Al-Khazneh, Petra’s celebrated Treasury façade

Country guide

Jordan

4 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.

PhotographGraham Racher from London, UK derivative work: MrPanyGoff · CC BY-SA 2.0

Find your way through Jordan.

The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.

Country orientation

Find the shape of your journey.

See how the 4 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.

Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.

  1. Petra

    The Original 100 · A sandstone city shaped by trade, water and desert light.

  2. Wadi Rum

    Honourable Mentions · An inhabited desert of sandstone towers and long horizons.

  3. The Dead Sea

    Honourable Mentions · A salt lake within a vast, changing rift landscape.

  4. Jerash

    The Wider World · Colonnaded streets, theatres and monumental public spaces make an ancient city unusually easy to read on the ground.

The Original 100

1–100 · 1 place in this country

Al-Khazneh, Petra’s celebrated Treasury façade

2 · Jordan

Petra

A sandstone city shaped by trade, water and desert light.

Honourable Mentions

101–200 · 2 places in this country

Sandstone mountains above red desert sand

102 · Jordan

Wadi Rum

An inhabited desert of sandstone towers and long horizons.

The Wider World

401–500 · 1 place in this country

The Oval Plaza at Jerash

445 · Jordan

Jerash

Colonnaded streets, theatres and monumental public spaces make an ancient city unusually easy to read on the ground.

Turn the collection into a journey.

Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.

Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.

For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.