Tour of Jerash - Best Preserved Roman City in the World
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I took a 3 hour guided tour of Jerash which is located just north of Amman. It takes about 25 minutes by car to get there. I did not take a group tour but those options are available.
The city itself is much larger than you first imagine. The history is rich between the transfer of power from for example Greek to Roman, though the history extends before those influences.
The entrance fee was worth it and the guided tour cost me about 50 JD paid directly to the guide upon the end of the tour.
The guide was great! His name is Nader, educated in Canada and well spoken, knowledgeable and a pleasant person to be around. His phone number 00962797795656. Please check the time in Jordan before calling him.
Prepare to do a lot of walking, you can easily do 4-5 miles in the entire complex or just visit the hippodrome, the Roman center and the temple. It's up to you.
The weather in December was about 70F all day in the sun. Bring water and sunblock, sunglasses and hat.
You can also visit the ruins of a Templar castle 15 minutes away if you like that is situated on a big hill. More on that in a future video.
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Kronicle - Sublime
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My guides name is Nader Habaibeh, email nader_habaibeh@hotmail.com. Please be respectful. Book a tour with him, you won't regret it!
He's amazing! Very knowledgeable.
Your guide, Nader, seemed superlative. His knowledge and ability to convey information with enthusiasm in virtually unaccented English was really fantastic
Yes it was one of the best tours I ever had. His phone number is somewhere in this comment board if anyone wants to find him.
The guide has an amazing voice and style to narrate.
A bit like Manuel in Fawlty Towers
Jajajajahahagagaga
The guide knows his business - a good presentation.
I like that guide. He's very knowledgable and has a great command of English. I suspect he's an archaeologist.
@@Fredericus.Cornelius I'm not sure what his nationality has got to do with anything. He's still a very knowledgable guide and has a great command of English. I doubt that he's French anyway, as there is not a hint of a French accent.
@@Fredericus.Cornelius Ooh, the mysteries of European humor! But I think I get it now: a French guy speaking excellent, accent-free English is about as rare and precious as the Cullinan Diamond.
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"He is French )"
Say what?!
Might have a degree in archaeology.. or a degree in English, what matters is he’s got a passion for his job
I like the guide very informative
Paxton Pickett his English and his technical knowledge about the ruins is phenomenal!!! Awesome guide!!!!
I also visited Jerash around this time and Nader was my guide as well! The man is exceptionally knowledgeable and passionate about what he’s discussing. Jordan is the best country I’ve visited thus far and the people of Jordan are amazing!
That tour guide is fantastic. He also has a wonderful voice.
Two things of note: your guide is extremely knowledgeable, he could be a university professor. Two, those bagpipes startled me. Lol. I wasn't expecting to hear bagpipes in this part of the world. I was pouring myself a glass of water and started drinking when the bagpipes blasted. I literally spit up water from being startled to hear them. I never knew about Jerash before, and now, thanks to you and your excellent guide, I can add its existence to my knowledge. Thank you so much.
A good prof IS a guide.
But the guy down at Shake Shack knows hamburgers inside out.
Many cultures had the bagpipes in various forms long before the Scots.
Well I am a Jordanian coming from Jerash City, where you were is almost 5 minutes a way from my House! I am a medical doctor in Germany now, left Jordan 15 years ago. I miss Jarash a lot! What is astonishing is that, only Jerash itself has more preserved roman Ruins than Italy itself (where the roman empire came from). Respect to that legendary Guide of yours, who speaks an accentless English with a perfect detailed Knowledge mixed with humbleness and a strong voice! You chose the right person on the right time and place! Hope you enjoyed it sir. Thanks for visiting our country mate
I enjoyed it very much and would love to return. The guides name is Nader and he’s the start of the show ⭐️!
Wtf are you talking about ? Are you drunk ? Italy is full of Roman ruins. Just go to rome.
I think you have never even been to Italy before saying that.
I appreciate the lack of crowds. Too many places are overrun by people who don’t know and don’t care. They go because it is the thing to do or it is where the tour bus takes them.
