Madaba Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Coming into the final stretch of the trip we were faced with two monstrously large day tours. The first day trip after leaving Petra with a 6am wake up call was for the general area between Petra and the city of Madaba.

The day started out with an hour long tour of the ruins of Shobak Castle which is the ruins of a Crusaders castle from ...

So Day 3 in Jordan took me to Madaba, a small city about 40 minutes from Amman. We found a place called the Black Iris Hotel where we found cheap but really nice accommodations, we promised to spread the word about this hotel, so here's my shout out to the Hotel. We met the manager who's this nice and really funny old man and his awesome wife. W...

Madaba, Jordan From Egypt to Jordan... From Lisa: The second half of our Intrepid "Pyramids to Petra" tour took us to the Jordan cities of Aqaba, Petra, Madaba, and Amman. So much history here. From Petra, as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, and the site where Moses' brother Aaron was buried, to Mt. Nebo where Moses' memorial and view of t...

Swam in the Dead Sea today...or rather floated big time! We stopped at a resort and had a huge buffet...especially great when all you are doing is sitting on your rear in a bus the entire day! You could only stay in the sea for a bit because it was so salty that any cuts or scrapes burned. The buoyancy blew me away. You could basically stand up ...

Back on the road, and heading north, Steve and I left the Canadians behind in Petra, and made our way to Madaba. A quaint wee town, only 30 kms from Amman, it's a little bit of a backwater, but peaceful and untouristic because of that. Noted for its excellent Byzantine mosaics, the guide books will tell you that it's a great base for exploring t...