Jordan Guide
Amman
East Amman
Wealthy West Amman is the most accessible part of the city outside Downtown, and you're unlikely to have much reason to visit the city's other, chiefly low-income neighbourhoods, often collectively dubbed East Amman, even though they spread to north, east and south. The deepening gap of culture and affluence between the two "halves" of the city leads local wags to claim that you need a passport these days to cross from West to East Amman; that's an exaggeration, but if you venture out to the handful of landmarks in the east – the Hejaz Railway Museum, for instance, or the Cave of the Seven Sleepers pilgrimage site – you'll certainly feel as if you've left the ritzy shops and hotels of West Amman far behind.