Wikipedia — Jordan Travel Guide
336 articles about travel to Jordan — destinations, practical guides, culture, nature and traveller Q&A — in your language.
Destinations 140 articles
Umm ar-Rasas
Umm ar-Rasas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site east of Madaba, holds the spectacular St. Stephen's Church mosaic — a second great floor map of the Holy Land's cities — plus a stylite tower and Roman camp ruins. It is quiet …
Read more → DestinationsHadrian's Arch of Jerash
Hadrian's Arch greets every visitor to Jerash — a monumental triumphal gateway of carved limestone built in 129 AD for the emperor's visit, its broken cornice still soaring over the approach road. It frames the hippodro…
Read more → DestinationsAqaba Fort
Aqaba Fort, beside the great flagpole in the city centre, layers Mamluk and Crusader history — a courtyard fort with a small museum, Saladin-era associations and walls that have watched the Red Sea for centuries. Entry …
Read more → DestinationsThe Great Arab Revolt Flagpole
The Great Arab Revolt Flagpole rises 130 metres over Aqaba's waterfront, flying the huge flag of the revolt that liberated the city in 1917 — one of the tallest flagpoles in the world, visible from four countries. It is…
Read more → DestinationsAqaba South Beach
Aqaba's South Beach is the local-favourite shoreline south of the marine park — calm shallows, easy reef snorkelling, simple huts and grill stands, with Saudi mountains across the water. It is far cheaper than resort be…
Read more → DestinationsBerenice Beach
Berenice Beach is a polished private beach club south of Aqaba — pools, sun decks, a reef for snorkelling and a full water-sports menu, with day passes for visitors not staying at its hotel. It is the comfortable way to…
Read more → DestinationsQasr al-Azraq
Qasr al-Azraq is a black-basalt Roman and Umayyad fortress beside the Azraq oasis, famously used as T.E. Lawrence's headquarters in the winter of 1917 — its gateway stone still bears the pivot marks. It is an easy stop …
Read more → DestinationsQasr al-Hallabat
Qasr al-Hallabat is one of the most extensively restored Umayyad desert palaces — dressed-stone walls, a mosque, a bathhouse at Hammam as-Sarah nearby and Greek inscriptions marking its conversion from Roman fort. It is…
Read more → DestinationsQasr Mshatta
Qasr Mshatta is the grandest of the Umayyad desert palaces — a vast unfinished enclosure whose famous carved southern facade was carried off to Berlin's Pergamon Museum, leaving the tripartite gate standing alone in the…
Read more → DestinationsQuseir Amra
Quseir Amra is the small UNESCO-listed bathhouse whose interior frescoes are without rival — dancing figures, wine scenes, and the world's earliest known painted sky on a dome, stars on a blue ceiling. It is the jewel o…
Read more → DestinationsQasr Tuba
Qasr Tuba is the remotest of the desert palaces — a huge unfinished Umayyad enclosure of black basalt walls deep in the eastern steppe, reachable only by rough tracks and usually utterly alone. A 4x4 and local knowledge…
Read more → DestinationsQasr Burqu
Qasr Burqu stands beside a seasonal lake in the northeastern desert — a half-Roman, half-Umayyad basalt fort with a tower, echoing with birds when the water fills, utterly silent when it dries. The track needs a 4x4 and…
Read more →Showing 73–84 of 140 articles — Clear filters
Free Jordan travel guide — destinations, culture, nature, food, holy sites, activities and practical information. jordania-aventura-drivers.com