Jordan

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t ¦ eserts of stone that distort distance, 1- J canyons that plunge into endless abysses, pristine-white mosques decorated with arabesques, gloomy Crusader castles that keep watch over nothing, ghost towns that rise up behind impervious walls, and precipitous mountains, where long-ago biblical stories come back to life Jordán was 'invented' at a diplomatic round-table only fifty years ago, and yet it is one the oldest countries in the world, where geology and the history of man have left behind important traces, in many aspects still mysterious. Petra, the "rose-red city half as old as Time," chiseled out of the rock by the ancient Nabateans, is now famous throughout the world, but around Petra, the visitor has a little-known and unspoiled land to discover. It features everything: the ruins of the cities of the Román Decapolis, the blue waters of Aqaba and the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the eerie trench of the Dead Sea and the surreal boulders of Wadi Rum, where Lawrence of Arabia... Tovább

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t ¦ eserts of stone that distort distance, 1- J canyons that plunge into endless abysses, pristine-white mosques decorated with arabesques, gloomy Crusader castles that keep watch over nothing, ghost towns that rise up behind impervious walls, and precipitous mountains, where long-ago biblical stories come back to life Jordán was 'invented' at a diplomatic round-table only fifty years ago, and yet it is one the oldest countries in the world, where geology and the history of man have left behind important traces, in many aspects still mysterious. Petra, the "rose-red city half as old as Time," chiseled out of the rock by the ancient Nabateans, is now famous throughout the world, but around Petra, the visitor has a little-known and unspoiled land to discover. It features everything: the ruins of the cities of the Román Decapolis, the blue waters of Aqaba and the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the eerie trench of the Dead Sea and the surreal boulders of Wadi Rum, where Lawrence of Arabia experienced his epic adventure - and much more. The soul of this intriguing country resides in the nomadic Bedouins, the keepers of customs thousands of years old that elsewhere the Arab world has been unable to preserve. Though today this land, fínally at peace after decades of war, looks out onto the strife-filled Middle East, it is alsó full of great magic uniquely its own: it stands ready to shape for itself a future in keeping with its noble and historic past. Vissza