
Land and Sea in the Golden Triangle of Jordan
There are some places you’ve seen so many times in your mind’s eye that they almost seem familiar when you finally visit. The Golden Triangle of Jordan, encompassing Wadi Rum desert, Petra, and Aqaba, was one of those places for me. Just as for many others my age, my introduction to Petra was via “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Where is that?! “Is that place real?!” I thought as I watched. It is, and it’s as glorious as I’d imagined.
But Petra is only one of the reasons to visit Jordan, a