Jordan travel guide

Before you go to Jordan

Currency: JOD JD
Emergency number: 911 / 911
Plug type: C, D, F, G, J, B
Tap water: bottled
Tipping: Tipping (baksheesh) is customary: round up taxis and leave ~10% in restaurants if service isn't already added.
Bargaining: Common
eSIM: Available
Card networks: Visa, Mastercard
ATM fees: Typically 3-5 JOD per withdrawal on top of your home-bank fee

Amman Jordan's hilltop capital, layering a Roman citadel and theatre over a buzzing downtown souk, art-filled Jabal Al-Weibdeh and cafe-lined…
Petra / Wadi Musa The rose-red Nabataean city carved into sandstone canyons — Jordan's crown jewel and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The modern town of Wadi…
Wadi Rum The Valley of the Moon — a vast protected desert of red dunes, sandstone massifs and Bedouin camps, made famous by Lawrence of Arabia and…
Aqaba Jordan's only coastal city and Red Sea resort, famous for coral-reef diving and snorkelling, a laid-back seafront, the Mamluk-era fort and…
Dead Sea / Sweimeh The lowest point on Earth (about 430m below sea level), where hyper-saline water lets you float effortlessly and mineral mud draws…
Jerash One of the best-preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the world, with a colonnaded street, hippodrome, temples and two theatres. An…
Madaba The "City of Mosaics", home to the 6th-century Madaba Map — the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Land — and the gateway…
Ajloun A green highland town in the north known for the 12th-century Ayyubid castle of Qal'at ar-Rabad, built by Saladin's forces, and the…