In an antique land, a modern-world kingdom | The Asian Age
In an antique land, a modern-world kingdom | The Asian Jordan – In an Antique Land Arriving in Jordan is supposed to be a hassle free, visa-on-arrival convenience aimed at bestowing a charmingly Arabic welcome to the harried, cattle-class fatigued visitor. Mine, didn’t quite fall in that category though, preceded as it was with an encounter with a suspiciously querying visa officer, followed by three senior ones, before my passport was stamped. Enough to put a dampener on one’s mood one would agree. But I decided to shrug this irritant aside, attributing the brusqueness to the region’s currently troubled reality and instead decided to concentrate on the country that lay beyond its Immigration Section. And that was a revelation. Jordan is in many ways a matchless confluence of ancient stories replete with the whispers from empires long lost, Biblical allusions and a kingdom of the modern world. Roads w...