Shobak Travel Blogs

The best damn Jordan travel blog. 5 Friends, 3 weeks studying dialect in Amman and 9 days on the road out on the countryside. Coming soon: Wadi Rum, Aqaba, Madaba

Yeah - another chance (actually the last chance) to stop and straighten my legs and back (not that I have super long legs but after 3 hours kept in the car - short people deserves to have a break too!). We have spotted Shobak Castle from afar, when the road going uphill so that we can see…

Several idioms using the word flower and related to something beautiful, playful, nice,.i.e: flower generation, flower child, flowery words, etc. As one quote: "Flowers are happy things." - Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse. For me, flower is one among the greatest God's gifts, their shape and color, their fragrance and stems, their beauty seems to ignore their surrounding. Flowers and green.. that actually what our eyes need other than vitamin A:p

Amazing 9 day trip around Jordan with my younger brother.

On our way to the Dana Nature Reserve, our taxi driver asked if we wanted to stop off at Shobak.  He mentioned it was his home town so he would take us to the castle for free.  Who would pass up that offer?!  :)  The castle, up on a hill (good spot for a castle!), stood out over…

I chose to be obsessed with doors. Subsciously I always tried to pose near a frame or door, or any openings..Quite weird, I know...

Honneymoon 26/08/09 2009