r/solofemaletravellers • u/NomadNattieJordan • 17h ago
Female Travel in Jordan
Ask a woman who’s been to Jordan if she felt safe traveling there.
Then ask a woman who hasn’t been if she thinks she would.
The answers don’t match. By a significant margin.
I’ve been taking Western women to Jordan for over a decade. The consistent feedback isn’t “it was safer than I expected.” It’s “I can’t believe how wrong I was.”
Women describe Jordanian hosts rearranging their evenings to make sure a solo traveller has somewhere to go for dinner. Markets where men step back when a woman says no — without pushback, without commentary. The specific quiet of walking through a city at night and realising the thing you were braced for isn’t coming.
That experience exists. It’s well documented. Women who’ve been there will tell you unprompted.
But it doesn’t travel.
The travel industry moves risk stories efficiently. The “woman felt genuinely safe and welcomed in the Middle East” story moves slowly, if at all. It doesn’t trigger the same editorial reflex. It doesn’t perform the same way in a headline.
So the women who haven’t been yet keep making decisions based on a version of Jordan that the women who have been would barely recognise.
Jordan doesn’t have a safety problem. It has a testimony problem.
The only fix is more women who’ve actually been there saying, publicly and specifically, what they found when they arrived.
If you’ve been to Jordan and felt this — I’d love to hear your version in the comments.
#Jordan #WomenWhoTravel #SoloFemaleTravel #TravelIndustry #MiddleEast
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u/Gaelenmyr 16h ago
why would you even use hashtags on Reddit
we are not interested in your low effort AI slop
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u/NomadNattieJordan 16h ago
Because I just signed up for Reddit and have never used it before and I am learning. Im used to using hashtags on normal social media and don’t really know how Reddit works yet. But thanks for the friendly welcome anyway.
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u/Level_Priority_8525 16h ago
Don't sweat it. Ppl can be mean.
This has more effort than a lot of posts tbh
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u/NomadNattieJordan 16h ago
yeah i never understand why people do that. Like what must be so miserable in their life that they come and be mean to people online. And they get so many likes for doing it too. Building their reputation and likes based on being bullies. Im late to the Reddit game, I get it. But Im pretty sure their first post probably didn’t win a Nobel Prize either. Anyway, you are right. I should not let it bother me. Thanks. 🙏
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u/Level_Priority_8525 15h ago
If it makes you feel any better my top voted comment ever, from a different account, was something that later found I was wrong about lol
If it interests you at all the use of that dash in your writing is an AI giveaway as well as phrases that tend to compare things, it's kind of hard to catch unless you know what you're looking for but for example it's not x it's Y or it's more than just x it's y.
I actually thought that your point of view is interesting and fresh and I enjoyed reading your thoughts.
I also like what you wrote about people building their reputation on being bullies.
It could have just as easily gone the other way with everyone ganging up on the person who called you out to defend you, it's totally random so yeah don't worry about it
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u/NomadNattieJordan 15h ago
Lol it happens. Ive been writing with the dash since before Facebook even came out back in myspace days… well before AI. Ive tried to stop using it since AI started using it actually. Lol. I have to consciously replace it with a period quite often. But yeah, usually what I do is a brain dump of my ideas and sometimes get AI to just clean it up to something easier to read. Although when really writing, Iike when Im working on my book, I enjoy just using raw thoughts but Ive found in my experience so far most platforms prefer a more polished version of my writing and therefore I sometimes use AI to accomplish that. However, the thoughts and ideas are still mine. I am quickly realizing Reddit is an entirely new ball game and perhaps the best approach here is to post/comment as if its in the girls group chat rather than blog post style. It’s all a learning curve and I appreciate your support! ♥️
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u/Level_Priority_8525 13h ago
xo PS tell me a little about your book if/when you feel like it .... and I hear you about the dashes!
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u/NomadNattieJordan 7h ago
I am writing a book about my life with the Bedouin tribe in Petra Jordan where I have been living on and off for several years. If you google Petra Bedouin maybe with NomadNattie you will find some articles like from CondeNast Traveler and Whizz Air Magazine etc about my life there. I want to expand and go deep on that and share the real life there. Its such an incredible place and community. ♥️
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u/Level_Priority_8525 5h ago
Interesting .... I live on an indigenous reservation in Canada. Im curious to see your take on things. Do you adopt any specific paradigm? Post colonial, feminist, etc? I'll have a look :) Edit found your Instagram, I'm crookedbeakboutique
Great 📸
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u/UrbanStitchery 16h ago
This isn’t LinkedIn. No one wants to read this formulaic AI slop. If you want an actual discussion, verbalise your opinions yourself.