Jordan – Flung

Jordan’s Other Magnificent Ancient City

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 02:39:00 +0000

Petra gets all the glory, but there’s another ancient city in Jordan with serious capacity to awe. Jerash, located just 30 miles north of the capital city of Amman, is a sprawling, incredibly well-preserved ancient Roman metropolis. The ruins, including a food market, a main street, a water fountain that supplied the entire population, and intact streets let me envision life in Roman times viscerally. For my money, it was better than the Forum in Rome. I came away from […]

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The People Who Live in Petra (or Not)

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 09 May 2017 18:00:55 +0000

Not long after arriving to Petra, the ancient city in southern Jordan known alternately and aptly as the Lost City and the Rose City, my two companions and I climbed a series of staircases carved into cliffs, which deposited us finally onto a large terrace. At the far end of it, a large room had also been carved into the cliffs, along with an impressive façade of columns and windows. The room, like all the others here, was built to […]

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10 Ways To Get the Most Out of Your Trip to Petra

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:42:07 +0000

You’d have to try pretty hard to have a bad experience at Petra, the stunning ancient city carved into the desert cliffs of southern Jordan. That said, the landscape there is extreme, and aside from the Treasury building, the way to the gems not always obvious. After my trip there last December, I assembled this list of 10 things you can do to get the most out of this trip of a lifetime to the Lost City of Petra. 1. […]

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The InterContinental Hotel Amman: Long-Earned Glamour

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:52:27 +0000

In 1963, the InterContinental in Amman* opened, becoming the first five-star hotel in Jordan. In the years since and despite an influx of high-end options catering especially to the business traveler, the “Intercon” has retained its allure. By this point it is a hotel woven into the very fabric of the place it inhabits, having transcended its well-known global brand to become a singular point of reference in this ever-expanding desert city. Staying here not because I was a business […]

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