Latest articles from Outdoors Life Info (http://www.outdoors-life.info) http://www.outdoors-life.info 2008-10-12T01:24:55+01:00 text/html 2007-11-16T16:13:50+01:00 http://www.outdoors-life.info http://www.outdoors-life.info/trekking-in-jordan-a189.html Jordan is blessed with a wide range of climates, resulting in an unusually large number of different habitats and great biological diversity for a country of its size. However, many of these are extremely. fragile, and can be easily disrupted. There are substantial local climatic variations, largely due to the extensive differential in heights from the lowest point at the Dead Sea, 1,320 feet below sea level, to high mountain tops at almost 6,000 feet.