The Dead Sea is a fascinating place. It’s 400 metres below sea level, the lowest point on earth. Its salty water (about 30% salt compared to seawater, which is about 3-4%) makes marine life pretty much non-existent. The amount of water that evaporates from the surface is millions of litres per day, making a...
The population of Jordan spans the western side of the country, from the north above Amman to the south western corner of Aqaba. I was intrigued, then, to hear about the eastern desert castles. A few main roads cut though the northern part of the eastern desert, mainly driven by trucks transporting goods across...
The night was still, the sky fast asleep, and the stars the only other things awake. My friend Jordan and I left the handful of people not sleeping and venture out into the silent desert. We are staying in a Bedouin-like campsite in Wadi Rum, a 720 square metre desert in southern Jordan that...
We had heard that there was a precipitous break in the trail that had to be shimmied over on a skinny rock ledge. Every time we came to a drop off, we would say to each other, “Is this the one?” When we finally came to “the one,” it was pretty obvious: each of...
“Hello, what’s your name?” asks a small voice behind my left hip. I turn around to see a young girl of about nine years old beaming up at me, her large brown eyes twinkling with curiosity. Although she only knows a few practiced phrases in English, she is not dressed in the way I...
I’ve spent many evenings in tents, like most of you probably have, but in Jordan I spent an evening in a Bedouin tent, which is much different. I was staying off the grid in a fantastic eco hotel, the Feynan Ecolodge, in the desert of the Dana Biosphere Reserve, near the border with Israel....
It was my first trip to the Middle East this spring and I wasn’t sure what to expect. So I called upon some of my worldly friends who had been to Jordan for travel advice. Here are some of my favourites and whether I found the advice to be true. “Seriously, do not try...
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