Aqaba Essential: The Red Sea Coral Reef Diving, the South Beach Snorkeling, the Aqaba Flagpole, the Ayla Resort, and Jordan's Only Sea Gateway
The Aqaba essential circuit covers the Red Sea coral reef diving as the most biodiverse single diving destination in the Middle East, the South Beach snorkeling as the most accessible single reef, the Aqaba Flagpole as the most visible single Great Arab Revolt monument, the Ayla Resort, and Aqaba as Jordan's only single Red Sea gateway.
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Aqaba Red Sea: Jordan's Only Coastal City
Aqaba (Jordan's only single Red Sea city, the most strategically significant single Jordanian port with the most direct single connection to global shipping, and the most geographically unique single Jordanian city positioned at the narrowest single point of the Gulf of Aqaba between the Egyptian Sinai and the Saudi Arabian Hejaz coasts), is the most climatically warm single Jordanian city year-round and the most practically accessible single Jordan Red Sea experience for the visitor arriving from the Petra-Wadi Rum circuit.
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South Beach Reef: The Most Accessible Snorkeling
The Aqaba South Beach reef (the most practically accessible single coral reef in Jordan with the shore-entry snorkeling from the most directly walkable single beach to the most colorful single shallow coral garden, the most immediately visible single reef fish community including the most brilliantly colored single parrotfish, the most gracefully swimming single sea turtle, and the most densely populated single school of damselfish), is the most democratically enjoyable single Aqaba underwater experience for the non-diving visitor.
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Aqaba Diving: The Most Biodiverse Middle East Reef
The Aqaba diving scene (the most biodiverse single diving destination in the Middle East with 110+ identified coral species, 1,000+ fish species, the most completely pristine single deep-water wall dive in the northern Red Sea at the Cedar Pride wreck and the Japanese Garden dive site) is the most internationally recognized single Jordan adventure tourism activity and the diving destination most frequently included in the most respected single global diving guide publications.
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Cedar Pride Wreck: The Most Famous Aqaba Dive
The Cedar Pride wreck (sunk deliberately in 1985 at 7-27 meters depth, the most deliberately created single Jordan dive site and the most richly encrusted single artificial reef in the northern Red Sea with the most completely colonized single ship hull surface covered in the most brilliantly colored single sea fan, soft coral, and sponge community), is the most photogenic single Aqaba dive site and the wreck most frequently featured in the most internationally distributed single Red Sea diving photography.
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Aqaba Flagpole: The Arab Revolt Monument
The Aqaba Flagpole (132 meters tall, the most visible single landmark in Aqaba visible from the Israeli city of Eilat and the Egyptian city of Taba across the Gulf, the most dramatically scaled single Great Arab Revolt memorial marking the spot where T.E. Lawrence and the Hashemite forces captured Aqaba from the Ottoman garrison in July 1917 in the most strategically important single Arab Revolt military success), flies the most dramatically large single Jordanian flag in the most historically significant single Jordan port location.
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Ayla Oasis: The Modern Aqaba Resort
The Ayla Oasis development (the most comprehensively planned single Aqaba waterfront resort with the lagoon marina, the golf course, the most internationally branded single Aqaba hotels, and the most completely pedestrianized single Aqaba waterfront promenade) represents the most ambitious single Jordan tourism infrastructure investment and the Aqaba resort experience most comparable to the most internationally developed single Gulf resort model.
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