Walking in Amman is not like walking anywhere else.
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When I first came to Amman in the summer of 2007, I naively announced to my new colleagues how much I loved walking. I realized my folly that same day, when I had to trudge up—with less-than-great lungs and a heavy laptop bag—one of the great big flights of stairs that connect Amman’s old neighborhoods. Over the next year, I realized that walking in Amman isn’t like walking anywhere else: it means going up hills, walking down hills, trying to maintain your footing on a crumbling set of stairs.
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