developing tourist town, with all the problems that presents in a conservative culture, so even though the beach will bring thoughts of bikinis to mind, think about dressing more conservatively than Amman or consider paying to enter one of the hotel beaches.