Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hotels in Jordan

Jordan Hotels

Are you Planning to travel to Jordan and searching to book the best hotels in Jordan. Just find the list of Jordan cities below to get the all types of hotels in Jordan with their accommodation prices and facilities which can suits your requirement . Our selection ranges stats from cheap budget hotels to five star luxury hotels. So make an ideas for online reservation and making happy your holiday & reserve your Jordan hotel.
Amman Hotels

Kempinski 150 US$
Regency Palace 105 US$
Grand Palace 86 US$
Toledo 66 US$
Al Dana Plaza 70 US$

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Petra Hotels
Movenpick 205 US$
Golden Tulip Kingsway 70 US$
Movenpick Nabatean Castle 155 US$
Marriott 170 US$
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Al Aqaba Hotels
Movenpick Resort 185 US$
Days Inn Suites 85 US$
Golden Tulip 70 US$
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Pharaohs, the Pyramids & Petra - The Ancient capitals of the Nile, Nabataean Petra and St Catherine’s Monastery.


Cruise - 7 nights. Cairo - 2 nights. Taba - 2 nights. Aqaba - 4 nights.

Day 1 On first day take a flight from London Gatwick to Luxor. Embark on the SS Misr or MS Hamees

Day 2 A morning excursion to the Valley of the Kings and the West Bank visits, Colossi of Memnon and Queen Hatshepsut temple. Sail to Edfu for overnight.

Day 3 See the Edfu temple and agian continue to Aswan for overnight.

Day 4 Next morning take the best view of temple of Philae and High Dam.

Day 5 Get the excursion by road to Abu Simbel (book it in advance). Hire a private boat or felucca to the Elephantine Island Museum opposite the Old Cataract Hotel and Kitchener Island Botanical Gardens.

Day 6 Travel to Edfu and visit the temple at Kom Ombo en route. Overnight in Esna.

Day 7 Sail to Luxor for overnight. and visit the Luxor Temple private reception.

Day 8 Morning excursion to the Karnak with a best sightseeing look of Luxor temples. again Fly to Cairo for two nights at the luxury 5-star Mövenpick Cairo Pyramids.

Day 9 Explore lots of things and see the Pyramids, Great Sphinx and Egyptian Museum.

Day 10 Travel By road across the lonely Sinai Desert. After that spend 2 nights at the 5-star Mövenpick Resort Taba.

Day 11 Visit St. Catherine’s Monastery.

Day 12 Just be ready to travel by boat from Taba for 4 nights at the 5-star Mövenpick Resort Aqaba.

Day 13 At leisure.

Day 14 Visit to the Nabataean city of Petra for a full-day .

Day 15 An afternoon excursion with half-an-hour 4-wheel trip by road to Wadi Rum. Great dinner in a Bedouin tent with local musicians

Day 16 Morning just prepare to get return flight from Aqaba to Gatwick.



Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Jordan Travel Guide - Tourism of Jordan, Travel to Jordan

About Jordan

The Jordan is an beautiful place to travel, It is an Arab country in Southwest Asia and the official name of this is Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, It covers the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. It shares borders with Iraq to the north-east, Israel to the west, Syria to the north, and the east and south to Saudi Arabia. It have the area of the Dead Sea with Israel, and the coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba with Israel. The Much of Jordan is have the sandy desert, particularly the Arabian Desert. Here you can enjoy the hot sun at day time and cool nights with open sky.

Jordan Travel Guide

Here we are with the all Jordan tourism information and travel guide which includes facts, travel maps, history of Jordan, Climate, culture, Places to view, sightseeings and tourist destinations, hotel accommodation and transport facility in Jordan. The source with travel guide to Jordan, featuring up-to-date info about travel places, tourist attractions, cheap flights, best hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, nightlife, travel tips and more.

History and culture of Jordan

The history of Jordan has seen ancient eastern civilizations as the Babylonian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, Akkadian, and Persian empires. Jordon was the part of Pharaonic Egypt, and spawned the native Nabatean civilization, and got the rich archaeological in inheritance with Petra. The western Cultures also left their mark, such as the Roman, Macedonian, Byzantine, and Ottoman Turkish empires. Since the 17th century the Jordon has been under the people and culture of Arabs and Muslim, with the exception of a brief period under British rule.


Religion in Jordan

The Jordan population have around of 89% Muslims, 11% are the Christian ( with major disciple of Greek Orthodox, but some Greek and Coptic Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations), and 2% (several small Shia Muslim and Druze populations)



Jordan Tourism

The Jordan is geography offered attractive tourism destination and sighseeings with a lots of place to visit and the activities to do which include seeing desert castles, numerous ancient places, and beautiful natural views to its cultural and traditional sites. The best known attractions include:

* Ancient sightseeing
o Petra in Ma'an, the home of the Nabateans, The huge rocks are colorful, mostly pink, is a complete city carved in a mountain and the entrance to the ancient city is through a 1.25 km narrow gorge in the mountain — called the Siq.
o Ajlun, This very popular for the Al-Rabad Castle.
o Jerash, This place is famous for its ancient Roman architecture, which includes the Roman theaters, colonnaded streets, arches,and the Oval Plaza.
o Amman have the best Roman theater, with some of the unique and old museums, where the tourist can find remains of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
o Al Karak offers an old castle from the times of Salah al-Din, called as Al-Karak Castle.

Place of tourist destinations which are religious places.
o Madaba, well known for its mosaics, popular of the places like
+ The Madaba Map.
+ The River Jordan, where Jesus christ of Nazareth was baptized, by John the Baptist.
+ Mount Nebo

Seaside
o The Dead Sea -
o Aqaba is a shore's town of the Gulf of Aqaba with lots of luxury and budget hotels, shopping centers and place to make activities of water sports.

Other sightseeing in Jordan
o Wadi Rum is a desert with may big mountains and hills in south of Jordan. Famous for sports activities such as rock-climbing.
o Fuheis, an ancient town with beautiful places to see around 20 minutes north-west of Amman.
o Mahis, A religious place, and wonderful landscape.
o Al-Omwia's Islamic design Palace in the north east of Jordan.
o MUKAWIR - The hilltop stronghold of Herod the Great.
o UMM AL-JIMAL - the so-called "Black Gem of the Desert" – was once a town on the margins of the Decapolis.
o Shobak - The place reminds the former Crusader glory is Shobak Castle, less than an hour north of Petra.
o Qasir amra - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best preserved monuments


Culture of Jordan

The Jordan's share the multi-culture with the many language, faiths, traditiion, beliefs, ethnicities is Arab as the Kingdom is in the heart of Southwest Asia.The people are of various regions come to settle here from different place of world, like Circassians and Chechens, Islamic, Roman, Christians.

Climate


The November to April gives rainy season and very dry weather for the rest of the year. With hot, uniform summers and cool, dry, variable winters.
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