Jordan Travel News

During a visit to the Citadel yesterday, accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Rania and several officials, the King underlined the need to preserve the capital's ancient heritage, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

JERASH, Jordan: This country's great archeological wonder is, of course, Petra, the ancient city carved out of the desert rock.

Travel agents with clients looking to explore the Mediterranean region in the coming year have a number of new hotels and tour packages to consider.

Many Jordanians are planning to spend the Eid Al Adha holiday outside the Kingdom, foregoing local resorts for destinations in Egypt and Lebanon, travel agents said on Thursday.

Jordanians have a negative view of women working in the tourism and IT sectors, according to a study released on Monday.

Day 1 : After a late lunch in the hotel, we were finally able to venture out into Amman - Jordan's capital city.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday in Jordan that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is "indispensable" for the Middle East peace process.

AUSTRIA ITALY Northern Italy lucrative language school consisting of four classrooms and a language laboratory for sale.

Trip: Visits Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Esna, Kom Ombo and Aswan, Egypt, and Madaba, Mount Nebo and Petra, Jordan, and includes four-night Nile cruise aboard the Sonesta, Movenpick or Oberoi vessels.

Black mud and rose-red mountains... Kiran Yadav Posted: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 0044 hrs IST Updated: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 0044 hrs IST : You almost think the aircraft is going to land in the middle of a desert...till it finally touches down on the runway, making the excitement for a dramatic landing fade away instantly.

In this week's reader postcard Jennifer Devon visits the ancient city of Petra in Jordan Petra It was this small Edward Lear painting in Oamaru's Forrester Gallery that started it all.

The King made the remarks during a meeting with visiting British Foreign Minister David Miliband, where they discussed efforts to overcome obstacles that obstruct the launch of Palestinian-Israeli talks.

It's mainly a sour sensation. On the street in Jordan, people ask angrily and sincerely why Jordan ever bothered signing a peace agreement with Israel.

MUSCAT a ' Choice Holidays a ' the leisure division of National Travel and Tourism has announced a number of fixed departure holiday packages to various exciting destinations for the forthcoming Eid Al Adha holidays.

Two Mossad agents entered Jordan with Canadian passports and injected Mash'al with a nerve toxin.

Trip: Land-only tour visits Amman, Jerash, Ajlun, Madaba, Mount Nebo, Petra, Azraq and Al-Hallabat, Jordan, and Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Golan Heights, Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The last leg of the journey to a place nicknamed "Jordan's oil" is an almost two-kilometre-long walk by night through a narrow stone canyon that, in places, is 100 metres deep.

United Arab Emirates: 1 hour, 43 minutes ago Kempinski Hotels is further strengthening its foothold as the leading luxury hotelier in the Middle East and Africa region.

Establish a relationship with your doctor that works for you. See the accompanying comic! The other day while showing my mother pictures from my recent trip to Egypt and Jordan, she said to me, "You know, you never took all these crazy kind of trips before you had RA." She has a point.

Jordan: 1 hour, 33 minutes ago Yousef Al Nowais, the Managing Director of Al Maabar, one of the Abu Dhabi's leading international real estate development companies, has met with Jordan's Prime Minister, Nader Dahabi to discuss the latest developments and progress of Aqaba's Marsa Zayed project.