Jordan River Valley

Into the Hills in North Jordan

January 26th 2006
We left Damascus at a reasonably early time on Friday morning. This was good; the traffic was quiet as it was Friday and we headed off towards where we thought our road towards Swayda lay. Unfortunately this road was not marked on our map and after asking a few people for directions we were completely lost somewhere near the airport. Eventually we found the right road and realised that we had cy ... read more

Middle East » Jordan » North » Amman

For most of its history since independence from British administration in 1946, Jordan was ruled by King HUSSEIN (1953-99). A pragmatic ruler, he successfully navigated competing pressures from the major powers (US, USSR, and UK), various Arab states... ... read more

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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peter sorrosa
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nice photo
very nice photo exivet

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