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Come to Jordan for a new adventure in an ancient land. Fun, sun and variety are the hallmarks of a vacation in Jordan. In one country, you can visit 10,000 years old villages where humankind first began experimenting with village life.

You can drive down the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley, and bask in the sun at the lowest spot on earth.

You cam climb through Crusader and Arab castles from the 11th and 12th centuries, You can go back further in time, to the Greco-Roman world of Jerash and cities of the Decapolis, where the splendors of Rome’s frontier provinces live on in the magnificent Roman cities of modern Jordan. Theaters, colonnaded streets, baths, temples, and much more await you in Roman Jordan.

You can trek through the desert and make contact with the Bedouins, the semi-nomadic tent-dwellers who live with their immense herds of goat, sheep and camel throughout the arid regions of the Middle East.

There, you can visit several of the mysterious 8th century AD Islamic desert castles, some of which were so large they were never completed.

You can trace the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and the forces of Prince Faisal through Wadi Rum, the moonscape of modern Jordan.

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You can hop from one black basalt castle to another in northeast Jordan, sampling the fortifier garrisons of the Nabataeans, Romans and Byzantines during the seven centuries after Christ.

You can enter Petra, the awesome city the Nabataean Arabs carved out of the rock of southern Jordan during the tour hundred years before Roman rule.

You can swim sun-bathe and relax in the year-round tropical sun of Aqaba, where skin-divers and snorkels from all over the world converge to dive into a fabulous underwater world of coral, color and fantasy.

Jordan’s hot springs have attracted visitors for at least 2,000 years, ever since herod the Great took the cure at Zerqa Ma’in, now the site of the Middle East’s most modern mineral water health spa.

The variety and beauty of Jordan’s attractions are matched only by its thousands of years old tradition of hospitality.

A modern infrastructure of airports, roads, hotels, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and tourist agencies means your every need will be taken care of for you, while you enjoy the thrills of a trip back into history.

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