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== Personal experiences ==
'''Experience in June 2022''' - [[User:Falcor|Falcor]] We (F+M couple) successfully hitched around Jordan (Amman, Petra, Tafila, Dead Sea, Madaba) in June 2022. Unlike the previous experiences expressed below, our experience was of very welcoming and respectful people, who were very generous and keen to help. Most people were happy and curious to meet travellers from Australia.
We suspect the unfortunate experiences expressed below may have been a rare exception, as our experiences were quite the opposite. No one tried any inappropriate touching, kissing or hugging!
From what we saw, foreign hitch-hikers are not so common in Jordan and people often assumed we wanted a bus or an informal taxi service ("I'll take you for 5JD"), or perhaps simply that we were lost and needed help. Still, we got rides from a wide variety of folks, including truck drivers, farmers (complete with goats in the back of the pickup), students, a tour guide, a security guard, foreign workers, and foreign tourists. We did not expect to get picked up much by cars with muslim women, but did get a ride from a young family with a baby on board.
Following common advice to travellers in middle eastern countries, he did most of the talking and sat next to the driver when appropriate. She felt a bit invisible with some of the more conservative folks, but that was rare.
We experienced no disrespectful or inappropriate behaviour. Throughout our travels, we found people incredibly polite (even hawkers accepted the first 'No thanks' and wished us 'Welcome to Jordan' with a smile). People were keen to know we were having a good time in Jordan, they often drove us a bit out of their way, and they often offered us additional help, food and drink.
'''Experience in February 2022''' - [[User:Z-z-z88|Z-z-z88]] I hitch-hiked with my girlfriend, in general people are friendly and speak English, but there are a lot of perverts. Our couchsurfing host tried to kiss my girlfriend into lips in front of his friends and I was just 3 meters away, then he asked me if he can have sex with my girlfriend or watch how me and my girlfriend have sex.
