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<h1 class="blog-title" dir="auto"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/" rel="home">Picturing Jordan</a></h1>
<p class="lead blog-description" dir="auto">Sharing Jordan with the worldone picture at a time.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/azraq-wetland-disappearing-oasis/">Azraq Wetland, a Disappearing Oasis</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-24T21:28:31&#43;03:00">Sat Sep 24, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
<i class="fa fa-folder" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/categories/nature" rel="category tag">Nature</a>
<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/wetland" rel="tag">Wetland</a>, <a href="/tags/oasis" rel="tag">Oasis</a>
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<h4>A one of a kind oasis is at risk of disappearing soon.</h4>
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<p>There&rsquo;s a unique wetland nature preserve an hour and a half from Ammanin thirty minutes of walking around, I saw birds, snakes, crabs, fish, and even water buffaloes! For thousands of years Azraq was a massive, thriving oasis whose ecological diversity supported human settlements, but in recent decades it has come dangerously close to drying up due to increased water usage from surrounding cities.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/">Buying Baklava in Amman</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-23T11:15:16&#43;03:00">Fri Sep 23, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/baklawa" rel="tag">Baklawa</a>, <a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>
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<h4>Everybody likes baklava!</h4>
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<p>There&rsquo;s a shop in one of Amman&rsquo;s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I&rsquo;m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of <em>baklawa</em> — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/saint-thaddeus-church-amman/">Saint Thaddeus Church in Amman</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-20T14:58:34&#43;03:00">Tue Sep 20, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/church" rel="tag">Church</a>, <a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>
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<h4>Easily one of the most unique buildings in Amman</h4>
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<p>Even if the number of mosques in Amman <em>didn&rsquo;t</em> outnumber churches by a factor of ten, the Saint Thaddeus Armenian Apostolic church would still stand out. The unique architecture caught my eye once and then I started seeing it every time I glanced at Jabal Al-Ashrafieh. After weeks of squinting and asking myself &ldquo;<em>Is that an Armenian church?</em>&rdquo; I finally went on an scavenger hunt and found it.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><em>Picturing Jordan</em>, sharing Jordan with the worldone picture at a time.<br><br><a href="/about">Read more →</a></p>
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<li><a href="/2018/08/buying-bedouin-fabric-amman/">Buying Bedouin Fabric in Amman</a></li>
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<li><a href="/2018/07/saint-thaddeus-church-sunset/">Saint Thaddeus Church at Sunset</a></li>
<li><a href="/2018/02/greco-roman-ruins-pella/">GrecoRoman Ruins of Pella</a></li>
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