I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

Oh no

Amateur Traveler episode 752. Today the amateur traveler talks about

crusader castles and canioneering, ancient cities, Roman ruins, and Bedouin

camps, deserts and the Dead Sea, as we go to the country of Jordan.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Jordan. I'd like to welcome the show Yulia Denneschuk, who is a travel photographer and writer who also runs

tours and you can find those at nomad and jewels.com and Yulia welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris. So excited to be here and to talk about my love, Jordan.

And Jordan being the country not not your boyfriend.

Yes exactly. Although for the amount of time that I am coming to Jordan you could think that it's becoming

my boyfriend. Well and you see the amount of time So what is your connection to Jordan?

So I first went to Jordan in 2017 on a work trip actually. I was there on an assignment and

I completely fell in love with the country so much that I decided

to come back fairly soon after and then I just kept coming back and I developed friends there, developed the community there and kept coming back both for work but also for personal reasons,

wanted to study Arabic a little bit more than decided to start the travel company so it just kind of all

came together but I love Jordan I've been there probably close to 20 times now in the

past four years or so. Well and this is not the first time we've done a show on Jordan. We've done at least one when I went to Jordan a while back, but it had been a while. So Yulia pitched me this and it seemed like a good idea because I also love the country of Jordan.

Why should someone go to Jordan? I think Jordan is one of those places that doesn't leave you

neutral, right? Like you said, you go there and you either completely fall in love. In fact, I don't think I've met anyone who has gone to Jordan and said,

me, it was so-so, right? Most people really fall in love with the country.

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