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Azraq Slideshow
Azraq
Travel Blogs from Azraq, Jordan
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Oryx spotting in Azraq
This is a top pick! ... and expensive saloons hogging the road out of Saudi Arabia! Next entry -> Bosra, Syria Great Brands of the World - Jordan Once again a mobile phone network provider comes to save the day. Umniah is a strange looking and sounding brand that ...
Indiana Jones and T.E. Lawrence
This is a top pick! ... Romans had cut an amphitheatre into the bare rock !!!!! Through another passage, and the there it was, the most impressive site in Jordan. The Monastery. This was huge. So we climbed up the side and stood on top, mooned all of our fellow passengers and ...
Storming The Castle(s)
... all their work, after less than two minutes we were home free and on our way to some desert castles! We started with Qasr Al Azraq, a huge black basalt fortress just outside of town. It was used by Lawrence of Arabia in the early 1900s, and was still in ...
Azraq Oasis
... bus) to catch a service taxi to Jerash. We stopped for a few hours in Jerash to see the Roman ruins - the best in Jordan after Petra if the ticket price is anything to go by. Most of the major public buildings have been restored thanks to French funding ...
Les châteaux du désert
... belle pièce. Le travail de restauration espagnole est de toute beauté. Plusieurs kilomètres plus loin, dans l’oasis d’Al-Azraq, un imposant fort a déjà servi de maison à T.E. Lawrence, l’auteur du célèbre livre Seven Pillars of ...
Desert Castles, Jerash and the Iraqi Border
... It’s kind of like what Mexico is to Canadians….] The desert castles- Qasr Kharaneh, Qasr Azraq and Qusayr Amra- are in the eastern desert of Jordan. The term desert castle is a misnomer for both Qasr Kharaneh and Qusayr Amra, since ...
Desert "Castles"
... are impressive and sophisticated. The reconstructed donkey powered well to feed the baths was interesting! The next stop was Qasr Al-Azraq, which is actually a fort, built out of black basalt rock. It was originally a roman fort, before being used in the ...
Desert Castle's
... to an all-you-can-eat buffet in Azraq for lunch and I was pleased to see cans of beer available for the first time since being in Jordan. However he never warned us it would be 10JD a head for the meal and 3JD for each 330ml can of beer. I'm very glad i ...
2nd Day - Amman City tour, Dessert Castle, Amra
One the second day we we went to see the beautiful castles here in Jordan in Amman City tour, Dessert Castle, ...
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