Qasr al Kharanah Travel Guide

 MiguelMV Says:  You can also walk some stairs up to the roof, which has been restored and now you can walk around it and have views from the entire structure, as well as from the yard and from the wide horizon. 

 MiguelMV Says:  Most of the rooms have a window or a door to the main yard. This is the place where the inhabitants of the castle used to cook. The way rooms are disposed make experts thing that this castle was not only used for defense, but also for a califal resiednce, specially because... 

 MiguelMV Says:  A walk around the different rooms inside the castle is a nice experience. There are several sized rooms,also baths (as it is a very important thing in arabic culture) distributed in 2 floors around the main and only yard. All that castle is transitable, even the terrace at... 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  There are still many debate about which was the original function of the building. The most widely accepted opinion among scholars is that it was a khan, or inn. If this were true then Qasr al-Kharanah would be the earliest known khan of the Islamic period. 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  The rooms and halls of the upper floor basically repeat the ground plan except for the room on the south side, that is above the main entrance. Stucco discs with stylized plants decorating the upper sections of the some rooms reflect close contact with the art of Iraq or... 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  The courtyard had a basin for collecting rain water at its centre. Originally it was surrounded by a portico supported by arches. In the southeast and southwest corners of the courtyard are stone staircases leading to the upper floor and roof. 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  At the ground floor there is a central courtyard that can be reached from the entrance through the passage which is flanked by the storage halls two dimly lit rooms whoose barrel vault roofs are supported by transverse arches. The open central courtyard is surrounded by... 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  The Qasr al-Kharanah consists of two floors with a square plan, 35 metres on each side. Round buttresses occupy the four corners and semi-circular buttresses occupy the centres od the walls, excepts for the southern wall which has the only entrance to the building. Narrow... 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  The building of Qasr al-Kharanah is well preserved with its original architectural elements, its date and original function are still issues of debate among scholars. And Arabic inscription in black ink and several lines long, was found on the plaster above on of the... 

 MalenaN Says:  I visited Qasr Kharana as part of a tour (only transport) organised from Farah Hotel in Amman. We were three people in the car sharing the price and I paid 13 JD. The places we visited were Qasr Kharana, Qusayr Amra, Qasr al-Azraq and the Wetland Reserve, Hammam Sarah and... 

 MiguelMV Says:  Though it is in the middle of nowhere, it's quite close to one of the main roads in the country, the one that goes from Amman to Al Azraq , and then to both Saudi Arabia's and Irak's bordiers. So if you are going by car take this road east, and drive about 62 kilometres....