| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
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Wadi Mujib is 3km wide.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
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The oldest sample of Hebrew writing was found in this valley.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
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Spectaular road along the King's Highway.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
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Desert hills.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
View of the valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
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Small village near Kerak.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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The town of Kerak is on a hilltop.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Kerak is 1000m above sea level and is located in the centre of the King's Highway.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Street scene.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Two women.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Shop.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Al Hamdi Mosque.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Statue of Saladin.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Kerak is dominated by its large castle.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The entrance to the castle.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The moat and the Ottoman Gate.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The castle was built by the Frank king Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The castle is built on the site of the Moabite city of Kir Heres.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Salah El Din (Saladin) took the castle in 1183 after a siege.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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View of the King's Highway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Kerak Castle was built by the Crusaders in 1142.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The Romans called the hilltop Charac Moaba.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The Mameluk (Islamic) dynasty took control of the castle in 1263.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Kerak is at the interestion of the King's Highway and the road to the Dead Sea.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View from the castle.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Spectacular location.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The castle was captured by Salah El Din (Saladin) in 1187.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View from the upper levels in 2019.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View of the castle in 1986.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
The castle was used by the Ottomans until 1917.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Stone passageway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Stonework.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The castle is built on the site of the Moabite capital.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Defensive window.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The walls.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Strucures below ground level.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Archway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Pottery from 3000 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Residential structure.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Much of the site is derelict.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Ruined building.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View of the town.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View of the town and valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
The castle and town have a spectacular setting.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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Looking South.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Looking North.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View from the castle.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
Looking West from the castle walls.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
 |
View from a castle archway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
Site / Event : Kerak Castle
|
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The King's Highway snaking through the landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
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Kerak was once the main centre in the Biblical land of the Moabites.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Kerak
|
 |
View of the Dead Sea from Kerak.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Village in the south.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
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Hilltop shrine.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Flat mountain.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
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Wide valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
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Hillside village.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Eroded rocks.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
The highway snakes across the desert.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
The highway near Petra.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
The Ma'an Mountains between Petra and the Dead Sea.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Misty scene.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Nabatean carving.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Desolation.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Sandstone peaks.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Abandoned settlement.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Grazing lands appear at lower altitudes.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Yellow sandstone.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
The road descends to Wadi Arabi.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Scattered trees.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
Zig zagging road.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Ma'an Mountains
|
 |
View of the Dead Sea Valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Wadi Arabi is a desolate valley at the foot of the Ma'an Mountains.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
The valley is below sea level.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Oases are dotted around the valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
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The valley is hot as it is below sea level.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Parched landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
The valley is 20km wide.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Boulder strewn landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
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Goat herders.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
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The desert.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
The Ma'an Mountains of Jordan.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Flat topped mountain.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Dramatic mountain range.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Parts of the valley are green.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Small mining settlement.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Wadi Arabi
|
 |
Road through the valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
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The Dead Sea Highway travels North-South close to the Dead Sea.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
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Sandstone hills in the valley south of the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Beduin settlement with the hills of Palestine beyond.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Agricultural land.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Salt flats.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
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Beduin settlement.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Beduin tent.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Eroded hills.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea Valley
|
 |
Jordan in the foreground with a Beduin encampment. Palestine in the distance.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea
|
 |
Palestinian settlement by the Dead Sea with the hills of Israel-Palestine visible on the far side.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea
|
 |
The shore of the Dead Sea, 398m below sea level.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea
|
 |
Palestinian settlement next to an oasis.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Dead Sea
|
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Sparse vegetation on the dry shore.
|
1986 |
were added from 1 February 2025.