Star Plaza Amman

Shmeisani, P.O. Box 3190 Amman, Jordan

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Lost in Amman

A travel blog entry by leone_and_mike

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Our last day of the tour, we have the whole day free, then our flight back to Cairo at 8:15pm. So the day we could sleep in, but of course we woke about 7am. Went down to breakfast and sat with some of the others, Matt & Sarah had left at 6am for Israel; Julie, Bernadette, Rob & Mike left at 7:30 for their airport dropoff, all heading in different directions. Some of the others left at 8am in bus to travel to Israel (wish we were going!). Damian ...

Mount Nebo & Bethany

A travel blog entry by jocelyinjordan

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... broke out in laughter.

On our ride home I revealed to Nabil that I had never had a fresh fig. He was disturbed by this and although he was obviously fasting, pulled over at one of the fresh fruit stands and bought me a fig to try. Delicious. Then I asked if we could stop somewhere in Amman to buy hamburger buns that I needed for an Iftar I was attending that night. He said he knew just the place. He took ...

Happy Birthday Breakfast!

A travel blog entry by jocelyinjordan

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Nothing beats waking up to warm pancakes and tropicana orange juice on your 26th birthday...in Amman. Thanks to my lovely roommate Zane this is just what I got this morning!

After work I will head to my arabic class (more to come on how funny my ...

Petra

A travel blog entry by richfrohl

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... who live in the area. We had “reading” practice with them (in Arabic) and let them show us their memorization skills (both were under 10 years old and both have memorized a decent amount of the Qur’an).

We headed back to the hotel via the King’s Highway, a path that dates back to pre-biblical times (though recently paved). This route is the route that Moses and his buds used to take to get to various cities in the Middle East. ...

Gerald Does Jerusalem

A travel blog entry by hack8646

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... The Western Wall is one of the walls that was used to support the Second Temple during the time of Roman rule before the Romans destroyed the Temple during the Jewish Revolt. While I am not Jewish, it was a bit of a spiritual experience, just seeing how revered this site was to the Jews there and how this site has been worshipped at for almost 2000 years. After the Western Wall, we went up to the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount is the third holiest site in Islam, containing the ...

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