Taxi: “No meter! One dinar!”

As I have already mentioned in my previous post, what I'm really enjoying in Jordan is going by taxi - it's extremely cheap, quite fast and in most cases comfortable as well. It's also fun, as they apparently don't have any traffic rules:)

I'm sure that as soon as an European driver turns up on the road, crash happens. You simply must have a sense for this kind of driving style. Almost the same applies for pedestrians: when I wanted to cross a road for the first time, I was waiting five minutes before I realized that I must just GO. And hope not to be smashed:)

For the first time
It wasn't easy to navigate the driver, who wasn't absolutely sure where we want to go and neither were us. So Gee had to even turn on his laptop and show the route on the map:) I was really enjoying the ride with all windows wide-open, air blowing all around, pleasant sunny weather...
We were driving for around 40 minutes from our hostel in downtown to completely opposite side of Amman, where the PSUT (university) was located. Driver wanted 17 JD (20€), which seemed to be quite a fair deal.
As we got to know later, the point on his taximeter was "somehow" shifted, because correct prize was 1,7JD (2€). Yes, the taxi is really cheap here... and the driver had his lucky day:)

Couple of rules
> always want a driver to turn a taxi-meter on*
> never pay more than 5JD wherever you're going
> don't use white taxis, they are more expensive - yellow ones are fine:)
> don't travel after midnight, prices are doubled then

*Sometimes it's not that easy (see the title of this post), but it's cool! ;)
Just to add, that we spent 2 hours in taxi per day in average!