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Amman, capital of Jordan
Entry containing 2 photos titled: Roman amphitheater, at our favorite "Hashim restaurant"
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Capital City
I arrive in Amman and it's a
sprawling city and luckily enough I have a Hyatt room booked for my three
nights here. A cab driver takes me to the hotel and again tries to get me to
pay 5x more than I should, the people are very nice but I’m over these cab
drivers trying to rip me off. After I check into my amazing … -
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A snowstorm in Jordan
Hello
So here we are in Amman, Jordan, this morning I woke up to some pretty interesting chanting, that sounded like it was coming from a loud speaker outside my bedroom window, I guess it was morning prayer. This afternoon, we headed out to do a little touring of the city; we decided to brave the rain, the sleet and the cold so we could … -
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Freezing in Jordan
Last night we went down to have dinner in the hotel. There were 2 restaurants. The first had one set menu with no choices and the other just had sandwiches and snacks. We asked reception to recommend some nearby restaurants that we could have a good meal with wine or beer. Blank faces. After getting a little narky at them the guy took us outside …
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Successfully sneaking into a citadel
... the amphitheatre and this one is also impressive even though I have seen quite a few in the last 3 weeks. From there I spot the citadel so I start heading that direction. Supposedly the view of the city from up there is quite spectacular. When I'm ...
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From Mount Nebo to Bethany
For a couple of nights, I stayed again in Amman in the center of the city, right under the Citadel, where locals ate the popular tahini kofta plates broiled at Sharazar Restaurant and waited in line at Habibah for sweet cheese knafeh. ...
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Floating In The Dead Sea And Back To Amman.
... The next day, as our flight was not until the evening our driver took us for a tour of the city including museums, the citadel, and an incredible Roman ampitheatre that is still in use for concerts and opera. Finally it was to the airport for a ...
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Amman - lost in the circular maze
... and villas around the place. Apart from a bunch of mosques, about the only other place to visit is The Citadel - perched on the highest hill in town and still sporting a blue domed Audience Hall amongst the excavated ruins of an 8th century ...
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Joyful Jordan
... Jordanian shouted. The sun was now a warm soothing orange and I dropped down on the rocky rubble studded remains of the Citadel, perched on top of one of the many mountains ( Jebels ) in Amman overlooking roman amphitheaters and buzzing streets ...
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Amman All Over Again
... is a lot of congestion and confusion around them. Diana dropped me off at the 2nd circle from where I took a cab to the Citadel. The Citadel was initially constructed by the Romans. In the 8th Century, it was transformed into an Umayyad Palace. The ...
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Sorry, I'm not into Chicks
... bread because God knows we would never find real food in Amman. In fact, there is not much of anything to find in Amman. The Citadel was really the only thing that we wanted to see. Luckily we were heading out the next morning to ...
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$4,000,000 houses and a Starbucks. Seems like home
... beautiful, mosaics are one of the coolest artworks out there, and the map was most certainly impressive. Once in Amman we headed up to the Citadel, which is an ancient ruins site ontop of one of the hills in Amman. After having been to ...
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A Little Fun Before Beginning the Grind
... environment. This place was amazing and it is on top of one of Amman's hills so the view at night was gorgeous, overlooking the Citadel and the downtown area. --- Saturday: This was a lazy day. Lots of nothing happened. I checked out the tiny ...
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Making our way around the Citadel!
... A Street full of columns ran through the complex where ruins of the palace grounds were still visible. Having visited everything around the Citadel, we now hastily walked down the hill in search of our motor coach in which the warmth ...
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