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| Tur | BEST OF JORDAN |
| Gün Sayısı | 7 Gece 8 Gün |
| Destinasyon | Amman – Dead Sea – Madaba – Mount Nebo – Petra – Wadi Rum – Aqaba |
Day 1: QAIA Airport – Amman Hotel
Meet & assist: Arrive to Queen Alia International Airport.
The Jordanian visa can be obtained upon arrival at the airport therefore head to the immigration and visa area where you can complete your immigrations procedures; the visa cost is JOD 20 per person (around USD. 30.00) which must be paid with our Jordanian local currency as a result you need to exchange money before the immigration area.
After the immigration area, head to the ground floor to pick your luggage and out of the immigration and visa area to the arrival hall where you will be met by our airport representative who will waiting for you with a sign with your name on it.
Transfer & check-in: Transfer in a modern air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel in Amman. Pre-check in will be arranged, and you will go directly to your room, and luggage will follow you immediately.
Day 2:Amman City Tour – Madrasti – Amman Hotel
B – L
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel in Amman.
Depart hotel for a full day city tour of Amman: meet your professional guide and start the day by visiting the Citadel, the Archaeological Museum, the Roman Theatre, the Folklore Museum, walk down town through the bazaars and the Gold market.
Then drive to the oldest part of Amman located at the 1st circle called “Jabal Amman”.
Lunch: Experience our traditional Falafel Sandwich from the best Falafel place in Jordan, it is a simple meal but for sure it will be an experience to remember, as this place is very well known within the Jordanians. You can eat the sandwich while walking in the old parts of Amman, or at your vehicle.
After lunch visit the Nature Centre of the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, and walk through the oldest part of Amman located in “Jabal Amman” the 1st circle, where most of the houses of the well-known families of Amman was living or still living till today. Most of the houses are built in the 1920’s or 1930’s. One of these houses is where our late King Hussein was born.
Visit Jordan River Design Shop for handicraft during the walking tour.
Then proceed to Darat Al Funun for a visit:
Darat al Funun is a home for the Arts and the artists of Jordan and the Arab World. Overlooking the heart of Amman, Darat al Funun is housed in three historical residences built in the 1920’s alongside the remains of a 6th century Byzantine church. It speaks of an enduring ancient legacy of urbanism, architecture and cultural identity that is now being enriched by a modern flowering of the visual arts.
The traditional Amman residences which now house Darat al Funun were built in the 1920’s at a time of urban expansion initiated by the leading families in Jordan. Located on a quiet hilltop, they overlooked the small Circassian village that occupied Amman’s central valley. Today, they are in one of the oldest residential districts of the city, within easy reach of the downtown area. The site consists of three buildings, and the remains of a 6th century Byzantine church.
Transfer to Balquees School (Madrasati Incentive) for a visit
Madrasati:
The Madrasati or “My School” initiative is an innovative grassroots project to rehabilitate schools and improve their learning environment. It was started by Queen Rania and supports the physical renovation of public schools in Jordan, including painting, beautification and minor construction work. It also works with teachers, parents and students to start Parent Teacher Associations, training for teachers, and student awareness about many subjects, including health issues. The project to date has partnered with twelve other NGOs to enhance the education work done so far for the poorest communities. The project includes work with the Jordan Education Initiative to identify the training and equipment needs of the Jordan River Foundation on their Safe Schools Initiative.
For more information: http://www.madrasati.jo/site.html
Recommended optional experience in Amman:
Saint George Jordanian wine (Min: 8 People)
Learn about one of Jordan’s local wines, St. George wine and Meet the wine maker Omar Zumot himself and get an insight into his passion for fine wine. Learn how it all began for wine making in Jordan. Then enjoy an evening of wine tasting of the Saint George wines accompanied either by a set menu dinner or a variety of cheeses, cold cuts and baguettes.
Saint George wines are considered by many to be the best local wines in Jordan and the makers are considered pioneers in wine making in Jordan.
