Jordan

Did you know?

• 🏙Petra, the 'Rose City' carved into rock, was lost to the outside world for over 600 years.
• 🌊The Dead Sea, partly in Jordan, is so salty you float effortlessly; its extreme salinity excludes fish and most macroscopic aquatic life, though microbes can survive.
• 🏜Wadi Rum desert doubled as Mars in The Martian and Tatooine in several Star Wars films.
• 👥Jordan hosts millions of refugees relative to its population — among the highest in the world.
• ✨Has over 100,000 archaeological and tourist sites in a country smaller than Portugal.