Amman, Jordan Travel Blogs

Crossing into Jordan
Nov 14, 2005 (1 photos)

... population are Sunni Muslims. Like Syria, Arabic is the official language; 98% of the population is Arab. Amman (population 1.8 million) is the capital of Jordan. Although there is little to see in Amman, tourists flock there and use it as a base to ...

From Mount Nebo to Bethany
Apr 6, 2008 (22 photos)

... Further along was a barber shop, where I chatted with the Palestinians there as one shaved my beard.  A large percentage of Jordan is composed of Palestinians.  One barber had lived in New York City and Brazil for many years. On two day ...

Crossing the Border
Mar 15, 2008

Leaving the truck, I paid the driver and jumped on a bus into the center of Amman, the capital of Jordan, where I would stay only one night before crossing the border across the West Bank into Jerusalem. One night was enough to walk around the old center ...

A High at the Lowest Point on Earth
Mar 16, 2005 (5 photos)

... needed help. He read my note and pointed me in the right direction then punctuated our exchange with the now familiar, "Welcome to Jordan". Wide-eyed with brows arched I stepped up into an old yellow bus and showing the driver the card I greeted him in ...

The Best Souvenirs
Mar 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... he is mad because I told him that you're a very smart lady - smarter than him!" On my last day in Amman I was looking for a Jordan sticker for my suitcase when I stumbled into a little store down a narrow street. He had it all: King Hussein key chains ...

Visa Geezers..
Sep 5, 2006

Well we're now in Amman, Jordan (This e-mail covers our overall time spent in Amman over a 3 week period so sorry if it's a bit confusing. We have updated it as of today, the 10-10-2006). Our time in Jordan was totally unexpected but the whole visa ...

Prohibition is over
Apr 28, 2008 (5 photos)

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Floating in the Dead Sea and Back to Amman
Nov 10, 2008 (7 photos)

... a lunch overlooking the Dead Sea and browse through their products we got back in our car for the trip back to Amman and our last night in Jordan The next day, as our flight was not until the evening our driver took us for a tour of the city including ...

Welcome to Jordan!
Mar 15, 2005 (11 photos)

... and sophisticated yet tethered tightly to their ancient traditions and bound by strict social mores. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan wears a diadem of dichotomies. The streets were alive with people and polite traffic. A man was carving a rotating ...

Dead Tourist and the Dead Sea
Sep 17, 2006 (4 photos)

Amman, Jordan. Yesterday I went to the Roman amphitheatre where one tourist was killed, and six others wounded about a week and a half ago. There was no indication of what had happened there. I suppose it would not be a huge help to tourism to have a ...

"We can't eat mud Lad!"
May 3, 2008

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Amman - lost in the circular maze
Mar 11, 2006 (17 photos)

... which house a variety of period costumes, weapons and everyday implements used by the settled and nomadic people of the region throughout time. Jordan seems to do some good museums so they are worth a look as they are included in the ticket price for the ...

The Promised Land
Apr 29, 2008 (6 photos)

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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Jan 10, 2005

... . We are doing absolutely fantastic (at least now that he has finally arrived, he missed his plane and I was stranded in rainy Jordan for three days...) We spent the first two days in Amman doing tours of the area. First day was mostly a Roman ruins day ...

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Sep 26, 2002

... , the are still part of the Middle East and maaaaan do they stick together! Jordanian people are lovely and highly recommend Jordan to anyone thinking about travelling through Middle East! Oh by the way, I previously mentioned as a travel tip, that you ...

Just arrived in Jordan
Sep 1, 2005

... it will do a lot of good for my skin and clear it up, and I can buy some mineral products to use whilst we are travelling. Amman/Jordan in general seems to be much more Western and modern than Syria is a funny kind of way, because its still a big dirty ...

Welcome to Jordan!
Jul 10, 2008

We planned to take a bus directly from Nazareth to Amman in Jordan.  We knew that the bus only left three times a week, but no one seemed to know from where.  There was no bus station in Nazareth, just a central bus stop, but people seemed to ...

KFC.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 2, 2005 (2 photos)

Would you Adam and Eve it! We found a KFC in Amman, listed in Lonely Planet guide, but without a location we asked a taxi driver and he knew exactly where it was! Off we went and scoffed our faces on a Chicken Combo meal - LARGE!! Yummy.........Now that we ...

Amman
Nov 13, 2008

... delicious Western food at a slickly decorated restaurant. The change that took place as I was moving from Syria to Jordan happened gradually. The villages on the outskirts looked just like Syrian villages with their infertile lands, stone houses and ...

Amman All Over Again
Nov 16, 2008 (2 photos)

... family who owns the Arab Bank. To me, King's Academy and Darat al-Funun are the prime evidence proving the level of development Jordan has achieved. Rush hour traffic was quite dense, but the tunnels work quite well. If you take the tunnels, you go below ...

Sorry, I'm not into Chicks
May 6, 2007

... the Dead Sea Scrolls.  When the were found the land was Jordanian, now it is in Isreal.  The only scroll that Jordan retains is the copper one, the rest were made out of papyrus.  These scrolls are a treasure map.  Currently there are ...

Leaving Amman
Dec 4, 2007

... sheltered me well. I went to the Embassy again and also had no luck with the visa. Apparently they only give visas to citizens of Jordan. One of the Hajj agencies said they could get me a visa for a huge sum of money but it didnt sound legit plus I dont ...

Eid Vacation
Sep 21, 2009

Word to the wise (and any government officials following this detail oriented blog): I am heading off today with DeVan, Adib, and his from Mo (guess what that's short for) to vaca in Syria. I am super excited and lest people feel nervous I have been ...

The Bird Cage
Apr 2, 2005

... not about to miss this. The din continues as we board the bus and bounce down the bumpy, narrow streets of a quieter, darker Amman than I have seen thus far. The noise doesn't wane as we tumble down the bus stairs and through the door of the hamman. ...

Around Amman
Jul 21, 2008 (7 photos)

A bit here, a bit there

Just Getting There is Half the Fun
Mar 27, 2005

... to another passenger, blah, blah, blah... Let's just chat about the people I've seen and talked to on my way to Jordan. The family of itty bitty individuals who sat to my right on the way over the Atlantic folded and unfolded themselves all night long ...

BBQ Party, Internet Follies, and Blood Tests
Oct 15, 2009 (2 photos)

Monday: Arabic class at the FCC. Second class. Good stuff. Even though it didn't go as planned last week I decided to try walking home again. It's not close but the weather is good, I am not in a rush, and winter approaches so why waste time in a cab? ...

The Pink Ladies and bags
May 31, 2008 (4 photos)

... we could go to the outlet stores. Here's where the "real" shopping happened! There are many companies that make products here in Jordan and then ship them all over the world. Liz has a factory here and so do some others. I found the SAME shirt that ...

I've been here almost two weeks...
Jan 30, 2008

... are nearly two thousand years old. Ahhhhh lets see where this takes us. I should probably start with my new family.  Arriving in Jordan I was unsure where I was going to be living after a few days in a Hotel.  I applied to live in a homestay, ...

Conquering Jordan from north to south...
Apr 16, 2008 (36 photos)

... run and my sister stay to say sorry to the man"   So I guess overall it really is give and take here in Jordan.   p.s. my sister just sat down next to me and told me one of her best friends, who is her ex-boyfriend's best friend, ...