For those who feel Jordan as a developed country while walking in the fancy streets of Amman should try their transport service to remind themselves of where they are. Most turists come to Jordan through all-arranged tours, in and of tour buses, and never see the big mess of a country that lies beneath. For those individually trying to get from Amman to Petra there are only 3 options:
a) either you join one of those pre-arranged tours
b) get a taxi to drive you
c) or, you take the minibus as everyone else!!!What an experience...i will tell our experience and you can jugde by yourselves
In our hostel we asked for the bus schedule but it was told us that it is non-existence and we'd better go there early. So we did..bargained a taxi to the main bus station - 15 min out of Amman - and there we were. Quite easily we found the "platform" from where the bus was about to arrive and leave (they told us any moment and it took 1h30min) and waited. When everyone saw the bus coming they didn't even let it stop and they all got inside while the bus was moving...just like that..in 30 sec it was full and throughing people off!!Altought we were there before anybody else we had no sit..again we waited and 30 min after we got a new shot and this time..NO MERCY!!!We got a tiny spot for both and the bags, payed 2 or 3 times more than the locals but we were on the bus on our way to Petra!!!An adventure that real exemplifies the mess of the transport system. It happened again for us from Petra to Aqaba. No time-tables and no fix prices..worse than in Syria or Turkey!!!
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