Peter - one of the new Wonders of the World (continued, p.2) Cafe ruled that the Bedouins, they all were dressed in Western clothes: shirts, pants and sandals - and everyone did not mind were the traditional Bedouin scarves. All eyes were summed up from what seemed to be that they are in relationship with Captain Jack Sparrow from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" (besides, they all looked just super). An elderly Bedouin with a mouthful of gold teeth, selling cheap bracelets, came to us and just threw us into shock when they suddenly began to speak in English with a strange accent of London, just like Michael Caine (the famous English actor, ca. Perevi.). All of this was somehow quite strange, but he eventually proved to be very good company. We have a very long time and then sat and listened to his tales of Bedouins. He was born in Petra in a cave and lived there for 21 years, until the government forced him to move into the village on a hill, where Bedouins still live all except a few families who still live in the most Petre. He pointed to the mound and asked: "You see that big white house? This is mine. I built it three years and only today I had electricity. It costs 350,000 pounds. " At that moment, it seems we all have opened my mouth in amazement, because he seemed an ordinary poor man who sold cheap jewelry to feed his family, but it turned out that most of the Bedouin of Petra - quite wealthy people. He told us that many Bedouins government allocated the land, and they sold it to wealthy refugee from Iraq at a price 10 times higher than the initial and later the Jordanian government has demanded the land back and re-distribute it among the Bedouins. He also told the guys that look like Jack Sparrow, who worked in a cafe is also very rich (and who would not get rich by selling water at ? 2 for a bottle?). They each have four wives, and they earn 500 pounds a day just in the cafe. It was particularly interesting when he started talking about the Bedouin culture, and that a lot of tourists from the West was married to Bedouin men, and they now live with the Bedouins. I asked, as if the opposite happens, but he did not understand what I meant. Then I asked: "A Bedouin women marry immigrants from the West?" And he said no, Bedouin culture does not permit such marriages and to the same "Bedouin Bedouin women like men." Treasury After this conversation, which lasted more than an hour, we decided to walk around the caves, and then returned to the cafe where we were greeted by the owner with his four wives. He invited us into the hall and offered a strong sweet tea ("Bedouin whiskey"), so we were able to join his friends Attal and Kasaba. We held them for about two hours, drank tea and talked about the Bedouin culture. Soon came our familiar old Bedouin, and our conversation continued until sunset, when all the other tourists had already left, and there was no one around but us and our new Bedouin friends. Bedouins, of course, were very hospitable people, although much of their culture has changed because of long contact with Western tourists and a lot of money, which the Bedouins have to dispose of. Attala told how he and his ex-girlfriend from the Czech Republic has traveled all over Europe, and somehow even pay 170 euros for a plane ticket to travel from Madrid to Rome to the party. They all seem to be very much drink and smoke. In the end it turned out that a Bedouin with a focus of Michael Kane, who was somewhere around 60, and Atta were siblings, and that in their family had 7 more brothers and 9 sisters who have had the same father, but five different mothers. Attalus was not the youngest in the family, but when he conceived, his father was 65 and mother 14, and youngest brother in their family was born when his father was already 78. I really wanted to ask, but I did not dare: I wonder what happens when a woman from the west to marry and settle Bedouins in Bedouin tribe? Whether they shared her husband with other women, as it is the Bedouins, or hope that their spouse will be monogamous in a polygamous community? Beauty Around 7 pm Attala invited us to Bedouin village, where he would go together in Kasaba. We again went through Peter, watching as local traders closed their shops at night. On the road we met a friend of Attalus, and he allowed us on the road to the village to ride on his two camels. Soon we got to the brand new "Range Rover" Attal. We sat in the car, Atta turned on my "iPod" and we went up the hill to his enormous luxurious home. There we sat in the courtyard, drinking tea. I was completely fascinated by the contradictions and strange mix of Bedouin culture and the influence of Western tourists who have turned the local culture in some eastern parody of the West. In the end I decided I would write my dissertation about the Bedouin. Our new friends suggested we go into the wilderness, there to dissolve the fire and marvel at the stars. We could not miss such a chance, even more so for me it was an opportunity to learn about the Bedouins more. Becca and I were very grateful to Emlyn, because he was with us. This served as a guarantee that all sorts of misunderstandings happen should not. Especially after Attala told me just before we went back to Wadi Musa: "Your hair and your long skirt is very beautiful ... Almost sexy!" At that Becca replied: "Yeah, almost but not quite . Attempting zaschitana. Start material: Completion of material:
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