Amman Travel Guide

 30 Reviews  While Amman does not benefit from the sort of old souq that Damascus does, it does have a few sites of urban ruins that attest to the length of urban settlement in this part of the world. One such site is the amphitheatre, which is characteristic of the Roman structures that can be found across the... 

 14 Reviews  The Dead Sea is famous for being the lowest point on earth, as well as the site at which ancient Biblical scrolls have been found. It is also becoming very popular, recently, as a health resort, both because of the extremely salty water that allows for people to float in the Sea, and for the... 

 25 Reviews  While Hadrian's Arch may be an integral part of the current archeological site, it is obvious that it must have been outside of the whole when Jerash was a vibrant city. Hadrian visited after the city had been founded, and so the arch could not have been part of the walls of Jerash. Those walls are... 

 29 Reviews  Most Middle Eastern countries have a law that requires the presence of a mosque every x number of meters, so it should not be a surprise that there are (1) lots of mosques in Muslim cities; and (2) that some of these are quite large and quite impressive. The Husseini Mosque is one such large and... 

 26 Reviews  Built in 1220 AD during the Ayyubid era, this fortified watchtower was used to monitor the region for Crusader attacks. Although Amman was probably not populated then, or was at most a tiny village, it was still important to have a military presence in the area given the constant threat from the... 

 9 Reviews  Madaba is a small town outside of Amman (about 30km) along the same road that takes you to Mount Nebo. The initial site of it can be a bit disconcerting, as the small town is packed with shops and stores that cater to the busloads of tourists that visit this part of the country. Nevertheless, it... 

 8 Reviews  The Citadel's best preserved structure, the square - now domed - edifice once served as the entrance hall to the Omayyad Palace Complex. It was completed with the rest of the Omayyad buildings in the Citadel, in 720 AD, on the foundation of a Byzantine church, which gave the structure its cruciform... 

 5 Reviews  Next to the Temple of Hercules once stood a colossal statue of a god. Although the specific deity is now unknown, it might well have been Hercules, given that the neighbouring Temple was dedicated to him. Only two fragments of the statue have survived: fingers from the left hand and a knee! These... 

 5 Reviews  The ruins on the top of Mount Nebo include a church from the 4th century and a monastery. The church was built in commemoration of the site of Moses’ burial, and it was enlarged again in the 6th century. When I visited, it was under restoration and was not accessible to the public. What is... 

 5 Reviews  As a member of the Decapolis, or the ten Roman cities of the Middle East, Amman was an important site for the construction of Roman infrastructure. One such example is the Nymphaeum, a now largely destroyed construction that would have been dedicated to nymphs and would have, practically, functioned... 

 5 Reviews  The Citadel's only modern building houses the National Archaeological Museum. Though small, the museum displays an important collection of statues, artefacts and other objects found within the citadel and all over Jordan. The collection comes from various periods dating as far back as 4000 BC... 

 5 Reviews  I realize that this is a bit of a cheating or false tip. It is not really a direction to see a specific site outside of Amman, but rather a suggestion that visitors to the capital, or those on long, rigid tours of the holy sites, take some time to discover the natural beauty of the countryside. My... 

 4 Reviews  The Jordanian Museum of Popular Traditions acts as a sort of National Ethnographical Museum for Jordan. It includes a number of different displays on the artisanship and traditional industries that characterized both the Jordanian and Palestinian people for centuries. Of course, the Museum has a... 

 16 Reviews  Taxis are everywhere. White taxis are like shared rides going to set locations (written in Arabic on the door). You can ask any passer by and they will point you to the right car. Yellow cars are proper taxis. Some have meters, some you just negotiate the fare. To most places in Amman, the fare... 

 12 Reviews  The Queen Alia International Airport is the main gateway to Jordan in general and in the Amman metropolitan area in Particular. The Airport has a spanking new terminal completed in march of 2013 of which was the terminal we boarded off after arriving in amman. The airport currently has three... 

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