For more information: http://www.zumot-wines.com/
Then, back to Amman Hotel for an overnight.
Day 3:Amman – Desert Castle – Dead Sea
B
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel in Amman.
Depart hotel, and drive to Visit the ancient Desert Castle of Jordan
Desert Castles
Today explore the desert castles as you head east into Jordan’s main desert. Stop at Qasr Kharraneh, Qusayr Amra and Qasr Azraq. Jordan’s desert castles are a beautiful examples of both early Islamic art and architecture, stand testament to a fascinating era in the country’s rich history. Their fine mosaics, frescoes, stone and stucco carvings and illustrations, inspired by the best in Persian and Graeco – Roman traditions, tell countless stories of the life as it was during the fifth to the eighth centuries. The communities in this part of Jordan include Chechens and Druze
Kharaneh castle:
Qasr el-Kharaneh,which was probably rebuilt by the Umayyad in (AD 711) over a Roman or Byzantine site. This mighty structure, with its imposing walls and narrow slits, looks like a military fortress; experts believe that it was probably used as a caravansary, being set on the path of several ancient trade routes.
Amra castle:
Qasr Amra is the most charming of all the Umayyad buildings in Jordan. It was built as a bath-house (a place of leisure) by the Umayyad Caliph el-Walid I around (AD 7 11). The real outstanding attraction of Qasr Amra is the frescoes adorning its interior walls and ceilings. They are of exceptional interest for what they portray of human life: men hunting, athletes competing, woman bathing and dancers performing.
Azraq castle:
Qala’at al-Azraq is a large castle built out of black basalt, and in its present form dates to the beginning of the 13th century. The Umayyad maintained it as a military base. During the WW1, Sheriff Hussein and TE Lawrence made it their desert headquarters in the winter of 1917, during the Arab Revolt against Turks.
Transfer back to Amman for your lunch with local family
Optional Lunch experience in Amman:
Lunch with local family in Amman: Enjoy a traditional lunch with a family from one of these communities to learn more about their unique culture and life in Jordan.
After the Visit, Board your vehicle and drive to the Dead Sea.
Day 4: Dead Sea – Madaba – Mount Nebo – Petra
B – L
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel at the Dead Sea.
Checkout: checkout from your hotel and luggage will be stored at your vehicle.
Depart hotel, board your vehicle and drive to Madaba for a visit (around 45 Drive drive).
Madaba:
Madaba known as the ‘City of Mosaics’ for its wealth of beautiful Byzantine mosaics is one of the most memorable places in the holy land; it is located south of Amman. Dubbed “the city of mosaics”, Madaba offers many sites to explore. Amongst them the chief attraction – in the contemporary Greek Orthodox church of St. George – is a wonderfully vivid, 6th century Byzantine mosaic map showing Jerusalem and other holy sites. With two million pieces of colored stone, and a full 25×25 meters in its original state – most of which can still be seen today – the map depicts hills and valleys, villages and towns, as far away as the Nile Delta. This masterpiece is unrivalled in Jordan, but there are literally dozens of other mosaics from the 5th through the 7th centuries scattered throughout Madaba’s churches and homes.
Board your vehicle and Drive for Lunch at Haret Jdoudna Restaurant
Lunch: Haret Jdoudna
Optional tour in Madaba:
Bani Hamida
Enjoy a visit the mountain villages overlooking the Dead Sea. Save the Children organization launched the Bani Hamida women’s weaving project in 1987, bringing prosperity to an otherwise impoverished region. The Bani Hamida Women’s Weaving Project revived and marketed traditional weaving practices, helping to maintain the social fabric of the area and improve the living standards and hopes of women and their children. Today, more than one thousand women in 13 villages are weaving designer carpets that are exhibited and sold in Jordan, Europe and the United States. This internationally renowned project was spun off as an integral part of the Jordan River Foundation, one of Jordan’s largest and most visible non-government organizations
After Lunch, Transfer to Mount Nebo for a Visit (around 15 minutes’ Drive from Madaba)
Arrive to Mount Nebo and visit: Mount Nebo is the mountain where Moses was allowed to see the Holy Land… and not allowed to enter it. Nowadays the mountain is a memorial site. Here is the “Church of Moses”, built by the first Christians. Ever since the first days of Christianity this mountain has been a holy place and a destination for pilgrimage. Like Moses, you can have a great view over Jordan, the Dead Sea and Israel. When the weather is clear, you should even be able to see Jerusalem, which is about 60 kilometres away.
