• 6 Dinner (D)
• 6 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Amman: During a city tour of Amman, visit the Citadel, the grand Roman Amphitheater and the Archaeological Museum.
• Jerash: Feel like you have stepped back 2,000 years in time as your Travel Director guides you through this marvelous ancient metropolis – now the finest surviving example of a Greco-Roman city in the world!
• Mount Nebo: Take in the astounding view of Moses’ Promised Land, where the ruins are truly a site to behold.
• Petra: Grind beans by hand, roast them over open flames and brew traditional Bedouin coffee with your Local Specialist. As you craft each cup, hear stories passed down through generations, why it’s served in odd numbers and how it symbolises respect. A hands-on ritual that connects you to Bedouin culture, community and age-old hospitality.
• Petra: Join a Bedouin tribe and taste authentic Jordanian flavors as you experience a traditional desert dinner at a Bedouin camp.
• Petra: In the ‘Rose City’ of Petra, you’ll see tombs and temples carved into pink sandstone cliffs and admire the 45m-high facades of Al Khazneh, the Treasury.
• Wadi Rum: Enjoy the beauty of this arid landscape as you make your way through Wadi Rum’s majestic desert.

• Deluxe coach travel
• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• 4-star stays

Visit sacred highlands crowned by Mount Nebo, where tradition holds Moses glimpsed Moses’ Promised Land. On clear days the view stretches to the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, a landscape layered with biblical resonance and timeless desert light.

Continue to Madaba to examine the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map inside St George’s Church. This intricate floor mosaic charts the Holy Land’s towns and topography, revealing early Christian cartography and the region’s importance to pilgrims for centuries.

Connect with community impact at a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience hosted by the Iraq al-Amir Women’s Association. Watch artisans craft olive-oil soap and delicate recycled-paper handicrafts, then try your hand at these heritage skills guided by the women who keep them alive.

Enjoy a home-style lunch prepared on site, with your visit supporting economic opportunity and cultural preservation. This encounter offers real insight into Jordanian hospitality, resourcefulness, and the power of social enterprise to uplift rural communities.

Survey rugged hills from the ramparts of Shobak Castle, a remote Crusader stronghold guarding the caravan routes of southern Jordan. Explore towers, tunnels, and weathered stonework that speak to medieval sieges and the shifting fortunes of desert power.

Founded by King Baldwin I in the 12th century and later adapted by Ayyubid and Mamluk rulers, Shobak offers commanding desert panoramas and a tangible link to the age when faith, trade, and strategy carved fortresses into these stark landscapes.

Walk the dusky canyon as you walk the Siq, tracing ancient Nabataean water channels toward the luminous facade of Al Khazneh (the Treasury). Emerge to soaring columns carved from rose-red sandstone, a masterwork that announces Petra’s grandeur.

Continue along the Street of Facades and consult your guide among the Royal Tombs to decode symbolism, trade wealth, and engineering genius. Petra’s scale, color gradients, and cliff-cut architecture make it an emotive encounter with a once-hidden desert capital.

Share desert hospitality as you grind and roast cardamom coffee over open flames, learning why cups are served in odd numbers and how each pour conveys respect. This intimate ritual introduces the etiquette and warmth of Bedouin hospitality.

Dine on time-honored dishes—often including a fragrant, slow-cooked traditional zarb dinner—beneath flickering lanterns. Stories, poetry, and starry silence frame an evening where flavors, ritual, and landscape come together with disarming simplicity.

Cross sculpted valleys on a guided jeep tour through Wadi Rum’s amphitheaters of sand and stone. Navigate past wind-smoothed dunes, natural rock bridges, and canyon walls etched with ancient petroglyphs that hint at millennia of desert life.

Absorb the cinematic scale of towering sandstone massifs in a landscape immortalized by T.E. Lawrence. The interplay of light and shadow, silence and space, reveals the Jordanian desert’s austere beauty and enduring Bedouin presence.

Settle into a Bedouin desert camp framed by rust-red escarpments. As daylight softens, climb a nearby dune or vantage point to watch a breathtaking sunset ignite the sandstone in copper and gold tones.

Later, step into profound quiet under a star-studded sky. With minimal light pollution, constellations sharpen overhead, inviting reflection on trade caravans, nomad routes, and the timeless rhythm of desert nights.

Unwind at Earth’s lowest point on earth with time to float in the Dead Sea, buoyed by hyper-saline water that supports effortless relaxation. Smooth on therapeutic mineral-rich black mud said to soothe skin and muscles.

Between dips, appreciate the stark beauty of the Rift Valley escarpments. The stillness, crystalline salt formations, and desert light create a restorative interlude that complements Jordan’s archaeological riches.

Embrace Jordanian warmth at a Connect With Locals Be My Guest dinner hosted by an Amman family. Share home-cooked Jordanian dishes—think mezze, spiced rice, and grilled specialties—prepared with regional ingredients and time-honored techniques.

Conversations flow as your hosts recount stories of life in Amman, from neighborhood traditions to modern city rhythms. This convivial evening offers an authentic window into contemporary Jordanian culture and hospitality.

Visit Bethany Beyond the Jordan (al-Maghtas), revered as the baptism site of Jesus on the eastern bank of the Jordan River. Walk among trails leading to Byzantine chapels and baptismal pools as your guide shares archaeological insights and sacred traditions.

This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour. Pilgrimage heritage, riverside stillness, and layers of early Christian history make this a contemplative complement to the main itinerary.

Explore one of the Middle East’s best-preserved classical cities as you enter through Hadrian’s Arch and step onto the grand colonnaded Cardo Maximus. Your guide highlights the acoustics of the North Theater and the graceful geometry of the Oval Plaza, framed by Ionic and Corinthian columns.

Admire the lofty Temple of Artemis and imagine chariots clattering along the stone paving. Trade-route prosperity, Roman urban planning, and the city’s remarkable state of preservation make Jerash a vivid window into provincial life two millennia ago.

Discover Jordan’s capital on a half-day exploration as you join a guided panoramic tour taking in the hilltop Amman Citadel with views across the city’s seven hills. Wander past the Temple of Hercules and the Umayyad complex before descending to the 2nd-century Roman Amphitheater, hewn into the hillside and still commanding a majestic presence.

Gain cultural context at the Archaeological and Folklore Museums, tracing Amman’s story from Roman Philadelphia to modern Amman. Expect layered history, lively street scenes, and a clear sense of Jordan’s crossroads between Levant, desert, and Mediterranean worlds.

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