Day 1: Arrival (Welcome to Jordan)

Arrival to Amman, obtaining the visa, Meet your driver at the airport (Queen Alia International Airport) and transfer to the hotel. overnight at hotel.

Day 2: Amman – Desert Castles – Amman City Tour

Breakfast at the hotel then transfer to visit the Desert Castles (Qasr Amra, Qasr Al Kharana, and Qasr Al Azraq) the castles were built between the 7^th and the 8^th century under the caliphs of the Umayyad who made Damascus their new capital in 661. The majority of the castles lie on the ancient trade route towards Medina and Kufa. Jordan’s desert castles, beautiful examples of both early Islamic art and architecture. Their fine mosaic and frescoes, stone and stucco carvings inspired

by the best Persian and Greco – Roman traditions. Called castles because of their imposing statue, the desert   complexes actually served various purposes as caravan stations, agriculture and trade centers, resort pavilions and outposts that helped distant rulers forge ties with local Bedouins. Back to Amman for a City Tour. Tour through Amman, the ancient and modern capital of Jordan, originally built on seven hills and from the top of the citadel, one of the highest hills; you can have a splendid view of the old city. Visit the Citadel, Roman Theater, Archeological, Folklore Museums, and King Abdullah Mosque. Back to the hotel for overnight.

Day 3: Amman – Pella – Umm Qais – Ajlun – Amman

After breakfast, drive to visit Pella, it was the site of one of Christianity’s earliest churches and it was a refuge for Jerusalem Christians in the 1st century AD.

Then road to Umm Qais. Site of the famous miracle of the Gadareane swine, Gadara was renowned in its time as a cultural center. It was the home of several classical poets and philosophers, including Theodoros, founder of a rhetorical school in Rome, Gadara hanging on a splendid hilltop overlooking the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Galilee, which is known today as Umm Qais, and has an impressive colonnaded street, a vaulted terrace, and the ruins of two theatres.

Continue to Ajlun; proceed through pine forests and olive groves to visit the mighty Castle of Ajlun.  The Castle is the major ancient monument within the Ajlun region. He was built by one of Saladin’s generals in 1184 AD to control the local iron mines of Ajlun and to counter the progress of the Crusaders by dominating the tree main routes leading to the Jordan Valley and protecting the communication routes between Jordan and Syria.  Back to Amman hotel for overnight.

Day 4: Amman – Jerash – Dead Sea – Madaba

Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Jerash, a tour through the colonnaded street, amphitheater, Churches, temples and the vast Roman Forum. The best-preserved Roman City Gerasa, which is called Jerash today, and known also as the city of 1.000 pillars.

Continue to the lowest spot-on earth, 1306 feet below sea level - the Dead Sea. Free time for leisure and swimming. Enjoy the bizarre but delightful experience of floating" on the surface of buoyant waters, nine times saltier than regular sea water. The therapeutic water of the Dead Sea, combined with the valley’s fertile land and warm climate, have attracted people to live, hunt and farm in the area since the Stone Age. Drive to Madaba for overnight.

Day 5: Madaba – Mt. Nebo – King’s highway – Kerak – Petra

Breakfast at the hotel. Visit Madaba (City of Mosaics), where you will see the unique map of the Holy Land in St. George Church 6th C. AD. Then continue to visit the Sanctuary at Mount Nebo the (Memorial burial place of Prophet Moses). Mont Nebo is the place where Moses viewed the holy land of Canaan.

Continue to Kerak via Wadi Mujib and Kings’ Highway is the world’s oldest continuously used communication route. Whether you approach Kerak from the ancient Kings’ Highway to the east or from the Dead Sea to the west, the striking silhouette of this fortified town and castle will instantly make you understand why the fates of kings and nations were decided here. Continue to Petra for overnight.

Day 6: Petra visit (with local guide)

Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the unique "Rose-Red" city of Petra, built by the Arab Nabatean’s who hewed their monumental tombs, palaces, temples and treasury from the desert rock’s sandstone in its’ natural hues of rose and gold. You will begin the trip on horseback for 700m till the entrance of the impressive narrow gorge (Siq), leads marvelously to the magical moment, when you can glimpse the Treasury, continue to the street of facades, the Royal Tombs, the Cardo, Temples, Churches, Museums…

Day 7: Petra – Little Petra – Wadi Rum

Breakfast at the hotel.  Drive to visit the Little Petra (Beidah) – only in 10km distance from Petra. Continue south to the largest and most magnificent of Jordan's desert of Wadi Rum, (Valley of the moon), The largest and most magnificent of Jordan’s desert landscapes. Tour inside the desert with 4x4 Jeep, for 2 hours, “Vast, Echoing and God like “- there are the words of T.E. Lawrence used in describing Wadi Rum. Local Dinner and overnight in your camp of Wadi Rum.

Day 8: Wadi rum - Aqaba (Free Time) - Amman

Breakfast at the camp. Transfer to Aqaba. There is snorkeling, fishing and sailing, or glass-bottomed boats for those who prefer to keep marine life at arm’s length. There is a Mameluk Fort (now known as Aqaba Fort) at the end of the corniche and, on an island in the middle of the Gul. Continue to Amman via Wadi Araba. Local dinner at typical restaurant in Amman & overnight at the hotel.

Day 9: Departure

After breakfast. Transfer to QAIA (Queen Alia International Airport) for final departure.