The Route

The Start Line is from Paris Circle through Baooniyeh Street, to Shareea’ Street through the back streets and old Weibdeh park with emphasis on the Fine Arts Museum passing the old Churches and King Abdullah Mosque to the Courts of Justice touching on the Parliament to the Abdali Boulevard.

1)Paris Square

2)Badea Yaish House

3)The Mosque of Sharia College

4)Terra Santa College

5)Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

6)Al Weibdeh Park

7)Coptic Church

8)King Abdullah I Mosque

9)Palace of Justice

10)The Housing Bank

The Abdali Boulevard

Celebrate multicultural Jordan by learning soap-making and crochet, helping their newest residents and women entrepreneurs. Many women that came from Syria are widowed or had to leave their husbands behind. They arrived in Jordan as the sole breadwinners for their families. Only 7% of Syrian women in Jordan are employed. Syrian Jasmine House seeks to address that by providing jobs and income.

They employ 70 women - the majority are Syrian but group also includes Iraqi and Palestinian. They have a goal of increasing the women they work with to 200 in 2018. They have trained more than 1000 women on the art of handicrafts. The company received a donation to fund the trainings however they do not depend on donations; they are a business at the end of the day.

To the far south of Jordan, about 380 km from the capital Amman, you will find the only sea port of the Kingdom overlooking the oasis of Ayla. Shaded by palm trees, Ayla sits along a coast rich in coral reefs and amazing marine life – not to mention thousands of years of history. Just beyond the bustling streets, shops, restaurants, hotels, and resorts that characterize modern-day Aqaba, you can visit the city’s historic heart.

If you want to take a break from enjoying Aqaba's beautiful beaches, just take a short walk to this site and you will discover a part of this city you may never have imagined. The Islamic city of Ayla was one of the most important seaports in the Middle East, linking Syria, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula. It was an important center of copper smelting, and products made with copper, brought in from nearby Wadi Araba, became one of the most important trades for the people of Aqaba, in addition to ship building, and sea fishing.

The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf (HLID) in Salt, Jordan, is a Christian and Church-affiliated foundation that extends a helping hand to deaf and deafblind children in Jordan and the Middle East, regardless of their social, religious, political or economic backgrounds.

The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf seeks to enable deaf, hard-of-hearing and deafblind children, as well as people with other sensory and physical disabilities, for inclusion and participation in their families and communities in a meaningful way, and to make their valuable contribution to civic society – in the Middle East.

AYLA GOLF COURSE

More than 800,000 square meters of rolling green fairways cascade out against Aqaba’s mountainous backdrop, forming the Kingdom’s first championship golf course. The property includes an 18-hole (7,152 yards, par 72) championship course and a nine-hole (1,085 yards, par 27) fully floodlit academy course, both designed to cater to professional and amateur golfers alike. The Ayla Golf Course was carefully designed with Jordan’s unique ecology in mind, allowing visitors to enjoy a lush and eco-friendly experience.

The Ayla Golf Club is home to a dedicated Golf Academy, which offers both private and group instruction for all ages and experience levels, delivered by PGA-qualified instructors.

Flexible membership options at the Ayla Golf Club are available for corporate clients, individuals, families, couples, and ‘junior future stars.’

AYLA GOLF CLUB

The gateway to Ayla’s one-of-a-kind golf course, the Ayla Golf Course is an exclusive facility that takes the Golf Hills community to new heights. Designed in an architectural style that mimics the rolling green fairways of the course, the Ayla Golf Club features a comprehensive array of facilities and amenities, including:

• Ayla Golf Academy Clubhouse
• Dedicated practice ground with grass teeing area
• Outdoor practice putting green and short game area
• Two indoor swing studios
• On indoor putting studio
• Guest bag drop area
• Silica, an all-day bar and restaurant
• Boutique retail shop
• Club repair workshop
• Male and female changing facilities

Summaga Café is a relaxed all-day café and restaurant that offers an authentic taste of Ajloun. It is run by Al Kifah Society, a cooperative of 25 organic farms in the Ajloun area. 

The menu is based on the local ingredients produced by the farms, homemade dairy products, preserves, honey, herbs and spices as well as traditionally foraged herbs and greens presented through simple, traditional dishes typical to the area. Dishes are prepared and assembled on the spot and served with warm Jordanian hospitality. 

The cooperative products are also on sale, including organic olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey, zaatar and sumac, free range eggs and dibbes (molasses).

Baraka Destinations was created to partner with local communities in secondary tourism sites and together design and build tourism experiences that showcase their hometown to curious travelers. You’ll find us working in areas often forgotten by tourists, or visited for an hour or two just to tick a list, and with us, you’ll have the opportunity to get to know the hidden gems that most tourists would miss, get to connect with the people that call it home, and enjoy a memorable and high quality travel experience.

Established by BARAKA Consulting, a firm based out of Amman, Jordan, with a team of local and international professionals who share a common vision and passion that sustainable tourism can stimulate economic growth while conserving and protecting cultural heritage and natural resources.

Baraka is specialized in sustainable tourism development, providing consulting and training services to its clients with a vision of mainstreaming sustainability concepts in the tourism industry. We work with our clients to design, build and implement tourism strategies that leave minimal impacts on the environment and maximum benefits for local communities while catering to the expectations of today’s experienced traveler.

BookAgri.com is a leading online platform in the agri-rural tourism business. Agritourism is gaining popularity as a travel experience and is taking 24% of the global tourism share in many countries experiencing rapid growth such as India, the MENA region, Philippines and the Far East. 

BookAgri.com was established in July 2015 as a platform for showcasing agri-rural tourism businesses and farm activities and connecting the visitor with a range of agritourism experiences. This global website helps shed light on the importance of agritourism and is open to related businesses to register and gain access to the visitor market. By bringing this business to the forefront of the global market we encourage self-employment, while helping people develop a respect for nature.

Agritourism helps farmers maintain their farms and stay in the farming business by using their skills to produce authentic products and share experiences with visitors as an added source of income. Once the farmer’s profiles are on the website they will be accessible to those interested in BookAgri and its agritourism business. BookAgri.com will reach millions of people across the globe and hopefully change their lives in the process. 

Based in Amman, Jordan, BookAgri.com will be linked to many agritourism agencies all over the world from this very central location.