11/12/2022
St.Jadoor
Art Gallery Inn
This quiet retreat has seven double bedrooms, shower and toilet facilities and a large communal kitchen.
The rooms are simply decorated, all the furniture is made of recycled wood, and the walls in the lounge and the corridors leading to the rooms are full of paintings and art work.
The gallery building is set in a walled village garden containing lots of fruit trees interspersed with seasonal herbs and vegetables.
Azraq village
Azraq is a natural oasis in the eastern desert of Jordan. It is surrounded by the black desert created by the eruptions of ancient extinct volcanoes that produced massive lava flows and the oasis itself.
The oasis is the most important stop-over for more than 280 species of birds that migrate between north-eastern Europe and east Africa.
Evidence of human presence, of people settling or passing through the area, is clear; in some places the black rocks are full of drawings and inscriptions, and there are huge construction of stones all over the place; theories abound about what they all represent, but what’s important that they are and that they are human work.
The modern village was established in 1918 by the Druze people, who came from the southern highlands of Syria and initially lived inside the 3rd century AD Roman fort, the easternmost fort for the Roman Empire. In 1925/27, Azraq hosted the Druze rebels who were against the French occupation of Syria, some of whom, after liberating Syria, came back and settled in the oasis.
Things to see:
the Roman fort,
the Wetlands Reserve
Shaumari Wildlife Reserve.
St. Jadoor programs
Day excursions
- Desert plants, culinary and medicinal; a full day trip with light lunch.
- A full day roaming the desert’s natural landscape, ancient rock art, Roman tower and light lunch.
@100 JODs
Camping overnight
-Either in the black desert, or the white desert, one night, with sunset and sunrise, dinner on an open fire, breakfast.
@ 150 JODs
-Two day sight-seeing and overnight camping including lunch, dinner and breakfast.
@ 250 JODs
All travel is in 4x4 pickup trucks with a professional driver-guide.
Start and end point is St. Jadoor Inn.
Eating
Traditional village food, cooked by ladies from the village; you have the option of participating and learning how to cook or simply ordering at St. Jadoor.
Nearly all your food is organically grown and prepared the way we eat at home, or you can also make your own food in the kitchen at St. Jadoor.
Drinks
We can provide alcoholic drinks, home-made fruit drinks, hot spicy drinks etc.
Prices
25 JODs per person per night, including breakfast.
St. Jadoor is surrounded by its own private garden that is available to our guests.
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