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#63 JORDAN

on July 27, 2015

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Amman Citadel

Mansaf, the Jordanian national dish, is lamb cooked with fermented dried yogurt sauce

Kempinski Hotel, Dead Sea

The Dead Sea

Dead Sea mud mask!

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