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Day 1: QAI Airport – Amman overnight
Upon arrival to Queen Alia Airport our representative will meet and assist you through the customs and immigration procedures. Transfer to the hotel in Amman for overnight.
Day 2: Amman City Tour – Jerash – Dead Sea – Amman overnight
Breakfast, then start the day with a city tour in Amman. Visit the Amphitheater and the Jordan Folklore Museum and the Citadel. After we drive in the north of Jordan to Jerash, the best example of a Roman provincial city in the whole Middle East. We visit the spectacular Forum, Roman colonnaded street, the Nymphaeum and Artemis temple. The Dead Sea is our next destination. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth (417 m below sea level) and the largest "Natural Spa" in the world. You have the opportunity to float in the Dead Sea and experience the feeling not to sink in water.
Back to hotel in Amman for overnight.
Day 3: Amman – Desert Castles – Amman overnight
Today starts our tour to the Desert Castles in eastern Jordan. The Amra Castle adorns with its zodiac dome and the early examples of Omayyad fresco paintings, and there are still the fortress-like mysterious Qasr Kharanah and the black basalt Roman/Medieval Islamic fort at Azraq.
Back to hotel in Amman.
Day 4: Amman –Madaba–Mt.
Nebo–King’s Way–Kerak–Petra overnight
After breakfast drive to Mt. Nebo, the place where Moses gazed at the promised land before he died. You visit the old monastery and overlook the Jordan Valley, Dead Sea and parts of Israel. After we proceed to Madaba, to the famous mosaic 6th century map of Palestine in St. George’s church. Afterwards we drive to Kerak along the famous ancient biblical caravan route the King's Way. We have a short stop in Wadi Al-Mujib, a great wide valley with magnificent geological formation. In Kerak visit the famous Crusaders castle built in 1132/34 by king Baldwin the first of Jerusalem. Continue to Petra for overnight.
Day 5: Petra full day
After breakfast departure for a full day tour to the red rose city Petra, the biggest attraction of Jordan. Petra was first established around the 6th century B.C. by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and founded of a commercial empire. You will begin the trip on horse back or by foot to the canyon, the so called Siq, and then walk to the most beautiful monument: the Treasury. Among other monuments you will see are the Street of Facades, the Royal Tombs and Pharaoh's Castle.
Back to hotel for overnight.
Day 6: Petra – Wadi Rum – Aqaba overnight
After breakfast we drive to Wadi Rum, the wild desert landscape, which already fascinated the British liaison officer Lawrence of Arabia. You start a two hour Bedouin Jeep tour which leads you to canyons, sand dunes and Nabatean rock inscriptions. Then onto Aqaba at the Red Sea, where the rest of the day is free.
Overnight in Aqaba.
Day 7: Aqaba at leisure and overnight
Jordan's only city at the sea is Aqaba. The splendid weather during more than eight months of the year allows you here to enjoy sailing, water skiing and swimming. Diving and snorkeling is a great adventure, as you spot the colorful and varied marine life in the Red Sea.
Overnight in Aqaba.
Day 8: Aqaba – QAI Airport
After breakfast transfer to QAI Airport in Amman for departure.
Package Includes:
- Meet & assist services.
- Hotel accommodation on BB basis.
- Traveling in a/c, new vehicle with English speaking tour leader.
- All transfers and excursions mentioned in itinerary.
- Entrances fees for sites mentioned in itinerary.
- Short horse ride in Petra (included on ticket).
- English speaking guides on site: Jerash and in Petra (entrance to restaurant area).
- Two hours 4x4 Jeep tour in Wadi Rum – if itinerary includes Wadi Rum.
- Group visa Jordan (more than 5 pax, mutual arrival and departure, passport details required).
Package Excludes:
- Airfare.
- Travel insurance.
- Entry visa Jordan (for less than 5 pax 10 Dinar = 15 USD per person at Amman Airport).
- Departure tax if any.
- Lunch, dinner & beverage.
- Tips & private expenses.
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