Driving from Amman to Aqaba can be done quickly over the new desert highway but you can also opt to take the old King’s Highway and see some interesting places along the way. This is what I did with my family during our road trip [read more]
#TBT [ThrowBackThursday] week 40 of 2015. This week, something I remember from my visit to Jordan, 1 of the 52 countries I visited prior to 2015. Jordan was the last new country prior to 2015. I visited it during the Christmas holidays of 2014 and [read more]
Towards the Syrian border in Jordan, north of Amman, you find some astonishing remains from Roman times and an important Muslim castle. The two Roman remains are of the Roman cities Gadara (Umm Qais/Qays) and Gerasa in the modern town of Jarash/Jerash. The Roman ruins [read more]
Jordan’s capital Amman was our base for 5 days, during the family Christmas holidays, of which we planned one day in Amman exploring it. It is a large city and on our list were actually three things to do and see. The citadel and Roman [read more]
Jordan is a great country for a road trip and this is exactly what I did with the family. We were stationed in Amman for 5 days of which one day we did a road trip to the eastern desert castles driving the desert castle [read more]
When we drove to the Dead Sea we saw light above Israel! If this is what Moses saw I can believe he thought this was the Promised Land (see photo just below). During our Christmas holidays we spend two weeks in Jordan of which 3 [read more]
A visit to Petra is probably on everyone’s schedule if visiting Jordan. For me this was not different. Petra is Jordan’s number one place to go, one of the new seven world wonders, a UNESCO World Heritage site. I visited Petra during a family trip [read more]
On a nice sunny afternoon I was sitting on a terrace at the Umm Qais archeological site in north Jordan. When I looked on the menu to choose some local Jordanian mezze my eye fell on the beer list which showed Carakale as a local beer. Being a [read more]
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