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Where to travel on holiday in 2012 – Part 3 – Africa

Spring sunshine: Morocco and Jordan

Jordan travel
Jordan travel
Don't write off the Middle East and North Africa as tourist destinations. Jordan, which has so far been spared the conflicts of neighbouring countries, contains the 9,000-year-old Nabataean city of Petra, as well as a spectacular Roman site at Jerash – and current Foreign Office advice is that there are "no specific threats to the safety of British visitors".

Jordan travel
Jordan travel
Jordan travel - Amman Aqaba
Jordan travel - Amman Aqaba


Audley (01993 838400; audleytravel.com) offers a week there from £1,320 per person, including flights and a car-plus-driver, with visits to Jerash and Petra (accompanied by private guides), the great valley of Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea.


Morocco travel
Morocco travel

Morocco travel
Morocco travel
 
Morocco, too, has remained largely calm in recent months, and is at its most captivating in spring sunshine. 

Morocco travel
Morocco travel
 Locals are hoping to attract more visitors with affordable hotel deals; for an excellent range of stylish accommodation in Marrakesh, Fes, Essaouira, the Atlas Mountains and the desert, see the Morocco section of i-escape.com; prices start at about £75 a night for a double room, and several riads and hotels are offering discounts of up to 20 per cent.

Morocco travel
Morocco travel

Morocco travel
Morocco travel
  (Telegraph)

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