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Canadian World Traveller Spring 2024 Issue

Now in our 22nd year of publishing, World Traveler explores the culture and history of worldwide destinations, sharing the adventure of discovery with our readers and motivating them to make their travel dreams a reality. World Traveler helps sophisticated, independent travelers choose their next destination by offering a lively blend of intelligent, informative articles and tantalizing photographic images from the world’s best destinations, cruises, accommodations and activities to suit every traveler's taste.

Now in our 22nd year of publishing, World Traveler explores the culture and history of worldwide destinations, sharing the adventure of discovery with our readers and motivating them to make their travel dreams a reality. World Traveler helps sophisticated, independent travelers choose their next destination by offering a lively blend of intelligent, informative articles and tantalizing photographic images from the world’s best destinations, cruises, accommodations and activities to suit every traveler's taste.

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by Randy Mink<br />

Tometimes it’s the simple things you<br />

remember most. One of the fondest<br />

memories of my recent small-group trip<br />

to Jordan with Goway Travel was an<br />

impromptu picnic lunch at a little clifftop park<br />

in Wadi Musa, a scrappy town clinging to hills<br />

outside the ruins of Petra, the country’s most<br />

famous tourist attraction.<br />

On the way to the unassuming roadside park,<br />

our driver—named Aladdin—let off our<br />

guide, Michel Safar, who ran into Jupiter<br />

Falafel while we waited in the mini bus. He<br />

brought out grease-stained sacks of pipinghot<br />

falafel—those tasty deep-fried balls of<br />

ground chickpeas—along with drinks, plastic<br />

tubs of hummus and fluffy pita bread straight<br />

from the oven. The order also included<br />

shawarma, the Middle Eastern street food<br />

standby of meat and chopped vegetables<br />

wrapped in pita.<br />

There we were, enjoying a typical Jordanian<br />

lunch while feasting on panoramas of the<br />

rumpled, wind-eroded mountains that cloak<br />

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