Jordan Travel Guide

Jordan's marquee sight, Petra, is a Nabatean city carved directly into rose-colored sandstone cliffs and reached through a narrow, kilometer-long canyon — reason enough for the trip on its own, with Amman's Roman ruins and Wadi Rum's red-sand desert both an easy add-on.

Best time to visit

March to May, or September to November, for comfortable daytime temperatures for the walking and climbing Petra involves, without summer's desert heat.

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Petra

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Petra's Treasury reveals itself at the end of a kilometer-long canyon, its facade carved directly into rose-colored sandstone by the Nabateans more than 2,000 years ago — and it's only the beginning of a site large enough to fill several days.

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