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The Jerash Festival of Culture & Arts
Each summer the ancient colonnades of Jerash host the Jerash Festival of Culture and Arts, Jordan's major celebration of music, dance and theatre. Performers from across the Arab world fill the Roman theatres with colou…
Read more → CultureBedouin Culture & Hospitality
Bedouin hospitality is legendary in Jordan — offering shade, tea and conversation to strangers is a matter of honour. In Wadi Rum, Bedouin guides carry centuries of desert knowledge, astronomy and song. Accept tea, ask …
Read more → CultureTravelling During Ramadan in Jordan
During Ramadan, Jordanians fast from dawn to sunset, yet the country becomes livelier at night with iftar feasts, bustling bazaars and late gathering. Respectful travellers avoid eating or drinking in public during dayl…
Read more → CultureThe Jordanian Flag & National Day
Jordan's flag carries the four pan-Arab colours — black, white, green and red — with a seven-pointed white star symbolising the nation's seven hills and unity. It echoes the flag of the 1916 Arab Revolt. Independence Da…
Read more → CultureThe Nabataeans: Petra's Architects
The Nabataeans, a nomadic trading people who flourished from the 4th century BC, carved Petra and engineered water systems marvellous enough to sustain a city in the desert. Their control of Frankincense trade routes bu…
Read more → CultureThe Jordan Museum in Amman
The Jordan Museum in Amman is the country's premier cultural institution, housing the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the haunting Ain Ghazal plaster statues (among the oldest human figures) and galleries spanning prehistory t…
Read more → CultureJerash: Deep in Roman Jordan
Jerash flourished under Roman rule as part of the Decapolis, a league of Greek-Roman cities. Its colonnaded streets, extensive theatre and temples were spared the worst of later rebuilding, so the site reads like an out…
Read more → CultureA Brief History of Amman
Amman has been inhabited for millennia, known as Rabbath-Ammon in biblical times and later as Roman Philadelphia. The Citadel hills still hold the ruins of successive civilisations, each layer built atop the last. Today…
Read more → CultureUmayyad Desert Palaces
In the 8th century, Umayyad caliphs built a band of desert palaces and hunting lodges east of Amman as retreats and provincial centres. Their decorative art — frescoes at Quseir Amra, stone carving at Mshatta — is unexp…
Read more → CultureSouthern Cities: Karak, Tafilah & Shobak
South of Amman, the King's Highway threads through Karak, Tafilah and Shobak, lands of crusader castles, terraced green farms and plunging canyon views. These towns feel a world from the capital. Karak's fortress, Tafil…
Read more → CultureRainbow Street
Rainbow Street is Amman's best-loved promenade, lined with cafes, bookshops, craft boutiques and restored stone houses. Its side alleys reveal street art and balconies over the old downtown. Evenings bring live music an…
Read more → CultureJabal al-Lweibdeh
Jabal al-Lweibdeh is the capital's bohemian quarter, a hillside of artists' studios, independent galleries, designer shops and some of the best restaurants in Amman. Its steep lanes are a pleasure to wander. The Jordan …
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