The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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“The Rough Guide to Jordan” is the essential guide to the Middle East’s most enticing destination. This title features detailed accounts of the best attractions Jordan has to offer, along with the clearest Jordan maps and plans, lift the lid on this fascinatingly diverse country. With expert advice and background, explore the world wonder that is Petra, an ancient city carved from rose-red mountain cliffs, roam the sands of Wadi Rum in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia, and then relax on golden beaches at Aqaba, Jordan’s beautiful Red Sea resort hideaway. You’ll find detailed guidance on getting the best out of a visit to Amman, the buzzing Jordanian capital, as well as Crusader castles and stunningly well preserved Roman cities. Float your cares away on the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth, or take in spectacular views over the Dana biosphere reserve. At every point, the Rough Guide steers you in the right direction to find the best hotels in Jordan, recommended Jordan restaurants, cafes and shops across every price range, giving you clear, balanced reviews and honest, first-hand opinions. This title helps to explore all corners of Jordan with authoritative background on Jordan’s culture and history, the clearest maps of any guide and practical language tips. Make the most of your holiday with “The Rough Guide to Jordan”.
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Review by Kabo for The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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For a recent trip to Jordan I bought all the guidebooks I could find in bookstores, and this one is, by far, the best. Not only does it provide all the necessary, utilitarian information, but it provides great background reading on the history and culture of the country. Much better than the other available books, especially the Lonely Planet.
There was very little we saw that wasn’t extensively and well covered. The author has clearly spent a great deal of time living and travelling through Jordan.
The recommendations for Amman and the most notorious tourist destinations (Petra, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea, Jerash) are uniformly accurate, clear, and useful, but the book also offers plenty of information about less obvious destinations – e.g. small towns along the main roads, always suggesting a good place to stop and have a snack and giving interesting historical details.
This is not only a practical and useful guidebook, but also an essential reference on Jordan for those willing to read or explore more. Very highly recommended.
Review by Shikambu for The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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This is more my style of guide book!! Excellent background information on archeological sites around Jordan with (considering it’s a guide book) great info on Petra! Everything from the King’s Highway to Wadi Rum is covered in thoughtful detail by an author who obviously did his homework. This book really sparks your interest in going to Jordan, and introduces the Bedouin and mainstream Jordanian culture to the reader well. Border crossings, visas, food, health, transportation… it’s all in here. LP and Let’s Go guides should learn a thing or two from this guide! It doesn’t bog itself down with useless information like some other guide books do. Going to Jordan? Get this first!
Review by Stephen Welsh for The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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A detailed and accurate guide to all the main sites in Jordan. The informaton included is up to date and extensive, including chapters on travel, where to eat & stay, health, history, backgrounds on Islam, shopping & the media, along with much advice on local behaviour and attitudes.Whilst in Jordan, I found this guide to be an invaluable tool to getting around and learning about local history and culture.The attention to specific detail is extremely accurate and up to date. A must for any first time traveller to this historic and beautiful country.
Review by Ofer for The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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At the end of 2007, the Rough Guide (published January 2006) and the Lonely Planet (published April 2006) are the only guides to Jordan in English being somehow up to date (the April 2007 insight guide is more a picture book than a guide). We traveled independently in Jordan using a car, and had both. Very soon it became clear to us that the Rough Guide is more detailed and more accurate than the Lonely Planet. It was the one guide we took with us as a default at each stop we made. In Petra, each monument is described in enough detail, without being too long. The Petra chapter in the Lonely Planet is inadequate. The same goes for the famous Madaba map. Nevertheless, in the large Crusader castle of Karak, the Lonely Planet gave a map and devised a detailed tour plan, whereas the Rough Guide had an inadequate description. Also, whereas the Amman restaurants chapter in the Rough Guide is much easier to use, only the Lonely Planet mentions the popular, high quality and good value restaurant of “Al Tawaheen”. For other sites (like the Shobak castle or for hiking), neither guide was good enough. For the multiple hiking possibilities through the gorges descending from the mountains we liked best the older guide (2000) by Itai Haviv (Amazon.com calls him incorrectly Ita) – “Trekking and Canyoning in the Jordanian Dead Sea Rift”. In conclusion – if one buys only a single guide – we suggest the Rough guide, but getting also the other two we mentioned can improve any trip to Jordan.
Review by I. Seyb for The Rough Guide to Jordan (Rough Guide Jordan)
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I bought this guidebook for a March 2008 trip of two weeks of independant travel because Rough Guide is my usual preference–historical information, little towns, etc are as usual, better than the competitors.
In the practical information, however, I encountered problem after problem. For example, the public beach on the Dead Sea that they suggest is suitable for foreigners to swim in, is in fact suitable for foreign MEN to swim in, but they don’t mention that women only go in wearing the full black tent. I went to a particular hotel in Aqaba because they said it had a shuttle to a private beach complex–instead, there was a shuttle to a private pool NEXT TO an ordinary public beach. The author (male) was constantly making suggestions of situations single women would find themselves comfortable in that I found I simply didn’t agree with. And I’m pretty intrepid.
Also, the usual Rough Guide problem of restaurants and sites being marked incorrectly on maps was common–however, in a place like Amman where there are no real addresses to follow, if you turn up at the intersection where the map shows a restaurant to be and it isn’t there, the vague description of it’s location it not sufficient to find it. Normally the pervasive RG map problems don’t bother me too much, but when there’s no official address, you really need the map to be super-accurate.
There’s a new edition coming out in August. They may have done a serious update and all will be well. Usually, though, they just check that the businesses they recommend are still in business and update the prices, so I won’t hold my breath. From what people say who used LP as well, it’s probably not that great, so I suppose I would still use the RG–but be on your guard and keep your sense of humor! I was tearing my hair out through the whole trip…