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Amman, the capital of Jordan is the home of many tourist attractions. Aqaba, the lone outlet to sea in Jordan is highly attractive with long stretches of shores and coastal lines. Petra home to red rose city is another grandeur place tourists desire to visit.

Aqaba has many sites dating back to 4,000 BC and is considered as a superb location for archeologists and historians. The medieval valley city named Ayla, ancient fort at Mamluke, World’s oldest church dating back to 3rd century AD and many other medieval period sites are very attractive for tourists.

Amman, the capital city of Jordan has many imposing attracting. The modern thriving city bears many reminiscences of ancient culture and civilizations. Amman spreads over 19 hilly regions containing light colored houses made out of stones and is a typical desert city. International standard restaurants, fashionable boutiques, exquisite minarets, Arabian sweet shops and pavement markets are all amazing attractions in Amman.

King Hussein Mosque built in an Ottoman style at the heart of Amman is a great attraction for all kinds of travelers. The religious enthusiasts throng to this place all through the days in a year.

Petra, the best attractive place in Jordan, is renowned as the most superb location of ruins of ancient red rose city placed perfectly within a deep canyon. It is close to Wadi Musa, literally means the valley of Mosa. The town Wadi Musa is the romantic gateway to the amazing tourist location Pedra. The city is carved into the rock and its great feature is the rock cut monuments. Monumental tombs, decorative structures, temples, arched gateways, carved regions and water channels in Petra are all great attractions for the travelers to Jordan. It is a great experience for the tourists to pass through a long narrow chasm in the rock in Pedra. Al-Khazneh or The Treasury, Petra's most famous monument, has a height of 140 feet and is carved into the solid rock spectacularly.

Jordan is a paardise for the nature lovers with many exciting natural reserves. Dana Nature Reserve is credited with beauty of Rummana mountain. The place is enriched with thick wooded lusting green forests and diverse wildlife. Azraq wetland reserve, Shawmari wildlife resrve and Mujib nature reserve are other scenic attrctions in Jordan. This wildlife park has been treasure of unexplored magnificent bio-diversity. The regions are unpolluted and verdant for nture walks, trekking and mountain skiing.

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