After spending a few hours on top of one of Amman's seven hills at the Citadel, we drove into the valley and go...

Citadel: a fortress that provides security and protection for a city. One of Amman's oldest sites is its citadel at...

Just the name Petra alone evokes magic, like Xanadu, Shangri-La, or Timbuktu. It's the boutonniere of the Middle East, a shimmering, il...

We spent one day in Jordan with the full tour group of 90 people on a trip to the famed and mysterious city of Petra. We left early becaus...

Jordan is not a very large country. I got perspective by superimposing it over my home state of Utah. Utah comprises 84,899 square miles t...

Like any large city, Amman has a lot of interesting places to eat, places where Bob would love to wander in and point at tasty menu pictur...

After stopping at the Dead Sea, our next destination was another famous body of water, the supposed "baptism of Christ site" on ...

We had split off from our Fun-for-Less Tour, booking our own earlier flight to Amman and hiring a private guide, so that we could cover ...

Mount Nebo, a 11,929-foot massif at the southernmost end of Utah's Wasatch Range, looms over Nephi, Utah, a town thirty miles away from...

The third country in our Middle Eastern Adventure Triumvirate was Jordan, a country with an ancient history but only recognized as a state...