Absolutely agree. I sought this place out before my trip. Was totally worth it.
In the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair, the King of Jordan sent over the column of Jerash. It is still standing in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. On my last visit to FMCP, I took pictures of it, but I can’t seem to be able to post them. Btw, your guide is outstanding!
WOW ! WE DON'T HAVE SUCH WELL PRESERVED RUINS IN ITALY ... I HOPE TO VISIT SOME DAY !
"A perfectly intact mosaic floor"
*only two small portions on the edges remain*
@Major Quintana k bot
@@mondsgesandter I don’t know what’s weirder, a bot saying that or a real person saying that 🤷🏼♀️
It’s obviously a bot. But so creepy either way.
As soon as you made this false statement completely contradicting himself. That's when he lost all credibility in my book.
That guide is amazing. He is so knowledgeable and is really thoughtful in the small details he gives.
I want to go there just to meet him lol
His name and contact is somewhere in the chat if you go.
the Guide here is very informative and intelligent and knows his stuff
Yes. He was awesome and I had a great time with him. Someone posted his name in the comments here and I think I can maybe find his contact details. Great guide and we had a great tour.
Beautiful contrast between the golden stones and that brilliant blue sky! Nice camera work and a very easy to listen to, and knowledgeable guide.
It is amazing old city that I saw it for myself yesterday unbelievable and full of history people are amazing too thank you Jordan for all great hospitality
What an excellent guide Nader is.
He has a lovely voice, too!
Absolutely terrific! The guide was casual and articulate, too, which I liked a lot. Also your wide angle lens really worked for me at this broad site. Thanks. It felt like I was there, at such a beautiful old place, full of history.
+one with the mind thanks so much for the kind words. It was. Nader, my guide was really awesome.
Your guide was amazing! He explains everything so well and with such passion that I feel like I was right there alongside you, seeing the place for myself
This guide is hands down one of the best guides in the world!
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. Your guide Nader is an exceptional guide. I will be having him as my guide when next I travel to Jerash.
It’s so big and yet only 1/3 of it has been excavated, so I’ve been told. Thank you for sharing. 👏🏼
Bagpipes are not a thing I expected to hear in Jerash (but I didn't expect to hear them in Jerusalem either, and I did).
So many things to see in Jordan. I hope to visit it and Egypt some day. The guide in the video is fantastic.
Thanks for excellent camera works and a great guide! Next to Petra, here's where I will visit on my trip to Jordan.
Thanks. Have a great journey!
Jordan is definately worth of visiting.very friendly people , just buy tickets n go
Absolutely agree!
The guide has all those dangly puffs on his scarf. You only add dangly puffs onto projects like that out of lots of love. He must be a wonderful guy. I counted 9 dangly puffs somebody made for him. Cool tour. 😍
Actually this is called Koufiyeh (كوفية) and the dangly puffs exist in every Koufiyeh ever made in stores.
Dema Bekawi lol
Indeed, the danglier the more passionate the craftsmanship, this hatta was infact made by an aunt of mine.
Wow! I am amazed at how well preserved that theater is!!!
He's very knowledgeable.
My god this is just extraordinary. To think it stood the testament of time is mind blowing! I would love to visit Jordon one these years, since there's a lot of places I want to see in Jordan
I have been here. Next time I want your guide. He is great.
Excellent guide and fascinating video
Thanks for watching.
Thank you for sharing. Great job by the tour guide.
Thanks for watching!
That’s awesome, looks like it was an amazing trip
My nephew and his sisters are from Mafraq, they gave us an indepth tour of everything back in March.
I easily walked 7 miles.
It was amazing.
Don't miss the balanced column or the underground museum or climbing in the ampitheatres
6:47 That's one of the best examples of ancient roman CCTV cameras I have ever seen.
I thought Pompei and Herculanum are the best preserrved roman towns in the world. I'm surprise by the monumentality of Jerash though.. that circular porticoed plazza and that grand stone staircaise..
I still think that, because I was there last year and had many complete buildings.
