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You might start off with the Google index of sites on travel in Jordan at Google Directory - Regional > Middle East > Jordan > Travel and Tourism. A very useful list (this site isn't included yet, but you never know!). Photos of Jordan can be found at http://www.pbase.com/mansour_mouasher which is a wonderful collection of photos! http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/jordan.htm gives a lot of factual information about Jordan, but I was both amused and indignant to see that they have put a direct hotlink to my page here with the map of Bedouin tribes, with no acknowledgement or even informing me! This seems to me downright cheeky, and I am wondering if they have done this for the other sites as well. An invaluable source of information for the independent traveller is the Middle Eastern Branch of the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree: http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=18 The Rough Guide to Jordan is certainly the best going at the moment. Its writer, Matthew Teller, knows Arab culture very well indeed, and is becoming known as THE authority on Jordan in Britain. His website is at www.matthewteller.com The 2006 edition is a veritable encyclopedia of Jordan and the background chapters at the end are well worth a leisurely reading. The new edition (2006) of the Lonely Planet Guide to Jordan is also pretty good. It is very noticeably far better than the previous edition. Don't forget the Jordan Tourist Board at http://www.see-jordan.com/index.html They are usually very helpful and will reply rapidly to your questions by email to jtb@nets.com.jo. They also have an office in New York, their email address there is see-jordan@aol.com The Jordan Embassy in Japan has a very informative website at http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/mc/jor-emb/index.html For hotel booking you can look at www.hotelcity.com/jordan/ (If you are interested in any hotel named on this site, it is usually better for you to book directly with them) The official Jordanian government site is http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo. There is another official site at http://www.kingabdullah.jo . Admirers of Queen Rania might like to look at http://www.queenrania.jo You can find factual information about the country at http://www.Aqaba.com - a website which actually seems more useful for this than for the information about Aqaba itself, which is rather lacking in detail. Economic information and more factual information about Aqaba can be found in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority website www.aqabazone.com or by sending an email to aseza-inv@nic.nets.jo. This is the place to find information about documents needed for importing/exporting vehicles to Jordan from/to Egypt or the Arab countries to the south. Anybody interested in the latest local news or in the weather forecast might like to look at http://www.jordantimes.com or at http://cnn.com/WEATHER/me/Jordan/AmmanOJAM.html where you can find the times of sunrise and sunset. Weather statistics can be found at http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/city.php3?c=JO&refer= There is also a link for the weather and sunset times on the index page here of this site. The official site of the Jordan Meteorological Department is http://www.jmd.gov.jo/. You might also look at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=11 which is a good site for sunrise/sunset times, and for linking the time in Jordan with the times in other cities. There is a bit of everything on http://www.arabia.com/jordan/english/ (it's a pity the discussions aren't followed more). A similar site is http://star.arabia.com and more general information on Jordan can be found at http://www.1stjordan.net There is rather a lot of advertising on this site, but nothing is free, after all! A couple of interesting websites for those wanting to visit Wadi Rum are www.bedouinroads.com and www.rumguides.com. These Bedouin guides specialise in adventure tours and can take you a long way into the desert, hiking, camel trekking or scrambling in the mountains. They are also climbing guides. Some Jordanian guides have websites at http://jor_guide.tripod.com (Bashar al Twal in Madaba) and http://www.aodeh.de/index.htm (Aouda Abdilla in Wadi Rum). Very different styles of websites, but all of them interesting. If you are interested in adventure tourism or the outdoors in Jordan you shouldn't miss Wilfried Colonna's website at www.desertguides.com. A great deal of advice for climbers, some pages on horses, and many many beautiful photos. An essential site for lovers of nature and the outdoors is the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature website at www.rscn.org.jo. This site is very complete and gives full information on visiting the Nature Reserves. A relatively new site is www.jordanflora.com, some fascinating photos and information. I owe thanks to
several people who have very kindly allowed me to use
photos of Jordan from their websites at and especially to Todd Bolen of www.bibleplaces.com whose photos are the "making" of a number of pages here. Patrick has a very nice site on Jordan with lots of helpful information as well as photos at http://www.travelchat.be/jordan.html and Joost's site at http://www.dewall.nl/jordan/jordan1.htm is highly recommended also for the same reasons. A fascinating site about the Bedouin in Jordan is http://www.acacialand.com. There is not much factual information, but if you are interested in the subject, you will find a lot of reading material here.
I am deeply grateful to all the people who have kindly allowed me to use some of their beautiful photos of Jordan (I have included their sites in the "Links") and also to Charl al Twal for all of his help, suggestions and support.My gratitude also goes to the various people who have taken the time to read and make suggestions on the text and especially to Cord. This is as much his website as mine, for certain it would have been very different and much less attractive without him. I hope he knows how much he helped me with constructive criticism and advice, not to mention his explanations about things like HTML! I must thank the Jordan Tourist Board, who kindly placed a great number of photos at my disposal. I am most grateful, especially to Nofa Nasser, and I should like to thank her very much for her kindness and cooperation. I should also like to thank Mona al Jamal who helped me a great deal with information on Jordan before she left. The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature has consistently been a great support. My thanks to the Woolwine-Moen Group at http://www.graphicmaps.com for the small map of Jordan and to the University of Texas Map Library for the large one. Very grateful thanks also to Wilfried Colonna and to Bernard Domenech who have allowed me to use material from their forthcoming book on climbing and hiking in Jordan, acknowledged in detail where applicable. Their maps are incomparable!
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