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 +…
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Bedouin storytelling night in Wadi Rum: how the evening actually works
After dinner at most Wadi Rum camps, the host gathers everyone around the fire and the storytelling begins. Practical guide to what's offer…
The Jordan Pass deep dive: what it covers, when it pays off, and how the visa waiver works
The combined ticket that bundles the visa fee with entry to Petra, Wadi Rum, Jerash, the Citadel, and 40+ other sites — when it actually sa…
Mount Nebo: where Moses saw the Promised Land — and the view is still the point
Seven hundred metres above the Jordan Valley, the summit where Moses is said to have died — and on a clear day you can see the same view he…
The Amman Citadel: 9,000 years of city in a single hilltop walk
Bronze Age fortress, Roman temple, Byzantine basilica, Umayyad palace — and the best view of downtown Amman. The Citadel is a lazy 90-minut…
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…
The RSCN guided conservation tour at Dana: how Jordan saved its biggest reserve
The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature runs guided ecology tours through the Dana Biosphere Reserve — the four climate zones, the…
The C-130 Hercules wreck, Aqaba: a 30-metre military cargo plane scuttled at 16 m for divers
In 2017, the Royal Jordanian Air Force scuttled a decommissioned C-130 Hercules transport plane in Aqaba's Underwater Military Museum. Now …
The Power Station dive, Aqaba: a deep wall with the densest soft-coral cover on the Jordan side
Adjacent to the Aqaba thermal power plant, this site combines a steep reef wall with the warm-water outflow that grows the densest soft-cor…