8 Day Hiking Tour

of Jordan

Amman – Al Balad - Jebel Al Qala'a - Umm Qais (Gadara) – Ajlun (Ar Rabad Castle) – Jerash – Madaba – Greek Orthodox Church of St. George – Mount Nebo – Karak Castle – Dana Nature Reserve - Wadi Feinan – Wadi Araba – Wadi Namala – Al Beidha – Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) - 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 our take a city tour then to the hotel in Amman to stay overnight.

Day 2

Amman - Umm Qais (Gadara) – Ajlun (Ar Rabad Castle) – Jerash – Madaba

After breakfast, we will be transferred northwards to Umm Qais (Gadara) viewing the Tiberius Lake and the Syrian Borders.

Then we will move to Ajlun (Ar Rabad Castle) and watching the castle viewing the Jordan River bank and then to Jerash to visit the ancient Roman city with its well preserved amphitheatre and arena.

We can also have our lunch in Jerash.

Then we will move towards Madaba for overnight.

Day 3

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

After breakfast in our hotel, we will act a visit to the Mosaic Christian Church and Mount Nebo.

Then we move ahead to the Dead Sea for some time on the shore.

We will after that move to Karak to take a visit of the Crusader Castle there.

We will also have lunch there.

Then we will travel along the Kings' Highway to the Dana Natural Reserve to stay overnight.

Day 4

Dana Nature Reserve – Wadi Feinan

After breakfast in our hotel, we will begin out hiking tour starting from Dana Village through the Valley of Dana enjoying our way until we reach Feinan Village where we will stay in tents.

Day 5

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

After breakfast, we will continue our way, on camels, for about 8 hours through the wide Wadi Araba towards Wadi Namala where we will be met by cars to transfer us to Al Beidha and Siq Al Barid (Little Petra) near to Petra.

We will stay there camping overnight with a possible private Arabian music performance in caves or on hilly rocks.

Day 6

Al Beidha – Petra

After breakfast, we will move to Petra, which is very near, to take a full day visit to the sight of Petra.

Petra is a treasure of the ancient world and definitely a highlight of any trip to Jordan.

It is hidden behind an almost impenetrable barrier of rugged mountains and boasts incomparable scenes making it perhaps the most majestic and imposing ancient site still standing today.

It is the legacy of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2,000 years ago and who carved their new capital out of the rose-red Sharah Mountains.

The site contains refined culture, massive architecture and an ingenious complex of dams and water channels.

For our first hours in Petra you can have an English speaking guide who will show you around the numerous highlights including the Treasury (El-Khazneh) which has an intricately carved façade that glows in the sun, the theatre and the Royal Tombs.

For the remainder of the day you will be able to wander at your leisure; one monument leading to the next for kilometer after kilometer.

The sheer size of the city and quality of the beautifully carved facades at Petra is staggering, almost overwhelming and there are over 800 individual monuments in total, including buildings, tombs, baths, funerary halls, temples, gateways, and colonnaded streets to admire, mostly carved from the kaleidoscopic sandstone by the technical and artistic genius of its inhabitants.

At the end of the day you will walk back past gift shops where you can buy a souvenir or gift to accompany your treasured memories. We will drive to a hotel in Petra for our dinner and an overnight stay.

We will stay overnight in Wadi Musa, the very nearest city to Petra, in a hotel.

Day 7

Petra – Wadi Rum

After breakfast, we will take a short round into Wadi Musa.

Then we will move ahead to Wadi Rum to have a 4 X 4 Jeep tour into the marvelous Jordanian Desert with its fascinating sand dunes.

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

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.

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.

Rock carvings mark the passage of ancient tribes in pre-history.

Thamudic inscriptions, burial mounds, ancient megaliths, ruined buildings abound, Nabataean 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.

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 8

Wadi Rum – Queen Alia International Airport

In the other day morning after breakfast depending on the time allowed we can hike around Wadi Rum after that have our lunch, and then you will be transferred to Amman Airport for departure.