The reserve of Wadi Mujib is the low­est nature reserve in the world, locat­ed in the moun­tain­ous land­scape to the east of the Dead Sea, approx­i­mate­ly 90km south of Amman. The 220kmA reserve was cre­at­ed in 1987 by the Roy­al Soci­ety for the Con­ser­va­tion of Nature and is region­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly impor­tant, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the bird life that the reserve sup­ports. The Mujib val­ley is being devel­oped for adven­ture tourism, and a num­ber of facil­i­ties have been estab­lished includ­ing a Vis­i­tors’ Cen­tre and a beach area on the Dead Sea. Expe­ri­enc­ing Jor­dans Grand Canyon involves swim­ming, jump­ing, abseil­ing and float­ing. Its red walls are filled with run­ning water that plunges through a 15m water­fall.