Transfer to Petra (3 Hours’ drive from Mt. Nebo).
Arrive to Petra and check in at Moevenpick Petra Resort
Optional dinner experience in Petra:
Experience the Petra Kitchen with dinner:
The Petra Kitchen is a delightful way to round up your Jordan travel experiences. Like any home kitchen, The Petra Kitchen is a relaxed, informal atmosphere where you’ll gather to prepare an evening meal, working alongside local women under the supervision of an experienced chef
Petra Kitchen offers an evening of learning, fun and a very special dining experience, with each dish gaining the special flavor of a reward well-earned. Great care has been taken to make
Each evening meal includes soup, cold and hot mezza, salads and a main course—all typical Jordanian dishes. You will get an inside glimpse of the secrets behind the famous regional cuisine of the Levant.
Petra Kitchen a truly Jordanian experience—right down to the furnishings, all crafted in Jordan, the tableware, all produced by the Iraq al Amir Women’s Co-operative, and the aprons and table linen, all hand-embroidered by the Jordan River Foundation.
Back to your vehicle and proceed to your hotel for an overnight stay.
Day 5: Petra Full Day
B – L
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel in Petra
Full day visit Petra
Tour the ancient rose-red city of Petra, which was built by the Nabataeans more than 2000 years ago. Learn about this fascinating culture and the amazing relics they left behind. In this era Petra was a fortress, carved out of craggy rocks in an area, which was virtually inaccessible. In the first and second century, after the Romans took over, the city reached the peak of its fame.
Start the visit with an optional horse ride from the main gate of Petra to the entrance of the old city (around 800 meters ride)
Then walk on foot along the « Siq » to visit the rose-red city of Petra. Petra covers an area of about 100 square km, where over 800 monuments can be found. When shipping slowly displaced caravan routes, the city’s importance gradually dwindled; it fell into disuse and was lost to the world until 1812, when it was re-discovered by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burkhart. Nowadays Petra is Jordan’s number 1 tourist attraction, known as the “rose-red city half as old as time”. The Khazneh (the Treasury) stared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
After visiting Al-Khazneh, proceed to Ancient Monastery of Petra for a visit .
The Monastery is similar to design to the Treasury, but it is much larger (50 m high x 45m wide) and much less decorated. The facade is flat on the lower level and deeply carved on the upper level, with engaged columns and two half-pediments flanking a central urn (10m high).
The flat plaza in front was carved out of the rock, perhaps to accommodate crowds at religious ceremonies. It was originally surrounded by a colonnade. The interior consists of a single room with double staircases leading up to a niche (the same layout as in the Qasr al-Bint and the Temple of the Winged Lions)
On the left side of the facade, there is a very steep path that tourists are generally not permitted to climb, both for the safety of the monument and the visitors. It leads up to the urn on top of the facade. Local kids like to show off by playing on the urn, some even climbing it all the way to the top.A cave located directly opposite the Monastery houses a small café offering refreshments and a shady place to sit and admire the monument. Other monuments in the area include a stone circle and a cave, and marvelous views can be had by a few minutes’ climb up the rocks behind the café.
Lunch: at Basin Restaurant, Petra
Transfer back to your Petra Hotel for an overnight
Day 6: Petra – Wadi Rum
B – L – D
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel in Petra.
Then, second visit of Petra.
