Wikipedia — Jordan Travel Guide
336 articles about travel to Jordan — destinations, practical guides, culture, nature and traveller Q&A — in your language.
Wadi Bin Hammad
Wadi Bin Hammad is a lush secret canyon near Kerak — a trail descending through hanging gardens, banana terraces and dripping springs into a warm river gorge that feels almost tropical. Allow half a day and wear water s…
Read more → NatureFeynan & the Wadi Araba Desert
Feynan, in the western desert below Dana, is Jordan's eco-tourism heart — a candle-lit lodge with no electricity, Bedouin coffee, copper-age mining ruins and the darkest night skies in the Kingdom. It is a designated to…
Read more → NatureWadi Ghuweir
Wadi Ghuweir, west of Shobak, is widely called Jordan's most beautiful canyon walk — a cool river gorge with hanging gardens, waterfalls and sheer sandstone walls on a route linked to the Jordan Trail. It runs spring to…
Read more → NatureBirdwatching in Jordan
Jordan sits squarely on one of the world's great bird corridors, the Rift Valley–Red Sea flyway, making birdwatching in Jordan an outstanding year-round pursuit. Roughly 1.5 million migratory soaring birds pass through …
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Jordan's protected areas are managed largely by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN), founded in 1966 to protect wildlife and reintroduce endangered species. The first reserve, Shaumari Wildlife Reser…
Read more → NatureThe Rift Valley–Red Sea Flyway
The Rift Valley–Red Sea flyway is the second most important migration route in the world for soaring birds, after the Western Palearctic corridor. An estimated 1.5 million migratory birds move along it every year, funne…
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The Azraq Wetland Reserve, established in 1978 and covering about 12 square kilometres in the eastern desert, is Jordan's only wetland reserve and a vital oasis on the migration route. Around 350 bird species have been …
Read more → NatureBirding in Dana Biosphere Reserve
The Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan's largest nature reserve at around 320 square kilometres, protects a dramatic sequence of habitats from Mediterranean woodland down to desert. It is a globally important bird area with…
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Shaumari Wildlife Reserve, established in 1975 as Jordan's first reserve, was created to breed endangered species in their natural habitat. It is famous for reintroducing the Arabian oryx, once extinct in the wild, alon…
Read more → NatureBirding in the Ajloun Highlands
The Ajloun Forest Reserve (13 square kilometres, 1988) protects some of Jordan's best oak and pistachio woodland, and with the castle it forms the north's richest birdwatching area. Look for the Syrian serin, short-toed…
Read more → NatureBirding in the Dibeen Forest
The Dibeen Forest Reserve (protected since 2004) shelters Aleppo pine and evergreen oak in one of the driest places on Earth to hold such woodland. It is an excellent birdwatching in Jordan site for woodland species suc…
Read more → NatureBirding in the Wadi Mujib
The Wadi Mujib Biosphere Reserve, draining into the Dead Sea, mixes deep canyons, freshwater springs and desert with exceptional bird variety. Raptors ride the thermals along the canyon walls, while scrub holds wheatear…
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