Overland Travel Across Borders: A Tale of Two Frontiers
Karameh Turaibil 24-Hour Amman Baghdad Desert Artery
A single road slicing through a vast, empty desert defines the 179-kilometer border between Iraq and Jordan. This crossing is a testament to resilience, a vital commercial corridor that has remained operational through decades of regional turmoil. Your journey here is a straightforward but isolated one, a direct path connecting Amman with Baghdad across the starkly beautiful landscape of the Eastern Desert.
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You will use the one and only official crossing point: the Karameh Border Crossing on the Jordanian side and the Turaibil complex on the Iraqi side. There are no other points to cross this remote and heavily monitored frontier. The highway leading to the border is known as the Baghdad-Amman corridor, and it carries a steady stream of trucks and passenger vehicles.