Checkout: checkout from hotel and luggage will be stored at your vehicle.
Depart hotel, and board your vehicle. And drive to Wadi Rum (around 1½ hour drive).
Arrive to Wadi Rum and pick up your 4×4 cars with drivers and 3 hours’ drive inside the beautiful desert of Wadi Rum then 1 hour Camel Ride.
Wadi Rum
Otherwise known as Valley of the Moon, the landscape of Wadi Rum with its immensity, colour and awe-inspiring shapes creates an almost supernatural atmosphere.
The setting for the film Lawrence of Arabia and the actual location where T.E. Lawrence set his camp, whose book “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” was named after the seven natural columns varying in height located in route to Wadi Rum. Bedouin camps are evident in the Wadi, which is still home to a number of Bedouin families, who welcome visitors with the hospitality and generosity that Bedouins are so famous for.
Lunch: at rum gate restaurant
Camel ride:
A camel ride will last around one hour or so with the camel led by a small boy in A promenade around the Rest House in Wadi Rum where you can see the open valleys surrounded by spectacular sandstone mountains, and come to appreciate the silence that using camels as your mounts provides.
Riding camels is a very pleasant way to be in contact with Bedouin culture, by moving at a natural pace.
These trips have the advantage of fitting most of people, both family and sports-oriented. Moreover, camel riding, unlike horse riding, it doesn’t require any specific skills or experience.)
Did you know!
Fifty and even thirty years ago, literally thousands of camels could be seen in the desert areas of Jordan, where today you will only find a few dozen. The coming of the jeep, the arrival of good roads (the road to Petra only exists since the 1960’s) and especially the lack of rain in the last ten or fifteen years have all contributed to their virtual disappearance.
An ordinary riding camel will normally proceed at about 5/6 kms/hour, its fastest racing speed being perhaps 20kms/hour, but a racing camel can reach 40km/hour, sometimes more. Their endurance is astonishing: although a good camel can cover 50 or 60 kms a day for several successive days, over 100kms in 12 hours is not extraordinary. A very good camel can cover 120 or 130kms in 12 hours. Some specially bred camels have been known to continue at racing speed for up to 18 hours. If you calculate the distance this covered, you can see just how valuable they were to the Bedouin and why they earned their name.
Transfer back to the Camp for dinner
Dinner: Private Bedouin dinner at Wadi Rum Camp
Day 7: Wadi Rum – Aqaba
B – L
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your camp in the Wadi Rum.
After breakfast, enjoy a camel ride to Wadi Rum Visitor Centre
Checkout: checkout from you camp and luggage will be stored at your vehicle.
Transfer to Aqaba (around 1½ hour drive).
Aqaba:
Greatly prized as Jordan’s window to the sea, Aqaba brings a refreshing release from the rose-colored desert to the north. Its sandy beaches and coral reefs are the most pristine on the Red sea, and Jordanians continuously work hard to preserve it as such. It was built over the remains of several very ancient sites. After the discovery of a Calcholitic site (Tell Maquss), there have been extensive excavations on the sea front, to unearth the remains of Ayla, probably the biblical Salomon port. After Roman and Umayyad conquer, the Ottoman name of Aqaba appears starting from the XVI Century. Apart from its long history, Aqaba is also renowned for its crystal clear, all year around warm waters. Conditions are ideal for underwater photography, and a lavish array of exotic fish and plant life makes for excellent snorkeling and diving. Over 140 species of coral have been identified in Aqaba’s waters
Lunch: at Ali Baba Restaurant
Optional Dinner experience in Aqaba:
At the royal yacht club
Board your vehicle and transfer back to your hotel for an overnight
Day 8: Aqaba – QAIA airport
B
Breakfast: buffet breakfast at your hotel in Aqaba
Checkout: After breakfast check out from hotel and luggage will be stored at your vehicle.
Transfer to Queen Alia International Airport for your departure flight. The drive takes around 4 Hours’ drive from Aqaba.
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