DAY 1: Saturday - Depart from USA
- Depart the USA to start your journey back on time to the ancient land. 2 Meals will be served on board of your overnight flight.
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DAY 2: Sunday - Arrival to Amman
- Upon arrival at Queen Alia Airport, our consultant will meet and support you via the traditions and immigration methods.
- Then you will be moved to your hotel in Amman for an immediately stay, dinner will be served at your hotel..
- Meal: Dinner
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DAY 3: Monday - Amman - Desert Castles
- After breakfast meet your manual to start your Amman town tour. You will visit the gorgeous Roman Amphitheater and the Citadel.
- After lunch at a local eating place, which is included in your system, drive to the wasteland castle of Azraq. Next, visit the 8th century Omayyad castles of Amra and Kharaneh.
- Ardent hunters, the Omayyads used the castles as lodges for their searching parties.
- Return to your hotel in Amman.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 4: Tuesday - Amman - Jerash & Ajloun
- After breakfast, drive to the great Crusaders Fortress Of Ajlun (Qalat Rabadh). This is an Islamic Fortress built high on a hill missing the entire Jordan area below.
- Drive via the pine forests and olive groves until you reach the historic Greco Roman city of Jerash. Enjoy the tour via the colonnaded roads, amphitheater, churches, temples and the vast Roman Forum.
- Return to your hotel in Amman for dinner and overnight.
- Meal: Breakfast, Dinner
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DAY 5: Wednesday - Amman - Mabada - Mt. Nebo - Kerak - Petra
- After breakfast, depart for a tour to the south of Amman to visit the holy city of Madaba, which has some of the finest Byzantine mosaics in the world, including the famous 6th century original mosaic floor map of the Holyland in St. Georges Cathedral.
- Continue on to Mount Nebo, the highest in the Moabit range, which has been a center for pilgrimages since earliest Christian times.
- Drive via Kings Highway via Wadi Al Mujib, a deep and majestic cut through rugged highlands that drains into the Dead Sea.
- Continue on to visit Kerak Castle, which is the largest late Islamic castle in Jordan. It was initially constructed in the Crusader period and expanded and refortified during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods.
- Continue on to your hotel in Petra for an overnight stay.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 6: Thursday - Petra - The Treasury
- After breakfast, enjoy your full-day tour of the Red Rose City of Petra. You will begin the 1st part of your unforgettable trip on horseback and the rest of the way will be on foot through the deep and narrow passages till you reach the Treasury.
- The Nabateans carved this capital from the living rock of the surrounding mountains in Petra.
- Among the other monuments that will be seen today are the Pharaohs Castle, the Triumphal arch, the Amphitheater and the Monastery. Lunch at a restaurant inside the Old Cave.
- Return to your hotel in Petra for an overnight stay.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 7: Friday - Petra - Wadi Rum
- After breakfast, drive to little Petra (Al-Beidah) where the ruins of this ancient village date back some 9000 years. It is one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Middle East.
- Continue your tour to Wadi Rum, a vast, silent landscape of ancient, pastel-colored riverbeds, the largest and the most magnificent of Jordans deserts.
- Take a 4 hour 4X4 vehicle ride into the oasis with its awesome moon-like landscape, crisscrossed with countless valleys of stunning beauty.
- Overnight at tented Camp in Wadi Rum.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 8: Saturday - Wadi Rum - Dead Sea - Amman
- After breakfast, transfer to the Dead Sea beach, enjoy your free day to relax, float in the waters of the Dead Sea, or use the facilities of the hotel spa, where you can indulge in the therapeutic secrets of the Dead Sea.
- Transfer to our hotel in Amman for overnight.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 9: Sunday - Departure
- After breakfast, transfer to Amman airport for your departure flight.
- Meal: Breakfast
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