Mt. Nebo, Madaba & the Dead Sea, Jordan

Mt. Nebo, Madaba & the Dead Sea, Jordan

The Christian Holy Place of Mount Nebo is an elevated ridge in Jordan, approximately 817 metres (2,680 ft) above sea level, mentioned in the Bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the...
Amman, Jordan

Amman, Jordan

While the city has never boasted a vast array of Islamic antiquities or history delving back over the centuries like several of its Middle Eastern cousins, Amman is nevertheless an important city of Jordan, especially in the 21st century as the place goes from quiet...
Petra, Jordan

Petra, Jordan

Petra, the breathtaking half-built, half-carved into the rock, fabled “rose-red city, half as old as time”, is a well-known ancient city in the south of the Middle Eastern Arab kingdom of Jordan that is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water...
Wadi Rum, Jordan

Wadi Rum, Jordan

Wadi Rum is a vast, seemingly endless, extraordinarily beautiful red sand desert valley (wadi in Arabic) in the south of the Middle Eastern country of Jordan. The 74,000-hectare region is inscribed as both a mixed natural and cultural UNESCO World Heritage site, one...
Aqaba, Jordan

Aqaba, Jordan

So we’ve made it. Finally. We’ve escaped. We’re free. We’ve been liberated. We are no longer in Egypt. That’s good. We’re in Jordan. That’s even better. This is an extract from our guidebook on travel in Jordan and on the...

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