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Delightful Jordan 5 days / 4 nights

13
Apr 2011

 D1: Arrival Queen Alia International Airport
Meet and assist at Airport, finish formalities (Entry Visa, Immigration counter, Luggage & Customs check point, transfer to your hotel for overnight
 D2: JERASH – UM QAIS – AMMAN

After breakfast, Visit the ancient city of Jarash is remarkable for its long chain of human occupation. Well-watered site in the hills of Gilead, remains from Neolithic times have been found, as well as Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and others. Jarash's golden age, however, arrived with Roman rule. Today it is acknowledged as one of the best-preserved province cities of the Roman Empire. Jarash was a member of the Decapolis, a dynamic commercial league of ten Graeco-Roman cities.

Then drive to the famous miracle of the Gadarene swine, Gadara was renowned in its time as a cultural centre. It was the home of several classical poets and philosophers, including Theodorus, founder of a rhetorical school in Rome; one poet called the city "a new Athens". Perched on a splendid hilltop overlooking the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Galilee, Umm Qays boasts an impressive colonnaded terrace and the ruins of two theatres. You can take in the sights and then dine on the terrace of a fine restaurant with a breathtaking view of three countries. Drive back to Amman

Overnight at Hotel

 D3: DEAD SEA – MADABA – MT. NEBO – KERAK – PETRA

Alter Breakfast, Visit the Dead Sea of 400 meters below sea level, which is the lowest point on the surface of the earth and some of the world's oldest civilizations sprang from this soil. The "Salt Sea," as it was referred to in the Bible, rich source of minerals essential for agricultural and industrial development, as well as for the treatment of various medical conditions such as psoriasis.

Then visit Madaba "the City of Mosaics". Madaba's 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 coloured stone and a full 25 x 5 metres 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. Then visit Mt. Nebo the memorial of Prophet Moses, continue to Kerak massive Crusader fortress built in 1136 and retaken by the Arab forces of Saladin in 1189.

Overnight at Hotel

 D4: PETRA – WADI RUM – AMMAN

After breakfast, visit ancient city of Petra the legacy of the Nabataens, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago. The site is accessed by walking through a kilo meter long chasm (siq), the walls of which soar 200 meters upwards, the Treasury, appears dramatically at the end of the (siq). Various walks and climbs reveal literally hundreds of buildings, tombs, baths, funerary halls, temples, arched gateways, colonnaded streets and haunting rock drawings - as well as a 3000 seat open air amphitheatre circa, a gigantic first century Monastery.

Then drive to Landscape Wadi Rum beauty can only be described as breathtaking, area is spotted with fascinating sandstone Mountains decorated with an array of colors explored on 4x4 vehicle tours that take you deep into the heart of the desert. Then drive back to Amman

Overnight at Hotel

 D5: DEPARTURE JORDAN
Breakfast and check out from Hotel, Free time until flight time – Transfer from Hotel to Airport
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