Advantages: More comfortable than you might expect - warm and welcoming hosts
Disadvantages: None - unless of course you don't like desert

Milky Way Camp, Wadi Rum For some reason Ciao were not prepared to accept this under 'hotels' - although in all but the technical sense that is what it is - but are happy for it to be listed as an attraction. Odd. Me and the whole "tent" thing= ... Read review

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I love places like this. by koshkha

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Advantages: It's free, it's en route, you get to wander at will
Disadvantages: None - unless you're not able to make up your own interpretation

Shobak isn’t the kind of place to make the focus of a day out. It’s more the sort of delight you stumble across on the way home. In the late afternoon sun, the walls cast a golden glow from vantage point above the road. An early 12th century Crusader c ... Read review

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I'd have been most disappointed to have missed on a chance to explore the tunnels and the catacombs :o( by Bollinger28

Nice review by mozzie76

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Advantages: It's a crusader castle
Disadvantages: A bit clinical and unatmospheric

...(also rendered in English as Karak from the Arabic Al-Karak) is about 85 miles south of Amman on the Kings Highway. Having found the town , you cannot miss the castle. The town has grown up around the castle, which sits in the mos ... Read review

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When we visited there were hundreds of students wandering around and one group were singing and dancing, all very social. The castle was impressive too. by catsholiday

I'd love to see it, and Krak des Chevaliers even more - but then I am a bit of a castle anorak. Anything built by Pagan the Butler can't be all bad. by torr

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Like many people, I had come to Jordan to see Petra and maybe do a bit of walking. Which is another way of saying: I knew absolutely nothing about this country before I arrived. Of course, I knew where it was and that therefore it would have been cau ... Read review

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An excellent review. John by Coloneljohn

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Advantages: Surprisingly extensive roman remains
Disadvantages: None - unless you like your sites over-commercialised. Facilities are limited.

On our whistle-stop tour of Amman we'd been steered away from the amphitheatre and the nymphaeum on the grounds that "there's better to be seen tomorrow". So we only saw the amphitheatre from high on the citadel hill and the nymphaeum as we wandered past ... Read review

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Excellent review. John by Coloneljohn

Those Romans built a mean ruin, didn't they? Excellent review. by torr

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