ABOUT US: we've been working and living in Jordan since the mid 1990s and we made Jordan our home for many of those years.
The people are warm and friendly, the weather is wonderful and the countryside breath-taking. So many world-class locations in such a small area -- Wadi Rum, Petra, Jerash, the Baptism site, real desert! Aqaba, the Hijaz railway, Mukawir, the Dead Sea. Share our experience, and be at home in Jordan, even on holiday .
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WHEN IN JORDAN YOU MUST VISIT:
* the best place to meet people in Amman; and there's free wifi! books@cafe
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* Ras al Naqb -- stunning views of the blood red sands of Southern Jordan and fascinating links with the Hijaz railway
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* the doctor!! the dentist!! or an optician!
seriously, the standards are very high and the costs are much, much less than Europe! again email me for details -- see below
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* Mukawir, where John the Baptist was beheaded, after Salome's 'erotic' dance
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* Wild Jordan cafe, off Rainbow Street, stunning eco-friendly design and food
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* Ain Ghazal -- one of the world's oldest Neolithic settlements, where the oldest human statues were found, NE of Amman
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HIDDEN JORDAN Here we feature many corners of Jordan not known to most visitors nor even to many locals!
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Post your questions and comments here. We will try to respond within a few days. We welcome debate and feedback
SO YOU'VE BEEN TO PETRA, AQABA AND WADI RUM AND YOU THINK YOU'VE 'DONE' JORDAN.
WE WANT TO PERSUADE YOU TO COME BACK!
EASYJET makes a second visit very affordable and now we've teamed up with Jordan's leading environmental organisation, RSCN, to offer wonderful value, luxury accommodation, off-the-beaten track in wild Jordan!
Seven-nights for two people, with breakfast, for £495; that's £70 per night, total price, for a couple.
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You start off with two-nights at the Dead Sea (less than an hour from the airport), then choose to visit any or all of:
the Azraq Oasis, the forests of Ajloun, the Dana biosphere, or Saleh's bedouin camp in Wadi Rum.
Click Special Offer tab above for more details!
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Contact Issa below for car-hire from £150 for a week, with free local SIM card and 24-hour English-language support.
Jordan is the perfect setting for a romantic and memorable special holiday: where else on earth do you find so many world class attractions in such stunning scenery?
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to make your dream holiday come true!
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AQABA DIVING -- the best value professional operation in the country; and a great atmosphere for first-timers too!
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FLYING OVER RUM -- ballooning, microlights and ultralights -- a whole new dimension
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-- contact us for special offer
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'HOMING-IN ON JORDAN' BLOG -- COMING SOON
BEYOND JORDAN'S GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF WORLD-CLASS DESTINATIONS (AQABA, RUM AND PETRA), IS LAYER UPON LAYER OF HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, RELIGION AND CULTURE THAT UNDERPINS EVERYTHING WE KNOW AND UNDERSTAND.
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JORDAN'S FERTILE TRIANGLE, the "hilly flanks", above the Dead Sea, where, for the first time ever, human beings separated themselves from other creatures!! Here they ceased hunting and gathering; 9,000 years ago these pre-pottery neolithic settlers cultivated the land and created for themselves the time and space to build up surpluses, to specialise, make art, plan, organise and think. This happened here in Jordan, at Ain Ghazzal and Al Beidha.
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JORDAN'S GREEN TRIANGLE, the network of oases criss-crossing the desert and desert-margins that supported and protected the bedouins and seasonal-herders. Azraq in the East is a true historical oasis; Ajloun is set among the scrubby Mediterranean-type forest of the North; and Dana, suspended on the edge of the escarpment that plunges down through three or four climate zones to the valley way below.
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JORDAN VALLEY TRIANGLE, with the DEAD SEA at its heart, stretching from Umm Qais on the border with Syria to Aqaba on the Red Sea and inland, through Mount Nebo and Umm Ar Rassas, containing Mukawir and Bethany beyond the Jordan, where Jesus was baptised. Key sites for the Abrahamic religions and the whole region is scattered with hundreds of remains of the early Christians, the Romans, the birth of Islam and the crusader battles.
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EASYJET IS OPENING UP JORDAN FOR INDEPENDENT TRAVELLERS.
SINCE EARLY 2011, EASYJET HAS BEEN FLYING FROM THE UK TO JORDAN (for under £150 return, if you book early) -- you can even come for a long weekend!
London Gatwick to Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Arrange your taxi or car hire with Issa -- on this page! free local SIM card during your visit!
And book your apartment at the Dead Sea and/or Aqaba by emailing us: <tudor at jemstone.net>
Our Dead Sea apartment is a short drive from Amman airport -- it's the perfect base for exploring Northern Jordan and enjoying the healthiest bathing and sun-bathing on the planet!
Why not stay in the lowest luxury rented aparment in the world?
COME FOR A LONG WEEKEND!! -- leave London at lunchtime on Thursday and get back around midnight Sunday -- two nights in a private apartment at the Dead Sea; one night in a luxury bedouin tent in Wadi Rum; BARGAIN RATES -- including hire car
ALSO -- we can help you create any kind of holiday you want in Jordan
email: <tudor at jemstone.net>
VISIT JORDAN!! have a look at this great tourist web-site with lots of information and background on Jordan! then come back here and book your holiday apartment!
JORDAN TRIP ADVISOR --
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Issa has a degree in business studies, his father is a professor of Arabic and he's been in the travel business all his working life. Issa will organise the best deals for hotels, car hire (with free local SIM card), guided tours, rented apartments, flights, taxis and tickets. He will take all the tension from your holiday arrangements, solve all your problems and truly make you feel at home in Jordan. To contact Issa
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or phone 00 962 797 583 582
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BED & BREAKFAST IN AMMAN, before you start exploring --on the SW outskirts of the city, near the edge of the Jordan Valley, convenient for everywhere but away from the noise and traffic. Contact Ria in Dutch, English or Arabic
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HIJAZ RAILWAY NEWS
we have ambitious plans for launching a weekly service from Amman to Ma'an and then, on the new branch, to Wadi Rum and Aqaba. Discussions have begun . . .
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if you can offer support or want information
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Issa has a degree in business studies, his father is a professor of Arabic and he's been in the travel business all his working life.