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Complimentary arrival transfers. For early arrivals, an optional walking tour connects Rainbow Street and Jabal al-Weibdeh, passing more than 30 murals; available to prebook on request. In the evening, meet your Signature Guide and fellow travellers for a welcome reception, then visit The Jordan Museum after hours with a specialist host. Dinner at Sufra Restaurant in a private area, with the chef presenting Levantine dishes.

Meals: Dinner

Travel north to Jerash and walk beneath Hadrian’s Arch and along the Cardo Maximus to the Oval Plaza. Return to Amman, then visit JR Wines for a private winery tour led by a third-generation family member and sample local wines. Dinner of traditional Jordanian dishes paired with the estate’s wines.

Meals: Breakfast,Dinner

Travel to Mount Nebo and view the Jordan Valley from the site associated with Moses seeing the Promised Land. Visit the church, where the resident priest shares perspectives on Christianity in Jordan and coexistence. Continue to Madaba to see the sixth-century mosaic map at St George’s Church and join a private mosaic-making workshop with local artisans. At Hekayet Sitti, cook traditional Jordanian dishes with your hosts and share lunch. Follow the King’s Highway south to Petra for dinner at your retreat.

Meals: Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner

Explore Petra on either the quieter Backdoor Trail with an archaeologist from Wadi Musa or the Main Trail with your Signature Guide. In the evening, share a private dinner of traditional dishes with a family in Wadi Musa, then return to Petra for Petra by Night, with candlelight and projections illuminating the Treasury.

Meals: Breakfast,Dinner

After breakfast, travel south to Wadi Rum and settle into the Rum Reserve Resort, with glass-roof rooms and private terraces. Enjoy a traditional Bedouin lunch, then take a guided 4×4 journey through canyons, arches and sandstone formations, learning about Bedouin life and desert lore. At night, join a private astronomy session with an expert to trace constellations, hear how Bedouins navigated by the stars and listen to desert legends.

Meals: Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner

Share breakfast with a local Bedouin family, make bread around the fire and taste freshly baked flatbread. Travel north from Wadi Rum, pausing for tea with locals, to Feynan Ecolodge in the Dana Biosphere Reserve. Have lunch at the lodge, featuring organic, locally sourced ingredients. Join a private Bedouin coffee-making ritual with music and ceremony, then take a private sunset hike in the mountains with a local guide.

Meals: Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner

Choose a walk with a local guide along ancient copper trails, with the chance to bake arbood bread, or join a shepherd and his goats along desert routes, sharing fire-cooked bread and tea. After lunch, travel north, stopping at the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth and the Wadi Mujib viewpoint before arriving at the Dead Sea hotel. Evening at leisure.

Meals: Breakfast,Lunch

Choose a Signature Day experience: explore Al-Salt’s Harmony Trail, museums and markets and share a home-cooked lunch in a restored heritage house (11:30–16:30); visit Bethany Beyond the Jordan (14:30–16:00); hike, wade and climb through Wadi Al Mujib (07:30–11:30); or visit the Desert Castles (07:30–14:30). In the evening, have a private farewell dinner at Rehan Restaurant in the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast,Dinner

Enjoy the morning at leisure by the Dead Sea waterfront or resort pools, or book a spa treatment at the Ishtar Spa. Take the complimentary departure transfer to the airport. Alternatively, extend your stay.

Meals: Breakfast

What’s included

Complimentary arrival and departure transfers, plus comfortable private vehicle transport throughout the journey.
Signature Guide throughout, offering insider knowledge and exceptional guest support.
Gratuities for local support staff included, so day-to-day logistics feel effortless.
All breakfasts, six lunches, and seven dinners included, showcasing authentic Jordanian cuisine — from a family-hosted feast in Wadi Musa and a hands-on cooking class in Madaba to a vineyard dinner in Amman and a farewell dinner at Rehan Restaurant.
8 nights of elegant, hand-picked accommodation (6 Premium nights, 2 Superior Comfort nights): The House Boutique Suites, Amman (2); Hayat Zaman Hotel & Resort, Petra (2); Rum Reserve Resort by Luxotel, Wadi Rum (1); Signature Stay at Feynan Ecolodge, Dana Biosphere Reserve (1); Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea (2).
Curated activities and private experiences included: exclusive after-hours visit to The Jordan Museum; private mosaic-making workshop and cooking class in Madaba; guided exploration of Petra via the Backdoor or Main Trail (with archaeologist/local guide) plus Petra by Night; Wadi Rum 4x4 desert tour and private stargazing session; Bedouin breakfast and bread-making, private coffee-making ritual, and guided sunset hike at Feynan.
Signature Day with a choice of included experiences: Al-Salt cultural visit, Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Wadi Al Mujib adventure, or Desert Castles exploration.

