Jordan is in the heart of the Middle East, Northwest of Saudi Arabia, South of Syria, Southwest of Iraq, and East of Israel and the Occupied West Bank. With a combination of Mediterranean and arid desert climates, Jordan has has warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters, with annual average temperatures ranging from 12 to 25 C (54 to 77 F) and summertime highs reaching the 40s (105-115 F) in the desert regions. Rainfall averages vary from 50mm (1.97 inches) annually in the desert to as much as 800 mm (31.5 inches) in the northern hills, some of which falls as snow in some years.

This is the country of Petra, 2,000-year-old pink and salmon colored rock-carved city capital of the Nabataean Arabs, the Dead Sea and the Wadi Rum desert, where you can trace the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia. Here you can visit 10,000 years old villages where humankind first began experimenting with village life as well as drive down to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley, and bask in the sun at the lowest spot on earth, or visit several of the mysterious 8th Century AD Islamic desert castles, some of which were so large they were never completed, or even go back further in time, to the Greco-Roman world of Jerash and the Cities of the Decapolis with their theaters, colonnaded streets, baths and temples.

The variety and beauty of Jordan's attractions are matched only by its thousands of years old tradition of hospitality.