Obviously the size of Jerash is much bigger
It is Pompei and Herculanum as well as Ostia...there are several others in Algeria that are well preserved. I visited Jerash three years ago - it is true, it is really well preserved but "Best" is really an overstatement. Probably the best preserved and largest in the Levante.
Total agree was blown away when visiting this site in Jerash Fantastic.
I had to come back for a 3 rd viewing. Nicely done with excellent guide. Thanks for sharing your travels.
+Matt Wvsoaring thanks Matt. Great to hear. The guide was great and we genuinely had a good time. Appreciate the view and comment!
Jerash is an amazing place. Nothing like being there.
Visited here in 1998. Stunning.
Went here in 2017, it's beautiful. Visited Petra as well, such an awe.
Thank to you and to the guide!
He’s great. His contact is in the description
Great Guide! Fantastic tour! Informative video.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful guide!
The fact the Roman civilisation existed is amazing , the quality and effort they put into their cities and just as amazing is how it declined and collapsed .
Very good guide. Congratulations dude.
Thanks for watching!
amazing places, great story. I wish to try the sound acoustic in that amphitheater, I'm sure that it will be interesting. great video, like!
It gets more complex than that. If you whisper in the walls, you can be heard from the other side. Like a telephone. I went there. I was talking in the middle of that thing and everyone heard me loud n clear
The music at the end a reminder of Greek ancient music.
I've heard the name of the city, but knew absolutely nothing about it. So much preserved! I found this tremendously interesting. Thanks.
This is a great idea when traveling. I don't know why I've never did it. Too many times I've left too much oral history slip by. It allows you to further appreciate what you're seeing, and to not forget what's being said if you have a good guide like you have.
+222222e agreed, this is why I often remain quiet to lessen my input and allow the guide to share as much knowledge as possible.
I previously watched an hour version of this but with no narration. The narration makes all the difference. Amazing place, it belongs on bucket lists. Sadly with Covid and my age a visit is unlikely.
Hi Bob. You can do it. Get vaccinated and take PCR test before arrival to jordan 🇯🇴. Never say never
Very much enjoyed this it was pleasant. Thank you for the content.
Thank you for watching!
I love historand really enjoyed the video. Your tour guide seemed very knowledgeable and to like his job. Of course 1 on 1 is likely better than guiding a whole group of idiots which is bound to have at least one know it all, LOL. Enjoyed the man with the bag pipes. LOL. Strong set of lungs there.
Very good , guide knows the territory
Very good video
Phil
So beautiful jerash I love it thanks for sharing your beautiful vedio god bless you always keep safe always beautiful
Thanks for watching!
As an esl teacher in Asia, it's very noticeable how fluent Nadar is with vocabulary and verb phrases. Super impressive.
If I remember correctly, he studied in Canada.
What an excellent tour guide you had!
Yes. I think I put his contact info in the description or someone posted it in the comments. I’m also friends with him on Facebook. Great guy!
Great pictures, but I get really dizzy from the camera constantly swinging back and forth. try a series of steady shots, please.
Steady shots help engraving images in our memory. Memory is a chemical reaction in the cells of the memory centers and as such an image needs several seconds to be engraved ( not inferior to 3 seconds)
Great site.. Have just seen few of yours... all absolutely magnificent ( I visited them all also :) ). Thank you for sharing....
+Zofia Dziewanowska thanks so much. It's my pleasure.
Visited jerash on 2020❤
Great. Video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
What a great tour. :-)
thank you very much. The guide was great! His name is Nader, educated in Canada and well spoken, knowledge and a pleasant person to be around.
Your channel definitely deserves more subscribers. I'll spread the word!
Lexcoaster kind words. Thank you very much.
Amazing side and grate guide :) THX
Amazing places. I’ve been there 2017.
Should have said , absolutely amazing , what has was built in previous times and some left for us to be amazed by .
Phil
glad to see you back igor your videos are up there with the best big fan
Steven Lowe thank you for the kind words. I just returned from Jordan and Israel so much to edit and upload. Appreciate the support.
Igor Tochilnikov will be keeping my eye out for them can't wait
Awsome
amazing that no wood survived at all.
