Jordan Travel News

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.

According to the statement, Jordan Motorsport, the organisers and managers of the FIA Jordan Rally MERC, has chosen the 'party' hub of its capital city, Abdoun, due to its strategy of taking motorsport to the masses.

I'm in Jordan riding Arabian horses in the Wadi Rum desert with Bedouins, visiting Petra, snorkeling in Aqaba, interviewing HRH Princess Alia at the Royal Stables and more.

Over the course of this past summer, I was mistaken for English by the English, French by the French and Arab by the Arabs.

AMMAN: The Jordanian government on Sunday announced that it was asking the US authorities for information about a Jordanian teenager, Hosam Smadi, who was charged on Friday with attempt to blow up a 60-story tower in Dallas, Texas.

In an interview with The Jordan Times on Saturday, the father of two boys and four girls said he was contacted on Friday by some of his son's friends informing him that his other son, Hussein, 18, was also arrested two hours after the arrest of Hosam, stressing that his two sons have nothing to do with terror or Al Qaeda.

Jordan's reputation as a land of magical contrasts is heightened by the arrival of springtime, and Six Continents Hotels is offering visitors great value ways to discover the country's historical and natural attractions at this time of year.

Do u know? Petra is now among the new wonders of the World, its beauty and historical information will never let one to refrain from visiting it at least once in their lifetime.

"We have many sites, but they are all protected by the Department of Antiquities," he replies over a cup of Arabic coffee.

We have a one-week window of opportunity to visit Jordan. We're not sure whether we should base ourselves in one place or try to move around the country a bit to see more of what it has to offer.

This week, the Petra Region Tourism Authority , a new body to manage the ancient city, will embark on its mission.