Jerash Travel Blogs

Today we pointed our rental car North, to the ancient Roman city of Jerash. Jerash is so incredibly well preserved, and so expansive, that if you squint your eyes to block out the other tourists, you can almost make believe you are right there with the Romans, two thousand years ago. We had a stell…

I am leaving Syria now. It is with a bit of mixed emotions never before have I gone to a country with so few expectations and been so positively surprised. I will come back to Syria some day in the future - they should change the government and change the politics of the country - but let the …

From Amsterdam to Amman and by bus to the south to Aqaba. Back my national plain from Aqaba to Amman and a flight to Amsterdam. Most beautifull sights are for me Wadi Rum desert and Petra. Stunning ! (in Progress!)

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  Time to go. By now we had gotten a bit hungry, so we asked the driver to stop at a little falafel place of something. “In Jerash” he replied. OK, sure, we'll eat in Jerash. An hour later we arrived in the city of Jerash and the driver drove straight to the parking lot of the archaeol…

Jerash is the most preserved Roman city outside of Rome.  We drove here as part of our tour of northern Jordan on a Friday morning.  Jerash can be a big tourist trap because everybody knows about it and most tours through Jordan stop here.  The city is in astonishingly good cond…

Spent a week in Jordan and this time I got to do more touring than usual.

Jerash, located 48 km north of Amman and nestled in a quiet valley among the mountains of Gilead, is the grandeur of Imperial Rome being one of the largest and most well preserved sites of Roman architecture in the World outside Italy. To this day, its paved and colonnaded streets, soaring hilltop …

Traveling around Jordan, seeing the places and meeting good people. I'll write a proper review when I get more time.

Petra, Wadi Rum and more

30 miles north of Amman is Jerash. It is an old Roman city. It really is famous, and yearly thousands of tourists come there to visit tho old Roman leftovers which a situated there. Or, better put, it is an intire old city there witch churches, a Forum, the Tetrapylon, Hadrian's arch, a circus hipp…

During Christmas and NYE I spend my time in Jordan. It was my first time there and I loved it and didn't want to leave. I took about 500 pictures, but I wont show them all haha. I'll wright my journal later, first it's time to show some pictures!!

The reason why I went to Jordan, was to work at an archaeological fieldschool as part of my education. We lived in a compound in the Northern end of the site. We worked Saturday to Thursday, and then left Jerash Thursday night to experience the rest of Jordan on Friday. Memories from Jerash: * S…

The highlights of Jordan

Travelling from Cairo to Venice, through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.