Madaba Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Next, the Dead Sea. Now, I thought that this was something we just had to do because this is what you did in Jordan. But I didn't think it would actually be as remarkable as it was. We spent the night in Madaba (the city of mosaics) at the Black Iris (a very well run budget hotel). We had a fabulous meal at a Lebanese restaurant that was recomme...

Decided to have a lox-key day before our move to Beirut tomorrow. Woke up late... At 1.30pm, one of Diana's students took us to an NGO where his sister works. The NGO was located in one of the less developed parts of the city. Mostly, they concentrate on preparing the poor for the job market, thereby hoping to help them escape poverty through em...

Diana dropped me off at Madaba. First, wondered around the city, getting lost in the process. It feels like a larger version of the Kemerburgaz suburb of Istanbul. I believe this is an average Jordanian city with respect to size and level of development. Still impressive. The average Turkish city would be more developed, but not the average Syri...

After leaving Petra we stopped at a couple of places on the way to Madaba. The first place we stopped was Kerak Crusader Castle. This was on top of a high mountain so it was easy to defend. Parts of the castle were still quite in tack - while other parts were a falling apart. It had a great view of the landscape around that area. Mostly barren w...

First stop in Jordan was Jerash, site of yet another Roman city, this time complete with a hippodrome in which they run chariot races for the tourists. This was one of Ben's most anticipated parts of the holiday, so I was hoping it lived up to his expectations. Thankfully, he enjoyed it, although he was disappointed when the race was aborted pre...

Our last attraction for the day was to see the mosaic Madaba map on the floor of the St Georges Greek Orthodox Church. What we did not expect was that the church service, including a number of Baptisims would be starting as we got there. Apparently our guides had phoned to confirm times but these were not quite accurate. Guides are not permitted...

A *********** my window led me to look at a light flashing in my face. Blurry human like figures danced around in the shadows outside, and I started feeling around for my classes. Putting them on, I was unhappily greeted by the police asking me if I could speak Arabic. When I indicated that I couldn't, one of them muttered that there was no way ...

It was another early start this morning so we had been fairly restrained in the cave bar the previous night although I do recall we were singing at one point! We left Wadi Musa towards Amman, doing a detour via a crusader castle not on our itinerary. This was a bit of a risk as apparently all the tourist coaches are tracked to make sure they're ...