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“… the award-winning sustainable tourism and eco-tourism projects, which are helping us to both protect and promote the things that are most precious to us …
… From Yarmouk in the north to the southern mountains of Aqaba, these parks will create wildlife corridors and sanctuaries for endangered plants. They’ll be looked after by local communities, [...]

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Here’s the account of a family returning to the Netherlands after living in Malawi. However, instead of flying, they are drove back by means of Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and finally Rotterdam. Below are some snippets of their journeys through Jordan:

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Signing-up for the inaugural Back Roads Bicycle tour of Jordan with the adventure company Explore, Times Online journalist Vincent Crump describes his 280-mile journey through Jordan. A two-wheeled epic adventure from Amman to Aqaba through the Great Rift Valley that included:

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Yes folks, from nearly halfway around the globe we bring you the best exerpts from tourists blogging about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, be it someone reenacting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or a visitor asking questions about the Jerash Festival – blogJodan.com is here to conveniently summarize the blogosphere of Jordanian Tourism this last week of May 2008.

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Just about everyone visiting the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan these days blogs about it. My job is to bring to you the best and brightest of the “Journeys to Jordan” blogosphere. So grab a cup of coffee, lean back in that boring office chair and share with me in yet another exciting installment of “Experiencing the Journey” … starting with …

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Yeah I know what you’re thinking, my friend went to Jordan and all I got was a URL to his stinking Jordan tourism blog. All the more reason to go there yourself … but until then … here are 3 more persons blogging about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, posting their experiences and sharing their photos so the rest of us can stew in our offices and live vicariously through their journeys:

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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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The Jordanian Society of Travel and Tourism Agents (JSTTA) honored Mr. Nasser Kawar, chairman of the Petra Travel and Tourism Company at a special reception this past week for his services to the Jordanian travel and tourism industry.
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Tourism Mr. Farouq Al Hadidi, JSTTA Chairman Haider Ziyadat and top travel agents [...]

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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

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How about a video of me holding a 20lb rock – unsuccessfully trying to sink myself in the ultra-buoyant dead sea? Hopefully that will be entertaining and educational enough to hold everyone off until I arrive back home sometime late tomorrow night.

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