Hot Day in Amman

Security in Amman is still quite tight. To enter the hotel, one needs to go through rigorous search and x-ray screening for the luggage. The reason is to avoid what happened a couple of years ago when a series of bombings hit a few renowned hotels here.

Today I attended a series of meetings. The first one was a long session lasting nearly 3.5 hours with 14 others from the counterpart. Was planning to go through my presentation in 1 hour but ended up talking 20 minutes longer! Luckily no body smoked in the room. It was still quite stuffy though; only respite was the endless round of coffee and tea.

Later in the afternoon went to another office for yet another meeting. At the end of the day it was quite tiring but finally I can put a wrap on this project, which took the better of me of the last 9 months.

Amman is hot today at 35 Deg. C. The city itself is fast developing with lots of new buildings going up. The one in the photo is an office comples and when finished will be the tallest building in the city. Tomorrow we are off for a short detour to our business trip. The office here has offered to bring us down south to Petra.