Description
Day 01: Queen Alia International Airport – Amman city tour (if time permits) – Amman Hotel
Meals: Dinner
Arrival at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, our airport representative will wait for you before the immigration desk holding a sign with your name and will assist you with the visa procedures to get your free tourist visa (please don’t miss him and don’t proceed without him). Our airport representative will walk with you through customs and to the luggage hall. If you have time, you can tour the downtown part of capital city Amman for 2 hours, visiting sites and museums including the citadel and the Amphitheatre. Everywhere you look there is evidence of the city’s much older past.
Then you will be transferred to your hotel in Amman for dinner & overnight.
Day 02: Amman Hotel – Madaba – Mt. Nebo – Shobak – Little Petra – Petra Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, visit Madaba, a center of Christianity during the Byzantine era, it is worth stopping for its churches, its early Christian ruins, and even more for its extraordinary mosaic map that represents the Promised Land, on the floor of the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George. Continue your journey to Mount Nebo and the Tomb of Moses which offers a pleasant view of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Then take the mythical road of kings, this thousand-year-old trade route that zigzags between canyons and highlands and pass by the Shobak Castle, an enchanting castle that was built in 1115 under the rule of King Baldwin I. Then Proceed to visit Little Petra, best known as Al Beidha (the White One) due to the pale rock colors. Little Petra, also known as Siq al-Barid (literally “the cold canyon”) is an archaeological site located north of Petra and the town of Wadi Musa in, it is a Nabataean site, with buildings carved into the walls of the sandstone canyons. As its name suggests, it is much smaller, consisting of three wider open areas connected by a 450-metre (1,480 ft) canyon. It is part of the Petra Archeological Park, though accessed separately. Ending the day with dinner and an overnight stay in Petra.
Day 03: Petra Hotel – Petra visit – Wadi Rum 2hrs. Jeep tour on sunset time – Wadi Rum Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, visit the Nabatean Red Rose city of Petra, one of the 7 world wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Enter the city through a 1KM long narrow gorge which is flanked either side by 80m high cliffs! Notice the dazzling colors and formations of the rocks. The site is massive, and contains hundreds of elaborate rock-cut tombs, a treasury, Roman-style theatres, temples, sacrificial altars and colonnaded streets. you will enjoy a 2 – hour jeep tour in Wadi Rum at sunset. Finally, dinner and an overnight stay in a Wadi Rum camp.
Day 04: Wadi Rum Camp – Dead Sea salt formations are stop for panoramic view – Dead Sea Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, proceed to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth deep in the Jordan Valley and 55 km southeast of Amman, is the Dead Sea, one of the most spectacular natural and spiritual landscapes in the whole world. It is the lowest body of water on earth, the lowest point on earth, and the world’s richest source of natural salts, hiding wonderful treasures that accumulated throughout thousands of years. Finally, dinner and an overnight stay in the Dead Sea Hotel.
Day 05: Dead Sea Hotel – Queen Alia International Airport (Optional tours if departure is late)
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Queen Alia International Airport for departure.
