Petra Region Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

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About Petra Region

Our Petra Region travel guide brings together a collection of featured boutique and luxury hotels in Petra Region along with a selection of the best travel writing, to help you decide where to go, what to do and how to get there.

Articles About Petra Region

Beyond the Rose-Coloured City: A Trip to Jordan | Kayt Sukel | Jordan | Petra Region

We clamber across the rocks to the foot of the waterfalls, looking for an appropriate spot to lower ourselves into the pools underneath. The Evason Ma’in Hot Springs, at a balmy 38C, are where King Herod (of beheading-John-the-Baptist-and-dancing-...

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Please Don't Stop the Music: A Journey Through Petra | Kayt Sukel | Jordan | Petra Region | Petra

When traveling with children, you have to make a few trade-offs. It’s a necessary evil – trying to travel as you did pre-child is a Sisyphean task that will only kill off any brain cells not destroyed by late nights and endless repeats of CARS, the...

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Walking to Petra | Jeremy Seal | Jordan | Petra Region | Petra

There are exhilarating, sometimes challenging day-long hikes along hillside paths which some local Bedouins

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Petra | Solange Hando | Jordan | Petra Region | Petra

Then there are strange whispers and fleeting shadows, dark-eyed children selling

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Notes From Jordan | Lee Marshall | Jordan | Petra Region | 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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