• 7 Dinner (D)
• 8 Breakfast (B)
• 2 Lunch (L)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Amman: Savour local flavours over dinner with your Travel Director and fellow travellers.
• Madaba: Head to a local restaurant for a Farm-to-Table lunch, made with fresh local organic produce and hear how they connect with local farmers to build a community of conscious food producers.
• Petra: Taste authentic Jordanian flavours as you experience a traditional desert dinner when you dine at the Ammarin Bedouin camp.
• Amman: Toast to your adventures with your fellow travellers at a lively dinner.

• Aqaba: Join a stone mosaic class to learn about the ancient art of mosaic design and craft your own masterpiece.

• Amman: During a city tour of Amman, visit the Citadel, the grand Roman Amphitheatre and the Archaeological Museum.
• Amman: Explore Amman’s street art scene on a guided graffiti walking tour.

Explore the Greek Orthodox St George Church to view the celebrated Madaba Map, a 6th-century floor mosaic that charts the Holy Land from the Nile Delta to Damascus. Its colored tesserae sketch cities, roads and sacred sites with remarkable clarity.

Hear how this cartographic treasure, rediscovered in the 19th century, guides scholars in locating ancient towns. As light falls across the nave, the mosaic’s ships, gates and walls seem to sail through time, connecting scripture, archaeology and living tradition.

Explore Shobak Crusader Castle—also known as Montreal—perched on a lonely hill above the King’s Highway. Wander the battlements, trace Arabic inscriptions carved after Ayyubid conquest, and step inside the Crusader chapel to picture knights safeguarding caravan routes.

Learn how King Baldwin I founded this frontier stronghold in 1115 and how it later fell to Saladin. Seek out hidden passages rumored to lead to a spring, and feel centuries peel back as desert winds sweep through arrow slits and vaulted chambers.

Join a guided city tour of Amman to the hilltop Citadel (Jabal al-Qala’a), surveying the skyline of white stone. Visit the Temple of Hercules, Umayyad Palace remains, the grand Roman Theatre, and the Jordan Archaeological Museum to trace millennia of regional history.

Discover how Amman evolved from ancient Rabbath-Ammon to Philadelphia of the Decapolis and into a modern capital. The layered past reveals Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic chapters, all within a compact historic core alive with markets and cafés.

Explore a guided graffiti walk through downtown and Jabal al-Weibdeh, reading the city’s walls as an open-air gallery. See colour-splashed murals, calligraffiti scripts and stencil art that reflect youth culture, identity and everyday life in Amman.

Hear stories of local artists and community projects that use public art to reimagine stairways, alleys and facades. The route blends cultural commentary with photography moments, revealing a creative scene flourishing beside Roman stones and Ottoman lanes.

Visit the Iraq Al-Amir Women’s Co-operative for a hands-on MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience. Meet artisans keeping traditional crafts alive as you observe or try techniques such as papermaking, pottery and weaving that support livelihoods in the Wadi as-Seer communities.

Learn how this women-led social enterprise provides training, dignified work and preservation of heritage skills. Your visit contributes to economic empowerment and cultural continuity, with the workshop’s stone buildings nestled near the Hellenistic site of Qasr al-Abd.

Taste Jordan’s countryside at a Farm-to-Table lunch hosted by the women of Beit Khairat Souf. Savor seasonal Jordanian dishes—think fragrant mezze, slow-cooked stews and garden-fresh salads—served in a family home turned women-owned café.

Hear how the initiative fosters independence and community leadership while championing local producers. The warm hospitality, heirloom recipes and stone-house setting create a delicious window into everyday life in the hills north of Jerash.

Join a hands-on Stone Mosaic Class in a local atelier, learning how artisans cut and set tesserae into geometric and floral designs. Under expert guidance, craft your own piece to take home, gaining insight into the patience and precision behind this enduring art.

Connect Jordan’s living craft tradition with masterpieces seen in Madaba’s churches. The tactile rhythm of arranging stone and the studio’s scent of lime and pigment make this cultural session both meditative and memorable.

Experience a traditional Bedouin dinner at the atmospheric Ammarin Bedouin camp near Petra. Taste zarb cooked underground, breads hot from the saj, and spiced rice while music and desert breezes set the scene beneath a canopy of stars.

Learn the meanings of Bedouin hospitality and storytelling, and how shared meals bind community in arid lands. The aromas of cardamom and smoke, the glow of lanterns and a desert night sky create a rare sense of place.

Float effortlessly in the mineral-rich waters of the Dead Sea, Earth’s lowest elevation on land. The hypersaline buoyancy and warm shallows invite unhurried relaxation along honey-colored shores fringed with salt crystals.

Apply therapeutic Dead Sea mud renowned for its skin-soothing properties, then unwind at your resort’s pools or spa facilities. The stark rift-valley scenery and mirror-calm water add a contemplative calm to this restorative experience.

Visit Bethany Beyond the Jordan, the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the eastern bank of the Jordan River associated with the baptism of Jesus. Walk boardwalks to excavated baptismal pools, chapels and hermit caves set among tamarisk and reeds.

Hear how archaeology and tradition converge at this riverside sanctuary, with remains dating to Roman and Byzantine times. This Optional Experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability and local conditions.

Ride deep into Wadi Rum on a guided jeep safari, where wind-sculpted dunes meet monolithic sandstone massifs. Feel the stillness of the desert as you cross broad valleys, pausing to photograph towering rock bridges and copper-red sands that glow in the high desert light.

Hear stories of Bedouin life and the region’s links to Lawrence of Arabia while spotting ancient petroglyphs and seasonal camel caravans. The scale and silence of this protected wilderness deliver a rare sense of solitude and space, with each cliff face revealing layers of geological time.

Discover the best-preserved Roman city in the Middle East as you enter through Hadrian’s Arch and join a guided exploration of Jerash. Stroll the Temples of Artemis and Zeus, then step onto the oval perfection of the Oval Plaza and Cardo Maximus, lined with rhythmic colonnades and chariot-scored paving stones.

Sense daily Roman life at the nymphaeum and theatres, and test the famed acoustics at the Whispering Column. As part of the Decapolis, Jerash flourished on trade and imperial patronage—its streets, arches and baths reveal textbook urban planning from Rome’s golden age.

Visit Mount Nebo and take in the view of the Promised Land stretching across the Jordan Valley to the Dead Sea and, on clear days, Jericho and Jerusalem. The windswept ridge invites quiet reflection amid juniper and olive.

Learn how this revered site—traditionally linked to Moses’ final ascent—became a pilgrimage destination. Step into the Franciscan complex to admire ancient floor mosaics, where vines, birds and hunters testify to a long artistic tradition preserved with care.

Insight Vacations

Walk the shadowed chasm of the Siq to where the sandstone walls part and the The Treasury (Al-Khazneh) blazes into view. Your Travel Director reveals Petra’s essential monuments as you trace Nabataean water channels and the rose-red facades carved straight from living rock in this UNESCO-listed rose-red city.

Explore further along the Street of Facades to the Roman Theatre and Royal Tombs, learning how trade caravans once enriched this desert capital. Sense the ingenuity of the Nabataeans in their dam and cistern systems, and appreciate the shifting hues that paint Petra from apricot to crimson as the sun arcs overhead.