Geography of Jordan

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March 18, 2012 at 2:41 am

(1) Don Hirschberg says:

I went to Jordan (I can’t remember the year, in the sixties?) to start up a small oil refinery in Zarka. I commuted to the Hotel Philadelphia in Amman near the royal enclave and the Roman ampetheatre. I do remember that getting a visa was difficult. I had to have documentation that I was not a Jehovah Witness, a felon, a Jew, and had to jump though other hoops.

The Biblical Jerusalem was then in Jordan. I visited the historic route of Jesus, Stations of the Cross, Bethlehem and Jericho which was a huge UN refugee camp. Thousand s of people none of whom did any work what so ever.

King Hussein would drive like crazy and others were expected to get off the road for him. Of course I didn’t know this. I met an English girl who taught the King’s children and royals. Getting into the royal compound was a challenge. Submachine guns though the driver’s window and mirrors rolled under my car.

At that time US aid was more than half of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s budget.

April 3, 2012 at 7:49 pm

(2) Miguel Cava Peralta says:

Very good, the article about Geography of Jordan and the others geographies too! ¡What nice is the Geography, thank you! Miguel.