11 Day Classic Tour

of Jordan

Amman – Al Balad - Jebel Al Qala'a – Jerash – Madaba - Greek Orthodox Church of St. George – Mount Nebo – Dead Sea – Petra – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) - Al Beidha - Wadi Araba – Wadi Namala – Dana Nature Reserve - Wadi Feinan – Wadi Sabrah – Wadi Rum - Al Kharazeh – Diseh

Day 1

Queen Alia International Airport - Amman – Al Balad - Jebel Al Qala'a – Jerash – Madaba

We will meet and assist you upon your arrival at the Airport, then transfer you to Amman for a city tour to visit Jebel Al Qala’a and the Roman Theater.

Then we will go to the North of Jordan to visit Jerash, lunch will be in Jerash, then to Madaba for dinner and overnight.

Day 2

Madaba - Greek Orthodox Church of St. George - Mount Nebo – Dead Sea - Petra

In this day, we will visit the Mosaic church of Madaba and Mount Nebo.

Then we will go all the way down to the Dead Sea for lunch and floating, then to Petra for dinner and overnight.

Day 3

Petra – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) - Al Beidha - Wadi Araba – Wadi Namala

We will spend a full day on camels back all the way from Al Beidha and Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) to Wadi Namala through Wadi Araba for dinner and overnight will be at a camp in the openness.

Day 4

Wadi Namalah - Dana Nature Reserve - Wadi Feinan

We will spend a full day trekking at the Dana Natural Reserve, we will start after the breakfast all the way down to meet with Wadi Feinan at the end of the canyon, dinner and overnight in a hotel in Feinan.

Day 5

Wadi Feinan – Wadi Araba – Wadi Namala

Then from the Feinan hotel and after the breakfast, we will continue trekking all the way on camels back through Wadi Araba and Wadi Namala for camping overnight.

Day 6

Wadi Araba – Wadi Namala – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) - Al Beidha

We will spend a full day on trekking back all the way from Wadi Namala through Wadi Araba to Al Beidha and Little Petra to dinner and overnight will be at a camp in the openness.

The area was once a caravanserai stop for the capital and comes complete with its own mini-Siq, a 350 meter fissure in the rock crammed with tombs, triclinums, water channels, and cisterns.

It is still easy to imagine the sounds and smells of the old days when traders, caravan masters and drovers lived and traded here.

We will drive a short distance on to Al Beidha , or 'the white one' on account of the color of its rock.

Al Beidha contains the remains of a Neolithic site, dating back to 7,500 BC which makes it one of the earliest known co-operative villages on earth.

Day 7

Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) - Petra

In this day we will go the back way from Little Petra to see the Monastery in Petra hiking all the way, lunch will be in Petra, then to the hotel in Petra for dinner and overnight.

Today we will take a full-day tour of Petra , the rose-red city half as old as time which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Petra is a city which was carved out of the Sharah Mountains by the Nabataeans.

There are hundreds of elaborate rock-cut tombs with intricate carvings as well as obelisks, temples, sacrificial altars, colonnaded streets, and high above, overlooking the valley, is the impressive (Al Deir ) Monastery, reached up a flight of 800 stone stairs.

Day 8

Petra – Wadi Rum

We will spend a full day in Petra to explore the ancient city of the Nabataeans, we will see the treasury, the Street of Facades, and the Roman Theater.

They were an industrious Arab people who settled here more than 2,000 years ago, turning it into an important junction for the silk, spice, and other trade routes that linked China, India, and southern Arabia with Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Rome.

Petra fell into obscurity for hundreds of years, its location and very existence kept a closely guarded secret by the local Bedouin, before being re-discovered by the Swiss explorer Burkhardt in 1812.

We will enter the city through the Siq, a narrow gorge over a kilometer in length, flanked on either side by soaring, 80 meter high cliffs to be confronted by Al Khazneh (The Treasury), Petra's most elaborate monument. Local legend has it that the rock-cut Treasury once held the gifts of Queen Sheba to Solomon.

As you enter the Petra valley you will be overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the place and its outstanding architectural achievements.

Then we climb up to see the high place of sacrifice and overlooking the city from the top then continue walking to Wadi Sabrah down to the restaurant for lunch.

After that back the same way through the Siq to transfer you to Wadi Rum for dinner and camping overnight.

Day 9

Wadi Rum

After breakfast we will enjoy Wadi Rum's enchanting pink and white desert sands.

Vast, silent and timeless, Wadi Rum possesses one of the most beautiful desert scapes in the world. Rock carvings mark the passage of ancient tribes in pre-history.

Thamud inscriptions, burial mounds, ancient megaliths and ruined buildings abound, Nabataeans rock carved stairways, dams, and temples can still be found throughout the area.

Wadi Rum is perhaps best known because of its connection with Lawrence of Arabia and we follow in the enigmatic British officer's footsteps as we drive through the surreal moonscape.

We will stay in Wadi Rum until the late afternoon to explore the area in detail and to watch the gorgeous desert sunset.

Travel in Wadi Rum is a journey to another world, where one can escape the worries of everyday life and return to nature and the simple life. In this immense space, man is dwarfed into insignificance.

We will spend a full day trekking on camel back in Wadi Rum, then have dinner and stay overnight at the same camp.

Then we will eat the traditional, freshly prepared, Jordanian dinner provided by our genial Bedouin hosts and staying overnight for the next couple of days.  In a deluxe campsite with clean comfortable beds and hot showers.

Local Bedouin tribes have now inhabited this area for a number of generations.

Visitors who are invited to share mint tea or cardamon coffee in a traditional Bedouin black tent, or perhaps sitting by the fire under a starry desert sky, will have an experience not to be forgotten.

Day 10

Wadi Rum - Al Kharazeh - Diseh

We will spend a full day trekking on camels back in Wadi Rum, we will visit: Al Kharazeh then to Diseh, then have dinner and overnight at the same camp.

Day 11

Wadi Rum – Queen Alia International Airport

We will spend a half day on trekking in Wadi Rum, then to the airport for departure with farewell.