Yellow taxis and white taxis and other Amman, Jordan Transportation Tips

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Getting TO/AROUND: Taxi is the best way (and almost only) to get around Amman on your own. It's very inexpensive, and rather fast compared to big tourist coaches, cause taxis tend to move faster in often city traffic jams.

There are two kind of taxis. The yellow ones are a la carte route. You catch one, and you go where you want. The lighting word TAXI is at the top of the car. The white ones, which a lighting pannel in arabic, have already fixed routes, which are expressed in arabic signals, and you share them with others who want to take the same route. Is quite inexpensive too.

One important thing: almost everybody in Jordan speak english, at least basic english. Taxi drivers are not an exception, and they can understand you and speak basic words. But, mind to tell your destination in the arabic name, otherwise they won't have a clue of where you want to go. It happened to us twice out of three taxis we took.

Finally, try to avoid those taxis waiting at hotel's entrances. They will try to charge you more, just for the only reason of being a tourist and staying at a hotel. Just walk a couple of minutes away from the hotel and you'll be able to find one almost everywhere.

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