The Best of Jordan (8 Days)

Breakfast – depart to Ajloun, the Islamic castle Ajloun stands on top of 1123 meter high Jabel Auf. It was built in 1185 by the famous General Sultan Salah Ad-din to protect the country against the Crusader attacks and to secure the pilgrim routes & was re-built on XIII century after Mongol destruction. Continue driving to the one of Decapolis Cities, Jerash, the best example of a Roman provincial city in the Middle East, which is only 50 km north of Amman. Jerash was built by Alexander the Great in 332BC and started to prosper after the Roman conquest in 63BC. The Artemis Temple, the theatres, the Colonnaded Street and many other ancient buildings give you the feeling of the great civilization and the history of the region. End of day tour, return back to Amman. Dinner and Overnight.

monuments carved into the rock by the Nabataeans. The Treasury, famous and internationally known monument featured in the Indiana Jones film The Last Crusade movie, the Tombs of colors, the Royal Tombs, the Monastery. Petra is one of Visiting the Red Rose City, the capital of the Nabataeans. During the visit, discover the most important and representative those places in the world where you have to go at least once in a lifetime. Then proceed to Aqaba at night. Dinner and Overnight.

Breakfast then enjoy the south of Jordan and experience this dramatic desert landscape with its beautiful rock formations. Visitors can enjoy approximately a two hours Jeep tour coached by Bedouins (6 pax per vehicle) visiting the beautiful landscape built by the action of the erosion on the mountain’s rocky and the fine red tonalities – coloured-sands. Dinner and Overnight.

Breakfast then drive through the desert road to the hill, to reach to Jordan Valley/Dead Sea the Salt

Lake between Israel and Jordan is the lowest point on earth, about 400m below sea level. The Dead Sea is mainly supplied by water from the Jordan River. While it is an experience to bath without sinking, the mineral-rich Dead Sea offers more; as it was one of the first spas in the world. Herod the Great, king of Judaea used it in the 1st century BC as health treatment. The water and the special conditions of the area have positive effects on dermatological and rheumatic diseases. Free time at leisure. Dinner and overnight

FREE DAY IN DEAD SEA

Breakfast and departure for the border with Israel and Palestine, in search of the Jordan River. We will dedicate this day to visit one of the most mystical and spiritual places in Jordan. We visit Bethany, the place where Jesus was baptized by St.John the Evangelist. The Jordanian enclave of Bethany was opened to visitors in 2000 and Pope John Paul II attended its inauguration as a sign of its recognition by the Vatican. Place of the Baptism of Jesus "Bethany beyond the Jordan"