Jordan

By SUSAN McKEE Terrorist attacks. Suicide bombers. Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli tanks. The news reports were full of reasons not to travel to the Middle East last year as the hopes for a peaceful settlement of the centuries-old conflict faded once again. But, I decided to travel to Jordan anyway. If not now, when? …

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CITY OF STONE with Ernie Alderete “Petra” may well be the root word for piedra, the Spanish word for rock. And Petra is, appropriately, a city carved from living rock, angular edifices seem to morph from the face of enormous rounded cliffs, and long-ago water-eroded boulders. I first experienced Petra by night, as my microbus …

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