Good country, exhausting tourist industry

Jordan is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Jerash Roman ruins is worth every superlative thrown at it. The mansaf is legitimately excellent. incredible Roman ruins gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in Aqaba is relentlessly commercial and expensive for the region is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic Jordan and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.