Country Info
- Amman
- Capital
- Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
- Currency
- 5,153,378
- Population
- JO
- Country Code
Jordan Slideshow
Jordan
Travel Blogs from Jordan
A restful day
Today I have avoided doing the one thing I should do-school work. I even set the timer so I would know when I needed to put down the book or cross stitch and get busy. None of my tricks worked today! What did I do instead? Took a nap, loaded up ...
Night and Day
... in Greek and represented in plan form, corresponding to a large degree to modern cartography. The Dead Sea, Jordan River, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho and many other places are easily identified. The Jerusalem mini-map is really cool: it ...
What we missed
... . The cravings for a mouthful of a creamy, double chocolate ice-cream creation was getting very strong indeed. We enter Jordan and in an instant our times of denial suddenly end and are replaced by well informed officials, clear signage, warm ...
Petra - City of Stone
Sam: We arrived in Amman, Jordan at about 8:30pm on Thursday and, after a rather hairy taxi ride, one hour later, we made it to the hotel. Given that we only had 1 ˝ days here, our first priority was to book a day trip to Petra for the ...
A wrap-up of the last week
As a teacher, I am always excited for the new year to start but I always forget how much work it is to get ready! Is the memory really that bad? Yup! I was ready as I could be and am thankful that I had a pile of things that I had done last year to ...
The Dead Sea and the Dead Heath(and more on Syria)
So it finally happened. One of us is under the weather! We're not sure how it happened, or when exactly it happened, but suddenly, and without a doubt, it happened. And for once it isn't Jess. Today we flew into Amman after our ...
Happy Solstice Everyone!
Woke to the rocks glowing orange in the sunrise. Beautiful. We had slept in the open around the camp fire ( by choice !) I'm so gald we did cos during the night I woke up to the proverbial blanket of stars, brighter than you could ever imagine and saw ...
DEAD SEA AND MOUNT NEBO
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 ...
Wadi Rum Desert
... him drive us 40 minutes to meet the taxi. Relieved to be in the taxi, we were on our way to make it through the Jordan, Israel, and Egypt borders. Destination...Dahab, Egypt. We walked through the two borders just fine and then had to wait 5 ...