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11 Reviews Al-Balad, or the The Town, is the older part of Amman to makes up the core of the city. “Older part” should not be taken to mean mediaeval or Ottoman. This is a thoroughly modern section of the town,...
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16 Reviews In November 2012, I moved around by public transportation (not even by taxi) in Amman. There are big buses (for cc.50 persons, with line numbers and sometimes even marked bus stops) and small buses...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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,...
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5 Reviews and 284 Opinions The Four Seasons Hotel in Amman is definitely fit for a king (or queen). An Arab sheikh would like...
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69 Reviews The "Treasury" was built some time between 100 BC to 200 AD. It is 40m high and is adorned by a 3.5m high urn which people once believed to have hidden the wealth of the Nabateans - hence the name,...
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45 Reviews Continuing from the Royal Tombs through the Collanaded Street to Qasr al-Bint al-Faroun (Castle of the Pharoah's Daughter, the only free standing structure in Petra) and then a further one half hour...
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26 Reviews I was disappointed about the condition of horses, camels and donkeys at Petra, during our stay the horses and donkeys were never watered or fed they were made to gallop on slippery surfaces and the...
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61 Reviews What? Almost a mile long, the Siq is the main tourist route into Petra. The winding tunnel is actually not a tunnel at all, but a fissure in the rock, widened by tectonic plate movement. Widening and...
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9 Reviews Hello everybody. It was great to read your reviews. I wonder if you could give me some advice, just to sum up what I think I've understood and what I haven't. I'll be flying into Eilat airport, and my...
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