7 Day Cycling Tour

Amman - Al Balad - Jebel Al Qala'a – Madaba – Greek Orthodox Church of St. George – Mount Nebo – Dead Sea – Karak Castle – Dana Nature Reserve – Shobak Castle – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) – Al Beidha – Petra – Wadi Rum

Day 1

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

Welcome to Jordan! Upon arrival at any time, you will be met and assisted by our representatives there in Amman airport.

After that we will be transferred to your hotel in Amman for a city tour then dinner and to stay overnight.

Day 2

Amman – Madaba - Greek Orthodox Church of St. George – Mount Nebo – Dead Sea – Karak Castle

After breakfast in our hotel, we will move ahead to Madaba to take a visit to the Mosaic Christian Church and Mount Nebo.

There, our cycling tour starts to cycle downhill to the Dead Sea to swim for some time in the salty water under the sea level with about 240 m.

After that we will move ahead on our bicycles to Karak; we visit Karak Castle and have dinner and stay overnight in a hotel or a camp.

Meanwhile, we will find the best place for lunch time.

Day 3

Karak – Dana Nature Reserve

After breakfast, we will be cycling for sometime in Karak Castle in a very good place for such sport and after that we will go, cycling, to Dana Nature Reserve through Tafila.

In Dana, we will have dinner and stay overnight in a simple hotel since there is only budget hotels there. Meanwhile, we will find the best place for lunch time.

Day 4

Dana Village – Shobak Castle – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) – Al Beidha

After breakfast in our hotel, we will, on our bicycles, pass by Dana Village and Shobak Castle until we reach Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) and Al Beidha, which are very near to the site of Petra.

We will stay there in a camp after having dinner with Bedouin Music. Meanwhile, we will find the best place for lunch time.

Day 5

Petra

After breakfast, we will, hiking, move to the site in Petra, which is very near, to have a full-day visit to the marvelous Nabataean city.

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.

We will go on the back way through the Monastery ( Al Deir ), the second best place after the treasury. We will continue our way visiting (Petra City Center; Tombs, Court, Roman Theatre, and Caves) till we reach the Treasury.

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.

Then we go through the Siq up to the city of Wadi Musa where we will stay overnight in a hotel after having dinner.

Meanwhile, we will find the best place for lunch time.

Day 6

Petra – Wadi Rum

After breakfast, we will move to someplace near the city of Wadi Musa by bus to act cycling sport for two hours.

Then, our cycling tour ends up because we are going to Wadi Rum where we cannot ride bikes.

In the great valley of Wadi Rum, we will take a 4 X 4 Jeep tour into the amazing Jordanian Desert with its fascinating sand dunes.

We will have dinner & stay there in Wadi Rum in a tourist camp.

Day 7

Wadi Rum – Queen Alia International Airport

In the other day morning after breakfast, we will be transferred to the airport or borders for departure.