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<h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/harvesting-olives-ajloun/">Harvesting Olives in Ajloun</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-11-18T18:39:58&#43;02:00">Fri Nov 18, 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/ajloun" rel="tag">Ajloun</a>, <a href="/tags/olives" rel="tag">Olives</a>
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<p><a href="http://wildjordan.com/">Wild Jordan</a> has an ingenious day trip where you pay <em>them</em> to take <em>you</em> to pick olives on a farm in Ajlounthe family who owns the farm even comes out to watch you and give you tips!Like I said: genius. Jokes aside, it was actually a lot of fun, and the point is to educate you about the olive harvest and its importance to people in the region.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title"><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
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<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 in the near future.</h4>
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<p>There&rsquo;s an amazing 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 it was a massive, thriving oasis whose ecological diversity supported human settlements, but in the past few 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"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/camping-dana-biosphere-reserve/">Camping in the Dana Biosphere Reserve</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-19T09:48:23&#43;03:00">Mon Sep 19, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>A few weeks ago I slept in a tent on the cusp of Jordan&rsquo;s Rift Valley. <a href="http://wildjordan.com/">Wild Jordan</a> has regular hiking and camping trips to the reserve and they are very affordable. The staff are friendly and genuinely care about nature conservation. Trips to this and other national parks are part of an impressive <a href="http://www.rscn.org.jo/">government effort</a> to preserve Jordan&rsquo;s natural spaces.</p>
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<p><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="/2017/01/dome-of-the-rock/">The Dome of the Rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/2016/12/grandeur-petra/">The Grandeur of Petra</a></li>
<li><a href="/2016/12/kanafeh-classy-palestinian-dessert/">Kanafeh: the Classy Palestinian Dessert</a></li>
<li><a href="/2016/11/red-orange-yellow-rice-bab-al-yemen/">Red, Orange, and Yellow Rice at Bab al-Yemen</a></li>
<li><a href="/2016/11/harvesting-olives-ajloun/">Harvesting Olives in Ajloun</a></li>
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