Day 2 – Umm Qais
In your first full day in Jordan, you’re heading two hours north of Amman to discover Umm Qais and the ruins of the Decapolis metropolis of Gadara. With 4 hours of driving forward of you, make breakfast simple by eating at Colors Restaurant within the Landmark. It’s an all-day buffet that begins at 6:30 am, so you may have a feed-up and get rolling on the street.
Umm Qais is situated within the far north of Jordan on a ridge 1,240 ft above sea degree, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, the Golan Heights, and the Yarmouk River gorge. As you’d anticipate, the area has at all times been of strategic significance, together with some of the decisive battles within the historical past of the world, the Battle of the Yarmuk, which successfully ended Christian management of the center east for over a thousand years.
We suggest hiring a educated native information when visiting Umm Qais to boost your expertise. To totally maximize your day, you may e book further experiences from Baraka Locations, together with olive selecting, beekeeping, basket weaving, and stone masonry. These actions had been important to historic Umm Qais and are preserved as we speak by eco-tours like Baraka.
I finished in to make use of the restrooms on the well-known Umm Qais Relaxation Home. The meals appeared so good that I used to be tempted to remain, however I had booked a particular lunch at Galsoum Kitchen, which was unimaginable. Our host, Galsoum Al Sayyah, cooked a full conventional Jordanian meal, however I fell in love with the Makmoura. The dish interprets as “buried,” however our hostess described it as “Jordan lasagna.” Makmoura is dough with hen and onions and gradual baked to a golden brown. She stated it takes 5 hours to organize a meal like this, and she or he employs native girls to maintain these traditions alive.
You’ll break up your Umm Qais day between touring the ruins and Baraka Locations actions, however you’ll want to discover the beginning of the Jordan Path. It’s a long-distance mountaineering or biking path that takes you from the far north of Umm Qais to the Purple Beach at Aqaba.
With 4 hours of driving time and a full slate of actions, it is a lengthy day, so it’s an ideal time to make the most of the six on-premise eating places ready for you upon your return to the Landmark Resort in Amman.