What’s not included

Travel insurance is not included and should be arranged by the traveller.
International flights to and from Jordan are not included.
Visas and any required vaccinations are the traveller’s responsibility.
Any meals and drinks not specified in the inclusions.
Personal expenses and optional activities during free time — for example, the optional prebook walking tour in Amman and spa treatments at the Ishtar Spa.
Single room supplement, room upgrades, and additional nights can be arranged on request but are not included in the tour price.

Additional information

Under one of the region’s clearest skies, join an expert for a private astronomy session. Trace desert constellations, hear how Bedouin travellers once navigated by the stars, and observe celestial detail through high-powered optics.

With minimal light pollution, the Milky Way appears as a luminous river, and mythic sky-stories acquire fresh resonance against Wadi Rum’s vast silhouettes.

Follow a local naturalist on a guided sunset hike through desert foothills and acacia-studded wadis. As the sun sinks, watch the sandstone glow from apricot to rose, pausing to reflect on the silence and scale of the Dana Biosphere Reserve.

Learn about hardy flora, migratory birds, and conservation efforts that sustain this wilderness, returning with dusk’s colors still warming the horizon.

Visit the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth to see artifacts that narrate life around the Dead Sea—from ancient settlements to monastic sites—before pausing at the Wadi Mujib viewpoint to photograph Jordan’s dramatic escarpments.

Interpret displays that connect landscape and livelihood, then take in vast horizons where the land drops to the planet’s lowest elevation and the Dead Sea shimmers below.

Book a Dead Sea spa ritual that harnesses mineral-rich mud and salts to cleanse and rejuvenate. Therapists tailor scrubs, wraps, and massages to restore balance while you unwind in serene, water-view spaces.

Feel buoyant calm linger after treatments rooted in the world’s lowest natural spa destination, complementing your float on the hypersaline waters. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore the extraordinary ruins of Gerasa on a guided walk through colonnaded avenues and forums. Pass beneath Hadrian’s Arch, stride the Cardo Maximus, and stand in the sweeping Oval Plaza as your guide traces the life of a thriving Roman city on the empire’s eastern frontier.

Hear how temples, theatres, and triumphal monuments endured earthquakes and time, revealing urban design, engineering, and daily rituals preserved in golden limestone.

Visit Jordan’s pioneering winery for a private cellar tour and guided tasting before a vineyard dinner paired with estate wines. Learn about grape varieties adapted to highland sunshine and cool evenings as you sample regional wines alongside Jordanian dishes.

Discuss terroir, barrel aging, and the revival of winemaking traditions in the Levant, all framed by rolling hills and the convivial rhythm of a shared table.

Stand where tradition holds that Moses glimpsed the Promised Land and gaze across the Jordan Valley toward the Dead Sea and Judean hills. Step into the Memorial Church of Moses to admire restored Byzantine mosaics depicting pastoral scenes and intricate geometric art.

Your guide illuminates the site’s role in pilgrimage and interfaith heritage, as mountain air and broad horizons lend a contemplative quiet to this sacred ridge.

In Madaba, view the famed mosaic map at St George’s Church before sitting with artisans to try mosaic-making techniques passed down for generations. Continue to Hekayet Sitti, where you’ll cook Jordanian dishes alongside welcoming hosts and share a generous home-style lunch.

From ancient stone tesserae to saffron, sumac, and fresh herbs, this experience reveals a city where craftsmanship and family kitchens keep cultural memory vibrantly alive.

Rediscover Petra on a quieter route as you hike the Backdoor Trail with a specialist who brings the Nabataean city’s tombs and temples into focus. Traverse high paths and stairways, encountering rock-cut facades before the Treasury reveals its rose-red grandeur.

Learn how water channels, hidden cisterns, and cliff-side quarries shaped a desert capital of trade and ceremony, where sandstone layers glow from coral to copper in shifting light.

Enter a local home near Petra for a family-hosted dinner where recipes and hospitality are shared with pride. Taste spiced rice, grilled meats, and garden salads while your hosts recount everyday life and stories of Petra beyond the site’s facades.

This intimate table showcases Jordan’s warmth, where conversation flows as generously as the dishes, and traditions are passed on through flavor, laughter, and welcome.

Return after dark to follow a candlelit Siq toward Petra’s most iconic facade. Sit on carpets before the Treasury as flickering light and Bedouin music transform sandstone into a living stage beneath a starry sky.

Amid hush and hushed melodies, the monument’s scale and artistry feel newly intimate, offering a reflective counterpoint to daytime exploration.

