Dead Sea on a budget: how to do the float as a day-trip from Amman for under 30 JD
Resort hotels are 80–150 JD for a day pass. The public Amman Beach is 20 JD plus 5 JD bus fare. Same lake, same float, same minerals. Pract…
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Showing 1–10 of 56 resultsDead Sea spa resort comparison: which of the nine major hotels actually deserves your booking
Nine resorts, one strip of beach, very different price points and very different experiences. Practical comparison of the major Dead Sea ho…
Karak vs Shobak: comparing the two big Crusader castles on the King Highway
Both built in the 12th century, both held against Saladin until 1188-1189, both sit on the King Highway. Practical comparison of which to v…
Shaumari Wildlife Reserve: where Jordan reintroduced the Arabian oryx in 1978
A 22-square-kilometre fenced reserve near Azraq, founded 1975 by the RSCN, where the Arabian oryx, Persian onager, and Somali ostrich were …
The Irbid archaeology museums: two collections at Yarmouk University, plus Tell Irbid itself
Two of the best regional archaeology museums in Jordan are on a single university campus 70 km north of Amman — the Museum of Jordanian Her…
Jabal Amman: a walk through the hill that built the modern capital
One of Amman's seven hills, never fortified, settled by the Hashemite-era elite from the 1920s. The deepest cluster of early-20th-century r…
Karak Castle: the Crusader stronghold that even Saladin had to siege twice
The 12th-century Crusader fortress that controlled the King's Highway between Jerusalem and Mecca — and held out under Reynald of Châtillon…
The Jordan Bike Trail: 730 km of MTB from Umm Qais to the Red Sea
Launched 2017 alongside the Jordan Trail, the Jordan Bike Trail is the country's first long-distance MTB route — 730 km of gravel + paved +…
The Jordan Trail: 40 days, 8 sections, 675 km from Umm Qais to the Red Sea
Established 2017, the Jordan Trail is a 675 km north-south thru-hike from Umm Qais to the Red Sea, divided into 8 sections that can be walk…
Spring birding at Azraq: a migration stopover for African-Eurasian flyway
March-April brings migrating waterfowl, harriers, eagles, and warblers to the Azraq Wetland — a critical stopover on the African-Eurasian f…
