Panorama of the Week: The Best Place to Smoke The Hubbly Bubbly?
Filed Under: Sure, the Rock Bar in Petra has great ambiance and a smooth lemon mint shisha, Luigi’s at the Dead Sea Movenpick has impeccable shisha service and adds a nice belly dance, and Al Rasheed in Amman is the ideal place to chill out in the big city.
But when I think “shisha in Jordan,” where will my first memory go? I’ll remember hanging with the guys in the northern Jordanian town of Rasun.
If you ever trouble for what to do on a weeknight in a Jordanian village, get yourself to the corner store for a little shisha and mix it up with some conversation. While the ambiance may not be 5-star, the people probably will be.
Open up the panorama below to get a taste of this experience yourself.
Panorama: Evening Shisha at the Corner Store — Rasun, Jordan
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Note: Shisha (otherwise known as hubbly bubbly, also called nargila) is syrup-flavored tobacco (e.g., lemon mint, green apple, melon) smoked through a water pipe, or hookah. It is common to end dinner or spend an evening with friends smoking shisha. It’s mainly smoked by men, but women also partake depending on the circumstances. Shisha is not an illicit substance, and smoking it will not have you swarmed by Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents.
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March 21st, 2011 at 11:33 am
The men look like they are enjoying there time together. What would be the occasion where women would smoke the Hubbly Bubbly? Thanks for the panorama.
March 21st, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Ummmmmm sisha!
March 22nd, 2011 at 11:20 am
This looks like a really cool place to hang out!
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:20 am
@Kirk: They were. After all, they were hanging out with their pals, as I’m sure they always do.
Regarding the occasions when women might smoke shisha, I’m thinking of two. First, I made a note of seeing quite a few women (from the region and elsewhere) smoking shisha at the Dead Sea Movenpick. And second, more generally, foreign women are often offered the option to smoke as well.
@Andi: So you know shisha?
@Marcello: It was a cool place to hang out. Not conventional by any means, but that’s what made it fun. Here’s another shot, where I’m actually with them, center of smoking attention:
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/photos/picture/5485134904/
March 24th, 2011 at 6:12 am
@Dan: Saw the pic you shared and it looks much cooler! Especially with the shisha coming out of your mouth
March 25th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Seems like a nice place, the one with some belly dancing seems good too!
March 26th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Super cool panorama! Every panorama on your site excites the senses…You can almost hear, touch and smell the scene…
April 3rd, 2011 at 2:38 am
@Sofia: Was down-to-earth for sure. But the other shisha experiences were great, too. Smoking shisha in the cave-like setting of Petra’s Rock Bar and taking a draw while watching a belly dance made me feel like a pasha.
@Sonya: Glad you are enjoying them. Multiple dimensional image to share a multi-dimensional experience.