Places to visit

in Jordan

Petra

Petra, the rose-red city ‘half as old as time,’ is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and a highlight of any trip to Jordan. Petra is a city carved into the Sharah Mountains by the Nabataeans in the 4th century B.Cl...  .

Amman

Amman, the capital city of Jordan, is a modern and bustling place which houses the majority of the country's arts and business facilities. Although most of Amman's architecture is concrete and steel...  .

Jerash

Jerash is located 48 kilometers north of Amman and has been dubbed the 'Pompeii of the East' due to it being one of the worlds' largest and most well-preserved sites of Roman architecture outside of Italy. To this dayl...  .

Umm Qais

Umm Qais, situated 110km north of Amman, was once known as Gadara (meaning fortification). It was one of the most brilliant ancient Greco-Roman cities of the Decapolis and, according to the Biblel...  .

Amra Palace

Qusayr ‘Amra is situated around 28 kilometres from Azraq. It is the best preserved of the desert castles, and probably the most charming. It was built during the reign of the Caliph Walid I (705-715 CE) as a luxurious bath house. The building consists of three long halls with vaulted ceilingsl...  .

Qasr Azraq
 

About 13 kilometres north of the Azraq Junction, on the highway to Iraq, you will find the large black fortress of Qasr al-Azraq. The present form of the castle dates back to the beginning of the 13th century CE. Crafted from local black basalt rockl...  .
 

Qasr Al Tuba

Qasr Al Tuba was designed as a caravanseri along the route linking Syria with Jordan and its first incarnation was during the time of Walid the second (744 AD)l...  .

Qasr Al Harrana

Qasr Al Harrana was built in (710-715 AD) during the reign of Al Waleed bin Abdelmalik and used as a caravanseri. The palace consisted of twol...  .

Qasr Al Hallabat

The Qasr Al Hallabat site comprises a number of separate buildings including a palace (qasr), a mosque, a huge reservoir, 8 cisterns dug into the western slope, an irregularly shaped agricultural enclosure with an elaborate systeml...  .

Qasr Al Mushatta

Just south of Amman, Qasr al-Mushatta offers an excellent example of characteristic Umayyad architecture. The castle is an incomplete square palace with elaborate decoration and vaulted ceilings. The immense brick walls of the complex stretch...  .

Al Qastal

Al Qastal is considered to have once been a roman fort, because of its shape and the assumption that its Arabic name Qastal derived from the Latin word 'Castellum' or small castle. To the north of the qasr is a mosque with a round tower resting on a square base...  .

Umm Al Jimal

Umm Al Jimal ("Mother of Camels") is an extensive black basalt city that lies like a dark encrustation on the flat desert of northern Jordan. The ruins reveal a wide range of structures typical of a modest provincial town that lacked formal urban planning...  .

Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is 75 kilometers long and between 6 and 16 kilometers wide. As its name suggests, it is entirely devoid of plant and animal life. This is because the Dead Sea contains so much salt and other minerals: 350 grams of salt per kilogram of water...  .

Wadi Rum

A journey to Wadi Rum is a journey to another world, where one can escape the worries of everyday life and return to nature and the simple life. In this immense space, man is dwarfed into insignificance. Vast, silent and timeless...  .

Dana Nature Reserve

The Dana Reserve is a system of mountains and wadis, extending from the top of the eastern Rift Valley to desert lowlands of Wadi Araba, an elevation drop of over 1600 metres. It embraces two major bio-geographical zones and four distinct vegetation zones. This condensed variety of landforms and habitats...  .

Al Shaumari Nature Reserve

The Arabian Oryx, a large straight-horned antelope which had been extinct in Jordan since the 1920s, and in the Middle East since 1972, was reintroduced to the Al Shaumari Natural Reserve in 1978.This breeding programme has been a success and Jordan now hosts 170 Arabian Oryx of which more than 130 still live in the reserve...  .

Wadi Al Mujib Nature Reserve

Several endangered species of fauna inhabit this nature reserve as do ibex, Arabian gazelles, leopards, foxes, wild boar and a variety of fish and birds...  .

Aqaba

Aqaba, situated at the northern tip of the Red Sea, is cherished as Jordan's only outlet to the sea. This port city, in south-western Jordan provides a breath of fresh air and the country's only real beach resort to which Jordanians and visitors alike flock in their droves...  .

Madaba

Jordan, though an Islamic nation, has a vibrant and well-preserved Christian heritage. The town of Madaba is still Christian, and within its churches are some superb mosaics...  .

Mount Nebo

 is a very important Christian site, recently visited by the Pope, for it was here, on the edge of a ridge overlooking the Dead Sea, that Moses first caught sight of the Holy Land, having led his people from Sina...  .

Siq Al Barid

 (Little Petra)

A suburb of the main city of Petra, Little Petra provides an atmospheric introduction to Nabataean tomb architecture. The area was once a major caravanserai stop for the Nabataean capital and comes complete with its own mini-Siq...  .

Shobak Castle

Shobak is situated mid-way between Kerak and Petra and 190km south of Amman. It contains a large Crusader Castle, built around 1115 AD which stands as a lonely reminder of former glory...  .

Karak Castle

The magnificent Crusader fortress of Karak soars above its valleys and hills like a great ship riding waves of rock. It was built in 1142 on the remains of earlier citadels which date back to Byzantium times. Karak was made the new capital of the provincel... 
 

Al Hummaima

The name Al Hummaima is derived from the very hot desert caused by reflected heat from the white sand. The Nabataeans used this area as an important caravan station between the 1st century...  .

Pella

(Taqabat Fahl)

Pella, known in Arabic as Taqabat Fahl, is magnificently set in a fold of the hills that rise from the Jordan valley. It is one of the most ancient sites in Jordan and perfectly located, for there is a spring here that issues into a small river and never runs dry. The tell seems to have been continuously...  .