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Jordan's essentials in eight easy-going questions. Whatever your age, you can join in and pick up something new along the way.
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Amman is the biggest city in Jordan as well as its capital. It was first built on seven hills, but today it has grown across more than 19 of them, so getting around the city often means going steeply up and down.
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About 2,000 years ago, the Nabataeans carved Petra's grand fronts out of the sandstone cliffs, whose pinkish colour gave it the nickname 'Rose City'. Visitors still reach the Treasury through the Siq, a winding gorge that is only 3 to 4 metres wide in places, and in 2007 Petra was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
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Jordan is in western Asia, in the region often called the Middle East, at a crossroads between Asia, Africa and Europe. Much of the east of the country is dry desert, and less than 2 percent of Jordan is covered by forest.
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The name mansaf comes from a word for a large tray, and it is served at weddings, when a baby is born and to honour a guest. In the traditional Bedouin style, everyone stands around the platter, keeps their left hand behind their back and eats with the right hand.
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Filmmakers love Wadi Rum's red sand and towering rocks, and it stood in for the surface of Mars in 'The Martian' in 2015. Scenes for other big space adventures, such as 'Dune: Part Two', were filmed in the valley too.
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The Bedouin call their tent 'bayt al-shar', which means 'house of hair'. Inside, woven curtains divide it into separate spaces with rugs on the floor: one where guests are welcomed, one for the family and one for cooking.
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The waters near Aqaba are rich in coral and colourful fish, with more than 30 main diving spots close to the city. About 500 kinds of fish live in these waters, and in summer even whale sharks, the biggest fish in the world, swim by.
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The Dead Sea is almost ten times as salty as the ocean, so the water is heavy enough to hold you up without any effort. In places it is about 300 metres deep, and its shore is the lowest dry land on Earth.
Photo: لا روسا, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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