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“the rose-red city, half as old as time…”

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Mark Laichena

About half the people who I told I was going to Jordan replied to me, “Oh, Petra?” At the time, I couldn’t really understand why my response of “No, Amman”, didn’t provoke the same excitement from them – it took my trip to Petra for the last three days for me to understand quite why [...]

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