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&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m struggling to find words to describe my trip to Jordan&#39;s coastal city Aqaba. Initially, the contrast between dry desert, rocky mountains, and the turquoise water of the Red Sea is visually striking — imagine Matt Damon in &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but where he goes snorkeling on a coral reef instead of growing potatoes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m struggling to find words to describe my trip to Jordan&#39;s southern city by the sea. Initially, the contrast between dry desert, rocky mountains, and the turquoise water of the Red Sea is visually striking — imagine Matt Damon in &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but where he goes snorkeling on a coral reef instead of growing potatoes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<guid>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/azraq-wetland-disappearing-oasis/</guid>
<description>&lt;figure&gt;
&lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160924_101454.jpg&#34;
alt=&#34;Small lake with bridge and vegetation in the Jordanian desert.&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;A one of a kind oasis is at risk of disappearing soon.&lt;/h4&gt;
alt=&#34;Small lake with bridge and vegetation in the Jordanian desert&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;A one of a kind oasis is at risk of disappearing soon&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s a unique wetland nature preserve an hour and a half from Amman — in 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.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s a unique wetland nature preserve an hour and a half from Amman. In just 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.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s a shop in one of Amman&#39;s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I&#39;m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of &lt;em&gt;baklawa&lt;/em&gt; — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s a shop in Amman&#39;s main market downtown that sells traditional Arabic sweets. I&#39;m not sure who was more excited about this half-kilogram of baklava (which is called &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;baklawa&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; in Arabic) — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<guid>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/saint-thaddeus-church-amman/</guid>
<description>&lt;figure&gt;
&lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160919_141959.jpg&#34;
alt=&#34;Armenian church with pointy steeple&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
alt=&#34;Armenian church with pointy blue steeple in traditional style&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Easily one of the most unique buildings in Amman&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Even if the number of mosques in Amman &lt;em&gt;didn&#39;t&lt;/em&gt; 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 &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;Is that an Armenian church?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; I finally went on an scavenger hunt and found it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
&lt;p&gt;Even if the number of mosques in Amman &lt;em&gt;didn&#39;t&lt;/em&gt; 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-Ashrafiyeh. After weeks of squinting and asking myself &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;Is that an Armenian church?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; I finally went on an scavenger hunt and found it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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