Karak, Jordan Travel Blogs

Great castle, great hotel
Jul 13, 2008 (19 photos)

... .  So we humped our bags through the town and found the Towers Castle Hotel.  More than any other country, Jordan seems to have enacted a lot of changed since our guidebook was published in 2006.  Apparently immediately after the book was ...

Hot Springs Again
Dec 27, 2009 (5 photos)

... near the springs thus allowing us to have an early morning dip before heading to Karnak Castle. To share with you our experience in Jordan I will recount our efforts to get the gas bottle filled. This is one of the more difficult tasks on our trip as the ...

3. Tag Madaba nach Karak und Petra
Oct 5, 2009 (7 photos)

... ich also Mt. Nebo nicht gefunden habe (wie ist nur Moses dahin gekommen???) fahre ich weiter durch die Wüstenlandschaft Richtung Karak. Ich nehme einen Anhalter mit. Den Namen habe ich schon wieder vergessen, aber er ist Polizist (hatte keine Uniform an) ...

8.Tag am Toten Meer
Oct 10, 2009 (14 photos)

... absetzen. Ich bin weiter in den nächsten Canyon gefahren: Wadi Weida'a. Der Canyon liegt an der Strasse von Ghor Mazra'a nach Karak in einer Kurve an der rechten Seite. Es ist ein überraschend "grüner" Canyon, da dort offensichtlich das ganze Jahr über Wasser ...

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-Jig
May 8, 2009 (10 photos)

The Tower Hotel was only a minute's walk from Karak Castle; our morning’s destination. One of the biggest castles in Jordan, Karak Castle had its fair share of tour buses and happy-snappers. The castle was built on the top of a huge hill, with ...

Dead Sea: the lowest point on earth
Aug 21, 2006 (3 photos)

... is going to jump out of the water at any second. Dead Sea has been great, but the heat and flies are relentless..So tomorrow, it's off to Dubai (where it's actually hotter, but hopefully the flies are a little less aggressive). Maa'salama from Jordan.

Can you really read a paper in the Dead Sea?
Nov 18, 2006 (2 photos)

... the vid... (nb. open cuts hurt 9 times more in the dead sea!!) The Dead Sea also marks the border between Israel and Jordan so every 10kms along the coast road I would get to a check point with a couple Toyota pick ups with mounted machine guns on ...

PETRA TO SHOBAK TO KARAK, CRUSADER CASTLES
Feb 11, 2009 (5 photos)

Wednesday, Feb 11 Day 7 in Jordan The wind and cold weather continued through the night, Len put his long johns and socks on, me too! The young Czech couple didn't come in, so they must have made it through the night. The water was cold this ...

Moses, Fortresses, and a Khaled.
Nov 24, 2009 (25 photos)

... according to the Hebrew bible, where Moses first stood and sighted the "promised land".  It offers a striking view of Jordan and, weather permitting, that view extends over the Dead Sea and into Jericho, Palestine, and Israel.  Interesting place ...

Karak Castle
Oct 26, 2007 (15 photos)

... drive by and check it out. Lot's of smoke but buildings here won't burn down as they are all cement. A little history on Karak(or Kerak): It was an ancient Crusader stronghold and is set at the top of the city. Many battles between the Franks and ...

South of Jordan Trip- Part 2 (belated, sorry)
Aug 10, 2008 (40 photos)

... trips of my life, and I had some of the greatest adventures ever. I really hope that someday I can bring all of you to Jordan, because seeing such beauty made me really fall in love with this country. I hope you're all doing well. I know I'm about a ...

Karak - Crusader Era Castle
Jun 11, 2005 (26 photos)

Karak Castle is a massive fortification from the Crusader Era and is only a couple hours outside of Amman. Karak was the castle of the cruel French crusader Renaud de Chatillon portrayed in the recent movie "Kingdom Of Heaven". He was notorious for ...

Car Ride from Wadi Hassa
May 14, 2008 (1 photos)

Here's the long awaited video of sleepy Tim.  If anyone has been on a trip with me before, you've probably seen this a few times.

It's Alive!
Feb 26, 2008

I'm now in Karak to see the crusader castle here, but today was kind of bad out so I decided to take a day trip where it was lower and warmer. Went down to the Wadi Mujib reserve where you can follow a siq for 2km, wading in the water as the canyon ...

Karak
May 1, 2005 (5 photos)

Karak

The Road to Petra
May 1, 2005 (5 photos)

... down the Dead Sea highway towards Karak. The journey was amazing travelling through the Wadi Mujib, a baron and rocky landscape. Karak is a huge we preserved Crusade castle from 1142AD 900m above sea level and site of many battles between The Franks and ...

Madaba - Mt. Nebo - Wadi al-Mujib - Karak
Jul 14, 2007 (12 photos)

... the visit of Mt. Nebo we drove to Kerak. We had a break at the Wadi al-Mujib. The wadi is the Grand Canyon of Jordan - a gaping crack in the plateau. The King's Highway winds in numerous serpentines down to the bottom of the canyon: from 700 m/2296 ft  ...

Crusaders fame. Karak castle
Jun 9, 2006

Karak castle

Bethany, Mt. Nebo, Dead Sea, Wadi Mujib Jordan
Nov 2, 2007

... nonetheless. Next stop is Wadi Mujib. This is pretty much like a canyoneering experience but without the safety equipment! :-) Canyoneering Jordan style. We go up a river all in the rushing water facing upstream. To walk, you have to get your feet ...

Sur la route des rois
May 1, 2005

Voyage de nuit d'Alep à Amman, puis on enchaine plusieurs transports pour pouvoir descendre à Petra via la route des rois. 1 bel arrêt à Kerak et une journée de superbes panoramas

On the bus, off the bus, on the bus...
Mar 1, 2008 (10 photos)

... rushed. I guess this is one of the joys of package tours!   First stop, after a drive along the Kings Highway, was Karak Castle. The weather was doing a four-seasons-in-a-day day for us today and Karak got the foggy season. While this denied us the ...

Karak and Madaba
Oct 4, 2008 (9 photos)

Day 4 in Jordan took me to Karak where the hotel hooked us up with this sweetest old man whose family is from Karak. We were told by the hotel people that if the guards or anybody asked us we were to say that he was family, and one of us was his family and ...