Wadi Rum-People

We drove from King's Highway to enter Wadi Rum. At the visitor center we met the Bedouins who run the camps and brought us to their small Bedouin village. When waiting there for their truck to pick us up to the campsite, we saw children running on the street without shoes. Later I was told that the Bedouins in this village, around 2000 people, are all relatives. A family from Saudi Arabia settled here long long ago and since then has grown numerous generations at this unique desert area.

Wadi Rum-Nature

I heard a lot about the beauty of Wadi Rum but didn't visit the place until recently. It's a remote area in the south of Jordan, where very few public transportation goes there. Friends and I rent a car to go south for visiting this amazing desert and Petra. We spent one night in the Bedouin camps and were amused by the numerous shinning stars on the sky.

Village Folks

I just participated in a charity event for distributing food to the needed people in a small village near the border with Syria. It's nice to get out of Amman to meet some village folks and to view the vast landscape of the desert, where they lead a simple and humble life.

Amman-Street View and Life

Almost everyday of this month,  I walk through Jordan University and take a bus at its main gate to Paris Square, which is near the downtown of Amman. Some interesting scenes on the way are extremely attracting and seduce me to push the button.

Ramadan-Friday Worship

During the beginning of holy Ramadan, I visited a friend who lives at the neighborhood of Jabal Amman. We met at the downtown and saw the police blocking the street in front of the King Hussein Mosque. Hundreds of men gathered here to do their Friday worship. They have to fast and endure the summer heat.

St. George's Church in Madaba

Madaba (مادبا) is near Dead Sea and famous for byzantine-era mosaics. This small city has one of the largest Christian population in Jordan. The must-visit place is the 19th-century Greek Orthodox St. George Church, where on the floor there is the mosaic map of the biblical sites from Egypt to Palestine. Because of it, the church is always full of visitors and believers.

Dead Sea

Dead sea is one of the most popular and famous places to visit in Jordan. It's the world's saltiest lake, which is 8.6 times saltier than the ocean, so no animal is able to survive in it. The Dead Sea has a high density, which makes swimmers and non-swimmers easily floating on it.

Being Jordan for 10 months, I didn't visit this spot until last weekend. Because of some old injury on the leg, I didn't swim but enjoy the nice weather and the beauty of the water. Its surface and shores are 423 meters below sea level, so it's a lot of fun to set the feet on the earth's lowest elevation on land.