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Mountain highs

Beaten by the passage of nomadic Bedouin tribes over millennia, Jordan’s walking paths are now being discovered by a new generation of travellers. In 2015, its network of hiking routes was ambitiously redesigned into the 420- mile Jordan Trail, which winds through the entire length of the country from its bucolic north to the drier, starker south. Arguably

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