Great videos Igor! My honest thanks.
Thanks for watching, Avner. Appreciate the kind words.
This place is awesome.
Czech republic :)) Great stuff thank you
Thanks for watching!
Your guide is very good.
Yes, I was lucky.
Very nice, but Pompey, Herculaneum and Ancient Ostia are better preserved. Hadrian Villa just outside Rome is in an amazingly good condition too.
Gladiators didn't fight in hippodromes. They were race tracks.
Fascinating stuff.
thanks for watching!
Great stuff
Love it
Thanks for watching!
Sweet footage and virtual tour, it seems great minds think alike; I've been wanting to make videos like this for quite some time, especially with the addition of Hip-Hop instrumentals. Helps keep the vibe, great work bud, cheers!
+Efraín Arroyo thanks man. I really enjoy sharing the videos with people looking for tips and things to do or people who cannot visit the sites. I've had a lot of positive feedback from people.
I'm always trying new things. Music. Edits. Etc. Thanks for being on the journey!
I couldn't be more of a hip hop fan. But I hate a video with music that doesnt match. Dont go too crazy with it.
i enjoyed Amman but I was a Blackwater contractor at the time so
I didn’t go to the places like Petra I really wanted to go because of my company’s reputation
@0:58 "that is a perfectly intact mosaic floor behind me..." LOL. I have a piece of scrap metal I want to sell Igor that is a 'perfectly intact Lambourghini' ;)
[accoustics] It's cuz the room is a hard surfaced circle and you are standing at the center. It's better inside a sphere, stepping in with height, than an theater, stepping away with height, causing dwell. The effect is fun.
No, the audience does not benefit from the whispering arch effect, nor do you benefit in terms of hearing them. Yes, nice clear lines and hard surfaces and a maximum number of people a minimum distance from the speaker are all benefits to hearing, but these are unrelated to the joys of ellipses.
My regrets that I didn't go there inside jerash while I was in Jordan. We only pass that town with an arch named jerash when we travelled from Amman to irbid...
It happens to me all the time. Don’t worry, for now it’s there and you can always return!
That was not a perfectly intact mosaic floor! Only the outer edge still existed. Still a very stunning place.
I've seen many impressive roman cities, but never such a great guide !
maravilloso !
Thanks for watching!
Good one if you checkout the footage on the two preachers channel might be the reason of that city being under mud or soil 👍
Just a side note for you! The Eastern Roman Empire never called themselves Byzantines. The name Byzantine is a derogator term used by the Catholic church because of the Eastern Romans Orthodox church.
amazing
Thank you for watching!
It would be good to add a map at the beginning to show the location of Jerash. Interesting to know how deep this area was buried before it was excavated.
Look it up on Google Earth! No one may know how much is buried. Even these ancient ruins may have been built on top of more ancient ruins. Excavating the site would destroy what remains.
Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
The Guide reminds me of Omar Shareef
Very nice videos, and knowledgeable guide. Compared to other greek/roman cities as the ones you can find in Turkey (Ephesus), do you think is better preserved? Thanks for making and sharing this video.
Thanks for watching! I haven’t seen many ancient sites in Turkey except for Cappadocia but I think in terms of preservation, they did a very good job at Jerash. It’s a very large complex.
Which part of the Arch emits that boom, boom sound?
Devolution if humanity .
Wrong .. Hadrian did visit Jerash.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Jerash in AD 129-130. The triumphal arch (or Arch of Hadrian) was built to celebrate his visit. A remarkable Latin inscription records a religious dedication set up by members of the imperial mounted bodyguard “wintering” there.
Would so love to see this. How did you get in contact with this guide? So informative. Essential to have a detailed explanation.
I actually hired him right at the gate. Cost was about $25 USD. I lucked out. We had a great time
i hope that mosaic floor has a foof now,these amazing places dont have the infrastructure they deserve.In my country a crappy touristy giant fruit style tourist attraction would be praised
was just there
We look back and marvel, never questioning why we marvel. If we did, we might wonder why it was taken from us.
Well said!