Climb aboard for a guided 4×4 desert safari across rust-red dunes and valleys. Pause beneath sandstone arches and canyons, trace ancient petroglyphs, and photograph shifting shadows where monoliths rise from an ocean of sand.

Your guide interprets Bedouin lifeways and the landscape’s cinematic scale—echoed in explorers’ accounts—while the desert’s silence heightens each view and footprint.

Gather around the morning fire to bake warm flatbread and share eggs, olives, and sweet mint tea. Learn simple techniques for dough and ember cooking as the desert’s cool hush yields to the day’s first light.

Beyond flavors, this meal reveals communal customs—hosts serving first, guests honored—and the resourceful ingredients that sustain life across arid landscapes.

Experience a private coffee-making ritual where beans are roasted over coals, rhythmic grinding fills the room, and cardamom-laced coffee is poured from a gleaming dallah. Each gesture signals welcome, respect, and kinship.

Your host deciphers the ceremony’s meanings—when to sip, when to offer thanks—revealing how a humble cup binds guest and community in the language of hospitality.

Walk age-old paths once linked to resourceful communities as you explore desert trails and bake arbood bread on embers. Share tea brewed over the fire and conversations about seasonal rhythms that shape life here.

Your guide highlights traces of historic industry and pastoral movement, revealing how ingenuity, water wisdom, and patience mark survival in Jordan’s high desert.

Join a local shepherd to follow a small herd across low hills and sandy flats, reading wind, tracks, and grazing as you move. Pause to make bread and tea over a fire, sharing insights into routes, forage, and family traditions.

This grounded encounter reveals time-tested practices and quiet resilience, where livestock, land, and people move in careful balance.

Stroll the Harmony Trail through UNESCO-listed Al-Salt, where honey-colored stone houses, churches, and mosques cluster along Ottoman-era lanes. Meet artisans and community hosts before a home-hosted lunch celebrating open-door hospitality.

Learn how Al-Salt’s civic culture fostered coexistence and trade, reading elegant facades and shaded stairways as chapters in the city’s social history.

Visit Bethany Beyond the Jordan, the historic baptismal landscape of the River Jordan. Walk wooden paths to ancient pools and chapels, pausing for quiet reflection along reed-lined banks where pilgrims have gathered for centuries.

Your guide traces archaeology and scripture at this UNESCO World Heritage Site, grounding a place of devotion within the region’s riverine ecology and cross-border history.

Enter a sandstone gorge to hike the Wadi Mujib Siq, wading clear pools and scrambling past waterfalls with safety gear and expert guidance. Cool rock walls and echoing water create a desert oasis of movement and sound.

Discover how the reserve shelters flora and birdlife while seasonal water levels shape access and pace, making each passage a fresh encounter with nature.

Explore the Desert Castles, including fresco-lined Qasr Amra (UNESCO), the enigmatic Qasr Kharana, and basalt-built Azraq Castle. Trace princely lodges, waystations, and agricultural estates set along once-vital caravan corridors.

Admire early Islamic art, bathhouse engineering, and desert architecture that reveal a sophisticated courtly life adapted to arid horizons and mobile rule.

Gather for a private farewell dinner at Rehan Restaurant, where a refined Lebanese-inspired menu is paired with warm service and Dead Sea calm. Dishes arrive in thoughtful sequence, celebrating craft, produce, and tradition.

In interiors subtly echoing ancient Near Eastern motifs, conversation turns to highlights and horizons, closing your journey with a final expression of elevated hospitality.

Join a guided street-art walk linking Rainbow Street with Jabal al-Weibdeh, reading the city through color, typography, and murals that address identity, language, and everyday life. Pause at viewpoints and creative cafés along the way.

This curated urban stroll reveals a contemporary counterpoint to Amman’s antiquities, spotlighting local collectives and the social stories painted onto limestone walls. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Begin in Amman with a refined welcome where you’ll meet your Signature Guide before an exclusive after-hours visit to The Jordan Museum. Wander serene galleries as a specialist host interprets highlights from prehistory to the Nabataeans, pausing at the celebrated display of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Absorb the quiet atmosphere of a museum normally alive with daytime bustle, gaining context for Jordan’s layered past—from desert trade routes to modern nationhood—within a thoughtfully curated national collection.

Savour Amman’s culinary spirit in a historic townhouse as you enjoy a chef-presented tasting journey of Jordanian classics. In a private setting on Rainbow Street, courses of seasonal mezze, slow-cooked meats, and aromatic rice arrive with stories of origin and technique.

Appreciate the balance of herbs, citrus, and spice that defines Levantine cuisine, while warm service and traditional tableware deepen a sense of place and Jordanian hospitality.

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