gulf of Aqaba

Aqaba offers a soft and deluding introduction to a Muslim country. Walk the boardwalk on the Gulf of Aqaba, exchange shekels to dinars, select from numerous restaurants and a range of hotels — all for significantly less than those in Eilat. From the beach, you are just 6.2 miles from Egypt, 11.9 miles from ...

AMMAN — Fourteen cruise liners are expected drop anchors in Aqaba during April, according to an official from Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA). The cruise ships, three of them which already arrived, carry around 16, 000 one-day and overnight visitors, ASEZA commissioner for economic ...

As urban development increases along the Gulf of Aqaba, some popular dive sites will no longer be accessible. To meet touristic demand, and to protect the area's marine life, certain coral reefs were relocated by the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority in cooperation with the United Nations ...

A total of 85-100mcm of water will be desalinated every year, while the seawater will be pumped out from an intake located in the north of the Gulf of Aqaba. In November last year, Israeli media reports claimed that Israel had told Jordan that a joint agreement for the construction of a pipeline transferring ...

To clarify this relationship, Torfstein and Kienast compared in situ surface concentrations of atmospheric dust and chlorophyll a—a common measure of ocean productivity—in the Gulf of Aqaba, a long, narrow extension of the nutrient-depleted Red Sea, limited in both phosphorous and nitrogen.

Over the past four years, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has presided over a security crackdown that's left thousands dead, imprisoned tens of thousands more, and made the use of torture routine. He's repressed free speech, undermined civil society, and ramped up a failing war in the Sinai.

Intriguingly, also in March, the Saudi crown prince was in Cairo discussing the proposed multibillion-dollar King Salman Bridge to link Egypt and Saudi Arabia through the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba; some see this as a reaction to the Aqaba flights and the maritime route project. During his visit March 12 ...

The weather will be hotter in the Gulf of Aqaba with highs reaching 32 degrees and lows standing at 18, the JMD added. Temperatures will rise few degrees on Wednesday, so moderate weather will prevail in many areas, but the country will remain under the impact of the unstable weather conditions until ...

Amman, April 2 (Petra) -- A rise in temperatures is expected on Monday, becoming 5-6 degrees above their seasonal average bringing warm conditions in the hilly areas, while it will be relatively hot in the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, the Jordan Meteorological Department(JMD) said in its daily brief. Daytime ...

Under the project, a wide panoramic road overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba will be created. The more than $1.5 billion project, called Al Matal, also includes a manmade lake that stretches over 100 dunums, according to Ghanem. Al Matal project, which will be over a total area of 760 dunums, includes building ...

Under the project, a wide panoramic road overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba will be created. The more than $1.5 billion project, called Al Matal, also includes a manmade lake that stretches over 100 dunums, according to Ghanem. Al Matal project, which will be over a total area of 760 dunums, includes building ...

... in 70 A.D. committed suicide rather than be forced into slavery by Roman legionnaires. I floated in the Dead Sea and waded in the Jordan River. In Jordan, I hiked the desert trail through the rose-hued petrified burial tombs of Petra and viewed the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt from across the Gulf of Aqaba.

NEOM is a new destination being created as a free economic zone in the northwest of Saudi Arabia including land in Egypt and Jordan along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba. NEOM will be built with principles of livability and innovation at its core, making it the best place to live and work. NEOM spans over ...

A 31-year-old Jordanian man has completed a personal challenge to spend 24 hours under the sea. Adnan Nasrat wanted to prove that he could eat, drink and sleep underwater. Jordanian set himself a 24-hour diving challenge in the gulf of Aqaba. Aqaba is located 330 km south of the Jordanian capital, ...

The initial step in this plan was for Saudi Arabia to gain control of Sanafir and Tiran Islands, thereby opening up its access to the western shores of the Gulf of Aqaba and Red Sea. The recent Egyptian court decision that approved this transfer of sovereignty thus removed the last obstacle to the Neom project ...

In April 2016, President al-Sissi transferred to Riyadh the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which enclose the Gulf of Aqaba between the Egyptian Sinai and Saudi Arabia. While al-Sissi had presented this gesture as a territorial “restitution”, under the 1840 London Convention, which is the only valid document, ...

The two countries have plans to build a causeway across the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba and to develop areas on both sides, including a multi-billion dollar city stretching across Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. The current close relationship between the two countries follows a period of tension in late 2016 ...

Across the Gulf of Aqaba, 15 miles wide, Saudi Arabia's Hijaz mountains are picked out in ochre against a brilliant blue sky. Further down the sand, the Friday market is setting up. A mix of races, languages and religions come together in a colourful crowd. New Agers, entrepreneurs and eccentrics patronise ...

AMMAN — A sunken marine port structure in the Gulf of Aqaba was unveiled on Monday as findings of Jordan's first underwater archaeological expedition tracing ruins of the Islamic city of Ayla were announced. The unearthed port dates back to the Umayyad period towards the end of the Fatimid period ...

In a conference to be held in Aqaba, the Royal Marine Conservation Society of Jordan (JREDS) and its project partners will announce the expedition's findings which “are pretty interesting and will set the ground for new prospects for the Gulf of Aqaba's heritage, nature, environment and culture”, said the ...

Its closest neighbors are Jordan, which sits right across the Gulf of Aqaba, and Saudi Arabia, located across the Sinai Peninsula. Koshari is a local food most Egyptians like to indulge with several times per week for a number of reasons. For one, it's very cheap, 25 Egyptian Pounds would get you a pretty ...

His trip started in Tahrir Square in Cairo, from where he cycled across the Sinai Peninsula before crossing by boat the Gulf of Aqaba to Jordan. There he visited the archaeological city of Petra, swam in the Dead Sea and passed by Lot's Cave; Nufal is now cycling through Amman. En route to Russia, where ...

At a meeting with Aqaba Company for Ports Operation and Management's director general, Mohammad Mubaideen, and other executives, Shraideh stressed that the Marsa Zayed project, which will be implemented after old facilities are removed, will be a distinctive Gulf of Aqaba landmark, reflective of the ...

The Sinai Peninsula is separated from Jordan and Saudi Arabia by the Gulf of Aqaba. Part of the southern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, where the popular tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is located, is washed by the Red Sea. The Sinai Peninsula is the only part of Egypt that is located in Asia. It is separated ...

With her talk done at Mote Marine, Hall hurried out the door. She had to catch a flight the next day to Saudi Arabia. She was going to spend a couple of weeks under the water doing coral research in the Gulf of Aqaba on the northern tip of the Red Sea. Gosh I wish they had an aquarium on that swamp.

... of the Dead Sea within the area of crater pit has helped in the migration of birds because the hot air currents rising from the ground help large birds, which is a feature of the nature of Palestine where flying birds use the rising air currents to travel distances from the Bekaa in Lebanon to the Gulf of Aqaba.