Jordan

Located in southern Jordan, the historic archaeological site at Petra is one of the country’s most visited places. The amazing ruins are built into a sheer rock face in a mountain range that runs along the Dead Sea and Gulf of Aqaba. If the historians and archaeologists are correct, the Petra ruins were constructed many …

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Jordan occupies one great cut-out of the Arabian Peninsula. Sandwiched between the more tumultuous nations of contested Israel, Iraq and Syria, it’s long been considered one of the rare stable enclaves of the region; one replete with mind-blowing UNESCO World Heritage Sites and totemic cultural hotspots – not least of all the carved ancient Nabatean …

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