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Notes From Jordan | Lee Marshall | Jordan, Petra, Petra

Jordan still has tourist kudos. Tell your friends you're going there, and likely as not they will exclaim "Jordan!" in that tone that's somewhere between surprise and trying to remember where the hell it is.

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Petra | Solange Hando | Jordan, Petra, Petra

Then there are strange whispers and fleeting shadows, dark-eyed children selling ‘Nabataean pottery’ and Bedouin jewellery, small oases where you can rest in the shade and even a nomad tent high up on a hill

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Walking to Petra | Jeremy Seal | Jordan, Petra, Petra

There are exhilarating, sometimes challenging day-long hikes along hillside paths which some local Bedouins – the ones who have not yet acquired pick-up trucks - still use to move their livestock to the summer pastures

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