• 3 Dinner (D)
• 7 Breakfast (B)
• 4 Lunch (L)

• Amman: Explore Amman with a Local Guide, taking in the Citadel and Archaeological Museum before stepping inside the city’s ancient Amphitheatre and Folklore Museum. A solid intro to the layers, stories, and everyday rhythm of Jordan’s capital.
• Amman: Visit the TreadRight-supported Iraq Al-Amir Women’s Co-operative Society to see the work they are doing to make local women financially independent. Plus, you’ll enjoy a delicious lunch of local specialties. 
• Jerash: Get your Indiana Jones hat on and tour this ancient city. See the 2nd Century Hadrian’s Arch, Corinthian Columns at Temple of Artemis and the Oval Forum Colonnade.  
• Jerash: Sit down to a home-style Jordanian meal featuring dishes like maglouba, mansaf, kabsah, and imsakhan made with locally grown sumac, all served family-style. The restored stone house dates back to 1881 and once brought the local community together. Today, it’s a women-led social enterprise supporting local women and young people through food and community collaboration. Expect generous flavours, shared stories, and a setting rooted in heritage, empowerment, and connection.
• Dana Nature Reserve: Head out on an easy hike through the Dana Nature Reserve, following the Shaq Al-Reesh Trail for a few relaxed hours. Expect winding paths through rocky canyons, wide valley views, and plenty of chances to slow down and take it all in. Easygoing, scenic, and well worth the steps.
• Petra: Hike from Little Petra into Petra via the quieter backdoor route, following desert paths framed by sandstone cliffs and wide-open views. A slower, more scenic approach that builds the anticipation before stepping into the main site.
• Petra: It’s an archaeology treasure trove! Grab your camera and get to know the ‘rose city’: one of the seven Wonders of the World. 
• Wadi Rum: Settle in for a desert stay with proper comfort at Amber Camp. Think: spacious rooms with aircon, private bathrooms and your very own balcony for those mountain-and-sand views. Plus, there’s a sun terrace and garden space.
• Wadi Rum: Explore Wadi Rum by 4×4 on a two-hour Bedouin-led jeep ride, weaving through desert landscapes and stopping at places like Siq Um Tawaqi, ancient rock inscriptions, and iconic viewpoints along the way. Big spaces, deep history, and desert scenes that don’t need a filter.
• Dead Sea: We’ll stop at the Holiday Inn Dead Sea for lunch and time to float in the salty water. No swimming skills required — just lean back, relax, and enjoy one of the strangest, most relaxing dips out there.

Contiki

Meet your fellow travellers over dinner at a local restaurant in Amman. This shared meal is an opportunity to get acquainted with the group while settling into the lively rhythm of Jordan’s capital.

Amman’s dining tables bring people together over conversation and local flavours. The welcome dinner offers a relaxed introduction to that hospitality, with your travelling companions gathered around the table at the start of the trip.

Explore Amman with a Local Guide, taking in the hilltop Citadel and Archaeological Museum before visiting the ancient Amphitheatre and Folklore Museum. Together, these sites reveal the layers beneath the capital’s busy streets.

Look across the city from its historic heights and step inside a Roman theatre built into the hillside. Archaeological finds and exhibits on traditional life connect Amman’s ancient past with the customs of Jordan today.

Visit the Iraq Al-Amir Women’s Co-operative Society near Amman for a hands-on local activity and a lunch of Jordanian specialties. Meet an initiative supported by TreadRight that helps local women build financial independence through their work.

The experience offers a closer look at the people behind the crafts and food, rather than a passing stop. Sharing an activity and a meal makes the co-operative’s work tangible and connects your visit to the community it supports.

Tour the ancient city of Jerash, walking among colonnaded streets, public spaces and monumental gateways. See Hadrian’s Arch, built in the second century, along with the Oval Forum’s sweeping colonnade and the Corinthian columns of the Temple of Artemis.

Jerash preserves an unusually extensive Roman cityscape, making it possible to trace the shape of civic life on foot. Its stone avenues and grand ceremonial spaces give a vivid sense of the city’s former scale.

Share a home-style Jordanian meal at Bait Al-Khairat in Jerash, with generous dishes served family-style. Specialties may include maqluba, mansaf or musakhan, drawing on local ingredients such as sumac.

The setting is a restored stone house dating to 1881 that once brought the community together. Today, this women-led social enterprise supports local women and young people through food and collaboration, giving the meal a connection to the place and its people.

Hike the Shaq Al-Reesh Trail in Dana Nature Reserve, following winding paths through rocky canyons for a few relaxed hours. The route opens onto wide valley views, with time to take in the changing shapes and colours of the landscape.

Dana protects a striking stretch of Jordan’s highland terrain. This easygoing walk brings you close to its rugged rock formations without demanding a strenuous trek, offering a quieter perspective on the country’s natural scenery.

Share a Bedouin-style dinner at Ammarine Camp near Little Petra, with local flavours served around the table. Spend the night in the camp’s tents, away from the city lights and surrounded by the stillness of the desert.

Communal dining is central to the experience: a chance to slow down, talk and enjoy Jordanian hospitality in a landscape of sandstone and open sky. Quiet desert skies give the overnight stay a character distinct from a conventional hotel.

Hike the backdoor route from Little Petra into Petra, following quieter desert paths framed by sandstone cliffs and open views. On foot, there is time to notice the rock formations and shifting colours that are easy to miss from the road.

This approach makes the landscape part of the Petra experience, not merely a backdrop to its monuments. The gradual arrival offers a distinctive way to encounter the ancient Nabataean city and the terrain that surrounds it.

Explore Petra’s archaeological site and discover the rock-cut architecture that gives the ancient city its rose-red reputation. Enter the main site and spend time among the sandstone monuments of one of Jordan’s most celebrated landmarks.

Petra was a centre of the Nabataean kingdom, shaped by trade routes and remarkable stone-carving skill. Its facades and passages show how a city was built into this dramatic landscape, making the visit as much about its setting as its history.

Explore Wadi Rum by 4×4 on a two-hour Bedouin-led jeep ride through its broad desert valleys. Stops include places such as Siq Um Tawaqi and ancient rock inscriptions, alongside viewpoints that reveal the scale of the sandstone landscape.

Known for its red sand and towering rock formations, Wadi Rum holds traces of people who crossed and inhabited this desert over centuries. Travelling with a Bedouin driver adds a local perspective to the scenery and its history.

Stay at Amber Camp in Wadi Rum, with dinner and a night in the desert. The camp pairs its remote setting with comforts including air-conditioned accommodation, private bathrooms and balconies overlooking the surrounding sand and mountains.

Spend time on the sun terrace or in the garden as the light changes across the rock formations. Desert skies and deep quiet are the defining pleasures here, experienced without giving up the ease of a comfortable place to stay.

Float in the Dead Sea during a visit to the Holiday Inn Dead Sea resort, with lunch included. Lean back in the intensely salty water and feel its buoyancy support you at the surface; swimming skills are not required for this distinctive dip.

Set in the deep Jordan Rift Valley, the Dead Sea is known for its mineral-rich waters and exceptionally low elevation. The resort stop gives you time to experience the water for yourself rather than simply admire the shoreline.