Best time to visit Jordan: a month-by-month guide for travellers planning a trip
Spring and autumn are the obvious answers, but the deeper question is which sites you want — Petra is good year-round, Wadi Rum is brutal i…
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Showing 41–50 of 56 resultsThe Jordan Pass deep dive: what it covers, when it pays off, and how the visa waiver works
The combined ticket that bundles the visa fee with entry to Petra, Wadi Rum, Jerash, the Citadel, and 40+ other sites — when it actually sa…
Getting around Jordan by JETT bus: routes, fares, and the booking-day reality
Jordan's main intercity bus operator runs the routes that matter — Amman to Petra, Wadi Rum, Aqaba, Jerash. Air-conditioned, reliable, and …
As-Salt: the Ottoman-era city UNESCO inscribed for being decent to its neighbours
Inscribed in 2021 as Al-Salt, The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality — yellow limestone houses with arched windows and frescoed ceili…
Pella (Tabaqat Fahl): the Decapolis city that was already 4,000 years old when the Romans arrived
On the eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley, a tell with continuous occupation from 6,000 BCE to the Mamluk period — Bronze Age temple, R…
Darat al-Funun: the Khalid Shoman Foundation home for Arab contemporary art
Three restored 1920s villas on Jabal al-Lweibdeh — gallery, library, café, and a Byzantine church ruin in the garden. Free entry. The best …
King Hussein Park + the Royal Automobile Museum: a half-day in the biggest green space in Amman
The largest urban park in Amman, with the Royal Automobile Museum (Hashemite-era cars) and the Children's Museum on the same site — a delib…
Jabal Amman: a walk through the hill that built the modern capital
One of Amman's seven hills, never fortified, settled by the Hashemite-era elite from the 1920s. The deepest cluster of early-20th-century r…
Rainbow Street: the half-kilometre walk that contains modern Amman
From the First Circle to Mango Street, the most-walked thoroughfare in Jabal Amman — old residences of King Talal and Zaid ibn Shaker, the …
Umm Qais (Gadara): the Decapolis ruin where you can see four countries
On a 378-metre escarpment above the Yarmouk Gorge, the Greco-Roman city of Gadara survives — basalt columns, an underground mausoleum, and …