the Jordan Pass allows you to waive visa fees on arrival and provides free entry to most major attractions, including Wadi Rum, Jerash and, of course, Petra.

The main trail to the Treasury – the rock-hewn tomb hand-carved by the Nabataen civilisation millennia ago – is eerily quiet. Rounding the last bend of Petra’s twisting sandstone canyons, I count no ...

Mutasem Alfarajat, an official Petra tour guide, sighs ... In 2023, Visit Petra recorded 1.1 million visitors to Jordan’s most popular archaeological site; that dropped to 457,000 in 2024.

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a long-lost empire. The Nabataeans, a nomadic Arabic people, began chiselling away at the natural sandstone surroundings ...

The Ministry of Youth on Saturday announced the launch of a package of training programmes.These programmes cover a range of “high-demand” fields, including artificial intelligence, digital marketing, ...