Hiking Across Jordan (part 1)
The 'Jordan Trail' is a hiking footpath that traverses the country north to south. The northern terminus starts at Um Qais which is a village near the borders with Syria and Israel. The route is 650 kilometres to connect with the Red Sea. I hiked southbound over 22 days in October 2019. Hopefully this trip report helps plan or inspire a long distance hiking trip. I nformation and pictures from the northern half of the country (the first 11 days) are found on this page. Then i f you can tolerate more of my bad jokes and poor photography skills I'll post a link to the next page which includes the southern half. I broke up this blog post into 2 parts to speed up loading times with all the photos. Here is the link for part 2 if you want to 🐻 with me for the entire journey! https://www.ascendandwander.ca/2019/09/thru-hiking-jordan-trail-part-2.html The GPX track across Jordan Day 1 We took a bus from Amman early in the morning and st...