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Jordan - Where to go?

Amman	The capital since 1921, Amman contains about one-third of the population. It was formerly the Ammonite capital of Rabbath-Ammon and later the Graeco-Roman city of Philadelphia. Often referred to as the ‘white city’, Amman was originally, like Rome, built on seven hills which still form its natural focal points. > read more
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Jerash	Within the remaining city walls, archeologists have found the ruins of settlements dating back to the Neolithic Age, indicating human occupation of this location for more than 6500 years. > read more
Umm Qais	Umm Qais, situated 110 km north of Amman on a broad promontory 378 meters above sea level with a magnificent view over the Yarmouk River, the Golan Heights, and Lake Tiberias, this town was known as Gadara. > read more
Dead Sea
Petra
Aqaba	Take time off from the sun and fun and learn about the resort’s history, which dates back to the fourth millennium BC. > read more
Mount Nebo
Madaba
Desert Castles	Scattered throughout the black basalt desert, east of Amman, the Desert Castles stand as a testament to the flourishing beginnings of Islamic-Arab civilization. > read more
Baptism Site
Pella	Magnificently set in a fold of the hills that rise from the Jordan Valley 78 km north of Amman, Pella; known in Arabic as Tabaqat Fahl > read more
Iraq Al-Amir	Located near the narrow fertile valley of Wadi Essair, a contrast to the bare, treeless plateau around Amman to the East. > read more
Mukawir
Umm El-Jimal
Kerak
Ajloun
Wadi Rum	Rum the magnificent... vast echoing and Godlike... a processional way greater than imagination... the crimson sunset burned on its stupendous cliffs and slanted ladders of hazy fire down its walled avenue. > read more
Jebel Baqer	"Nothing could be more beautiful than the Gulf of 'Aqaba, gleaming through its fringe of palm-trees, as we left the fort, like a placid lake - an eye, rather, of the deepest blue, eye-lashed with palms, and eye-lidded with the Arabian mountains." > read more

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