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This is not a trick question: what does a Christian, Malaysian mother and homeschooler living in Thailand do on her first day experiencing the journey that is Jordan? Why visit the Jordan Archaeological Museum, Citadel Hill, and the Amman Amphitheater of course … and then blog about it with fun photos and everything.

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There are neighborhood mosques everywhere in Amman. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. Many of them are striking and quite beautiful. But there are also some cool churches. Here are some steeples with the Amman cityscape in the background. I found these towards the top of Jebel Ashrafiyeh within blocks of each other and also the Abu Darwish Mosque. I think these speak for themselves.

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I have done many crazy things - but I would have to rate swimming in the dead sea as one of my highlights … I have seen on TV when I was a kid, people reading books as they float in the Dead Sea … but its crazy, you float so high in the water that one can easily sit there and read a book

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Wow, what a great way to spend one’s retirement, seeing the world through a VW Camper with stops all through Jordan, including the city of mosaics known as Madaba. At least that’s the last known location of Gary and Joan who stopped to write and post a photo or three over on their blog Africa Overland 08.

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Getting married? Want to honeymoon someplace spectacularly more memorable than the Magic Kingdom for about the same price? Then how about a couple of weeks exploring the wonders Jordan has to offer? A point well made by a recent post entitled “Honeymooning Outside of the Box” on a blog entitled D.C. NearlyWeds.

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Jordan’s tourism sector is a $2.3 billion industry and makes around 14.5 percent of the country’s GDP, but is set to increase higher as more plush hotels and better infrastructure is put in place. It is with this in mind the Jordan Travel Mart (JTM) was held at the Dead Sea’s high-tech King Hussein Ben Talal Convention Center, 10-12 February, that has proved a unique venue of bringing Jordanian tourism professionals and travel operators from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina for the event - the Jordan Travelmart