Engaging Cultures Travel announces the launch of their Jordan Olive Harvest Tour.
“After 3 years of hosting our ‘Olive Harvest Day Experience’, we decided it was time to create a multi-day tour with the Jordan olive harvest as the focal point,” says Daniel Robards, Engaging Cultures Travel’s co-founder. “Year after year we […]
I’m beginning to wear a light jacket in Amman during the evening, do you know what that means?
Jordan’s olive harvest season is quickly approaching!
It is one of my favorite times of the year and we would love to invite those living in Jordan or touring Jordan on October 19 & 26 or November 9 to […]
We wound our way an hour and a half north of Amman through the mountains toward Al Ayoun. Stands dotting the side of the road let you know what fruit or vegetable is in season. Jordan receives the majority of its produce from this fertile region as well as […]
Snow! All over the Tunisian country side. Today I am mobilizing people to donate blankets and food and will bring them to mountain villages tomorrow morning where they have the greatest need. My goal is 300 blankets. One town had three feet of snow. Most just got a dusting but the temps in the interior […]
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Jordan has some of the most spectacular sites I have ever seen. In a country smaller than the state of Indiana, Jordan […]
Engaging Cultures Tunisia recently had the privilege to help refugees pouring in from Libya. I volunteered for five days with a small group of internationals and Tunisians that cooked hot meals and served them to the refugees, mostly from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ghana and Nigeria.
Each day, we prepared and distributed one hot meal in the late […]
The olive harvest has begun in Jordan. We had a nice rain yesterday and the farmers are saying it was just what they needed. Usually mid November marks the first days of picking olives but the recent rain and above average summer temperatures are causing an early harvest.
It was my […]
