• 5 Dinner (D)
• 6 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: Savor local flavors over dinner with your Travel Director and fellow travelers.
• 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 flavors as you experience a traditional desert dinner when you dine at the Ammarin Bedouin camp.
• Amman: Toast to your adventures with your fellow travelers 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 Amphitheater and the Archaeological Museum.
• Amman: Explore Amman’s street art scene on a guided graffiti walking tour.

Explore Madaba’s Greek Orthodox Church of St George to witness the famed Madaba Map, a 6th-century floor mosaic and the earliest surviving map of the Holy Land. Trace ancient cities, rivers, and roads, with Jerusalem at its center.

Madaba’s mosaic tradition bridges Byzantine and early Islamic eras, celebrated in workshops across town. The map’s artistry and geographic precision reveal how pilgrims once navigated sacred landscapes, rendered in tiny tesserae of color and stone.

Explore the hilltop Crusader fortress of Shobak (Montreal), its ring of arrow-holed towers guarding sweeping desert views. Examine Arabic inscriptions from later periods and venture into secret passages that hint at sieges and survival.

Founded in 1115 to command the King’s Highway, Shobak later passed to Ayyubid and Mamluk hands, layering the site with additions and adaptations. Its isolated setting and rugged masonry evoke frontier life on the fault line of medieval empires.

Meet local artisans at the visit the Iraq Al-Amir Women’s Cooperative, a community-run initiative supporting villages in Wadi Seer. Watch demonstrations of traditional handicrafts such as paper-making, ceramics, weaving, and soap crafting, and learn how skills translate into livelihoods.

This uplifting encounter advances UN SDGs 5 and 11, fostering gender equity and resilient communities. Engage in conversation, appreciate the finesse of handwork, and consider supporting the cooperative through ethically made souvenirs.

Enjoy lunch at Beit Khairat Souf, a women-owned community café set in a welcoming family home near Jerash. Savor home-style Jordanian recipes prepared with seasonal ingredients—think fresh salads, warm breads, and herb-rich dishes rooted in local tradition.

This Make Travel Matter experience empowers women toward financial independence while celebrating culinary heritage. Hear how the café creates training and jobs, connecting guests with enterprising hosts who nourish both community and traveler.

Relish a Farm-to-Table lunch in Madaba, showcasing fresh local organic produce from the surrounding plateau. Taste bright mezze, freekeh grains, olives, and garden vegetables, drizzled with peppery Jordanian oil and paired with warm, just-baked bread.

Learn how hosts connect with local farmers to champion seasonality and sustainable sourcing. This convivial meal turns regional agriculture into flavor—rooted in land, climate, and the people who cultivate both.

Savor a traditional Bedouin-style dinner at the Ammarin Bedouin camp, set against sandstone cliffs that glow at dusk. Sample tender meats and vegetables slowly cooked underground—Jordan’s beloved zarb—alongside aromatic rice and spiced salads.

Share stories with your hosts as constellations brighten the starlit desert backdrop. The evening’s easy camaraderie and fragrant smoke from the earth oven offer a cultural exchange as memorable as the flavors.

Join a stone mosaic class to learn ancient mosaic techniques—selecting tesserae, setting patterns, and grouting—to create your own keepsake. Guided by local artisans, you’ll translate motifs into color and stone with hands-on precision.

Jordan’s mosaic heritage, famed in nearby Madaba, informs designs inspired by Byzantine churches, desert flora, and Red Sea life. The workshop blends patience and artistry, revealing how small pieces form enduring stories.

Join a guided tour of Amman to the hilltop Citadel (Jabal al-Qal’a), where the Temple of Hercules and Umayyad Palace overlook the city’s white-stone quarters. Continue to the Roman Theater and browse artifacts at the Archaeological Museum.

Unpack layers from Roman Philadelphia to the modern Hashemite capital while admiring skyline views across seven historic hills. This is an included Choice experience—select it at no additional cost on tour in place of the street-art walk.

Explore Amman’s creative side on a guided street-art walk, tracing bold murals across Jabal Amman and Al-Balad. Decode layers of calligraffiti, color, and symbolism that speak to identity, migration, and everyday city life.

Meet the contemporary scene where cafés, galleries, and studios spark conversation and community. This is an included Choice experience—select it at no additional cost on tour in place of the city-highlights visit.

Explore Petra with a guided approach through the shadowed gorge of the walk the Siq, where rose-red cliffs close in and anticipation builds. Emerge to see the Treasury (Al-Khazneh), its intricate facade carved straight from sandstone, before continuing along the Street of Facades to the Roman Theater and weathered Nabataean tombs.

Hear how this caravan capital flourished on frankincense and spice routes, mastering water management in an arid land. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders, Petra rewards unhurried exploration—its chiseled details and shifting light invite you to pause for photos and reflection.

Venture by 4×4 on a jeep safari through Wadi Rum, the evocative Valley of the Moon. Glide over ochre sands beneath towering sandstone jebels, discover ancient petroglyphs etched by early desert inhabitants, and feel the hush of vast open plains.

Stories of T.E. Lawrence, Nabataean traders, and Bedouin traditions sit within this UNESCO-protected wilderness of sculpted rock bridges and wind-carved canyons. Shifting desert light paints the cliffs amber and violet, heightening the sense of scale and the desert’s profound stillness.

Discover Jerash, among the world’s best-preserved Roman provincial cities. Enter through Hadrian’s Arch to the vast Oval Plaza, stroll the colonnaded Cardo Maximus, and admire the soaring columns of the Temple of Artemis and the city’s elegant nymphaeum.

Once a proud member of the Decapolis, Jerash reveals paved streets grooved by chariot wheels and public spaces designed for civic life. Test the fine acoustics at the South Theater and trace layered histories that connect Rome’s frontier with Jordan’s timeless hills.

Visit Mount Nebo to view the Promised Land across the Jordan Valley, Dead Sea, and, on clear days, the hills around Jerusalem. Step inside the Mosaic-clad Memorial Church of Moses to contemplate early Christian artistry and serene monastic spaces.

Since Late Antiquity, pilgrims have stood here to honor the biblical moment when Moses gazed across this panorama. Intricate floor mosaics—hunting scenes, vines, and pastoral life—deepen the site’s spiritual resonance and connect faith, landscape, and memory.

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