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
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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.
