Jordan’s modern capital encompasses the remains many of civilizations – Neolithic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Umayyad and Ottoman, to name a few.

The King’s Highway is one of the oldest trade routes in Jordan–a remarkable fact in the context of this country which lay at the heart of many of the ancient world’s key trade routes.

One of the ancient Decapolis trading cities, Jerash is one of the world’s best-preserved provincial Greco-Roman provincial cities. Its collonnaded streets, baths, theaters, plazas, and arches remain in exceptional condition.

The wealthy Umayyad Caliphs, who used to come to Jordan for leisure and in hunting trips, built some beautiful Castle-like Qasers , “Palaces”, at the heart of the eastern Jordanian desert.

Um Qais is the Biblical Gadara. According to the Bible, it is the place where Jesus cast the devils out from two men into a herd of swine.

Azraq Oasis was a traditional stopping point for both human trade caravans and migratory birds. It is just over an hour’s drive east of Amman, on the busy highway which links Amman to Damascus.

The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) was established by the late King Hussein with the mission of helping to conserve the biodiversity of Jordan and to integrate its conservation programs with socio-economic development in the surrounding communities

With its rich antiquities, Pella is a favorite among archaeologists. Below the site’s main section lies a perennial spring, which bubbles water into the nearby valley

Um ar-Risas is Jordan’s newest World Heritage site, joining UNESCO’s list of Cultural Heritage treasures in 2004.

Dana Nature Reserve is a system of wadis and mountains which extends from the top of the Rift Valley down to the desert lowlands of Wadi Araba. Dana is truly a world of natural tre...

Created as a breeding centre for endangered or locally extinct wildlife, the Shumari Reserve is home to some of the rarest species of animals in the Middle East. In this small 22 K...

Wadi Mujib Nature Reserve; the lowest reserve on earth Bordering the Dead Sea at 400 meters below sea level, the Mujib Nature Reserve surrounds Wadi Mujib, a deep and majestic c...

Ajloun Woodland Reserve is located in the Ajloun Highlands, around the extension of a long valley known as Wadi Ain Zubia (13 square k.m.). It consists of a Mediterranean hill coun...

Dibeen forest is situated just south of the famous Roman city of Jerash, where it cloaks the steep hillsides over an area of some eight square kilometers. Most of the trees are Ale...

With its rich antiquities Pella is a favorite among archaeologists. Below the main section of the site lies a perennial spring, which used to bubble out water to the nearby valley....

Um Al Jimal was built entirely from black basalt from its local surroundings and is considered to be the best preserved of the Hauran towns. In Arabic the name means “Mother of Cam...

About 10 km to the north of Madaba, lies modern Hisban (Greek Esebon, Esbous; Latin Esbus) which is believed to be the biblical “Heshbon”, mentioned over 40 times in the Old Testam...

Salt is about 28 km N/W of Amman. The name as-Salt comes from the Latin origin “Saltus” meaning the Valley of Trees or “ThickForest”. It was the regional capital during the Byzanti...

About 10 km to the N/W of Ajlun overlooking Gilead, lies Tell Mar Elias (Mar Elias in Arabic means Saint Elijah). This site has long been identified with Tishbe, the birth place of...

A string of castles along the mountains overlooking the Great Rift Valley marked the expansion of the Crusader invasion in the 11th and 12th centuries. Karak Castle, overlooking the...

At the head of Wadi Zarqa Ma’in is the waterfall and hot spring called Hamamat Ma’in. It’s sited just under the Herodian fortress of Mukawir, and is believed to be one of the spots...

Now a little-visited area just west of the busy Desert Highway, Humeima (Hawara) was a major Nabatean agricultural and trade-route provisioning settlement made possibly because of ...

A legend, a marvel, a Wonder-with-a-capital-W; Petra is one of the world’s truly unique sites. The capital of the Nabatean trading empire, this city must have been one of the ancient world’s richest cities.

South of Jordan’s capital lies the home of the world’s largest collection of ancient mosaics. An archbishopric during the Byzantine era, Madaba contains historical mosaics most of ...

At over 400m below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on the Earth’s surface. The name “Dead Sea” came from the Greek traveller Pausanias because the water composition allows nothing to live. ..

Aqaba is the only port in Jordan; it has a strategic location, so it has long been inhabited as a trading port. There is a great deal of archaeological evidence for that—the Mamluk...

T.E Lawrence once described the moon-like terrain of Wadi Rum as “vast, echoing and God-like.” This is by no means an overstatement.

Maqdas, Bethany Baptismal Site Biblical archaeologists, working from clues supplied by the Madaba mosaic map, believe this to be the spot where John the Baptist lived and worked, and where Jesus was baptized in the waters of the Jordan River.