11-Day Jordan Highlights Tour from Amman
Highlights
Amman, Petra, Aqaba, Jerash, al Karak, Dead Sea (Jordan), Madaba, Wadi Rum, Ajloun, Al Salt, Iraq al-Amir
Locations Covered
Amman, Petra, Aqaba, Jerash, al Karak, Dead Sea (Jordan), Madaba, Wadi Rum, Ajloun, Al Salt, Iraq al-Amir
cultural, historical, sightseeing
Group Tour
11 Days
Easy
English, Filipino, French, German
Languages
English, Filipino, French, German
Description
Spend a night in a Bedouin camp, head to the Rose City for a guided tour. Via the King's Way, you travel to the old caravan route to reach the lowest point on earth for a leisure day. Visit historical sites in Jordan's important cities. Explore Jerash, Aqaba, Wadi Rum and more in this 11-day tour around Jordan!
Itinerary
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Day 1: Amman to Aqaba
- Upon arrival at Amman Airport, the representative will meet you with a Petra Nights Tours Sign after you pass through the customs.
- Transfer about 4 hours to Aqaba hotel, check-in for an overnight stay, and the rest of the day is free.
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Day 2: Aqaba at Leisure
Free day to enjoy the Red Sea resort of Aqaba. Just relax, explore the duty-free shopping facilities or have fun with popular water activities like swimming, snorkelling or diving (not included).
Overnight in Aqaba.
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Day 3: Aqaba City Tour & Wadi Rum Jeep Ride
After breakfast, have a round in Aqaba, visiting the Mamluk Fort and the House of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali.
See the archaeological dig Ayla and time for some duty-free shopping in the Souq.
Continue to Wadi Rum, one of the most impressing desert landscapes in the world.
Explore the area by a jeep ride to see rugged mountains, canyons, sand dunes and rock inscriptions from Thamudic and Nabatean period.
Dinner & overnight at camp.
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Day 4: Petra Tour
After breakfast, drive 2.5 hrs to the red rose city of 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 laid the foundation of a commercial empire that extended into Syria.
With the guide pass the canyon, the so called Siq, to see the most beautiful monument: the Treasury.
Continue via the Street of Facades to the Royal Tombs and Pharaoh's Castle.
After that, free time to explore Petra on your own. Walk the same way back to the entrance.
Overnight at Petra.
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Day 5: Shobak Castle to Dana View to Kings Way to Madaba to Mt Nebo to Dead Sea
After breakfast, drive to Shobak to visit an ancient crusader castle perched on the side of a rocky, conical mountain.
Driving ahead, enjoy the scenic views of Dana.
Continue along the famous ancient caravan route the King's Way.
Short stop in Wadi Al-Mujib, a great wide valley with magnificent geological formation.
Reach Madaba, where you find the famous mosaic 6th-century map of Palestine in St. George’s church and to the Archaeological Park where you can see more ancient mosaics.
Continue to Mt. Nebo, the place where Prophet Moses gazed at the Promised Land before he died.
Proceed to the lowest point on the earth, the Dead Sea, where ever since the days of Herod the Great, people have flocked to in search of its curative secrets.
Check-in for an overnight stay.
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Day 6: Dead Sea at Leisure
Breakfast and overnight at the hotel. No other services provided.
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Day 7: Amman City Tour
Free morning to enjoy the beach and amenities of Dead Sea hotel.
After check out, drive back to Jordan's capital Amman, to visit the Citadel with the remains of the Umayyad Palace and the Hercules Temple, as well as the Archaeological Museum with its excellent collection.
In downtown, see the Roman Theatre from the 2nd century and the traditional souks.
Then, stroll in Jabal Amman with its 19th-century houses, in one of them the late King Hussein had been born.
Transfer to Amman hotel, check-in & overnight.
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Day 8: 4 Desert Castles
Start 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.
Continue to Qasr Hallabat, a Roman fortress constructed under Emperor Caracalla and serves as a protection from Bedouin tribes.
Back to the hotel in Amman.
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Day 9: Ajloun to Jerash
After breakfast, leave Amman, and drive to Ajloun to visit the great 12th-century Islamic castle built around 1184/85 by the famous Islamic leader Salah al-Din.
Continue to Jerash, the best example of a Roman provincial city in the whole Middle East comprising paved and collonaded streets, soaring hilltop temples, handsome theatres, and spacious public squares and plazas.
Back to Amman hotel.
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Day 10: Salt City to Iraq Al Amir
After pick up from the hotel, drive to the town Salt. Here you walk along Hammam Street to see the highlights of the 19th-century architecture of this period, houses with long-arched windows in picturesque narrow streets. Well-known is the Abu Jaber mansion, built between 1892 and 1906, reputed to be the finest example of a 19th-century merchant house in the region.
From here, drive through a picturesque valley to the village of Iraq Al-Amir, to have a traditional lunch meal at the Women's Cooperative. The women make a living with the production of pottery and carpets so that you can have at the same time a look at the making of traditional handicraft.
Close to the village, view Qasr Al-Abd, an example of Hellenistic architecture in Jordan.
Transfer to Amman hotel for overnight.
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Day 11: Final Departure
Latest check out by 12:00 pm, according to departure time 1 hr transfer to Amman to board your flight.
What's Included
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
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