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Venture Jordan 8 Days / 7 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: MADABA – MT. NEBO – KERAK – PETRA

Alter breakfast, visit Madaba along the 5,000-year-old King's Highway is one of the most memorable journeys in the Holy Land, passing through a string of ancient sites. The first city you come upon is 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

Then visit Kerak Crusader Castle legend and lore, canyon l,000 meters deep, guaranteed to set the mood for your visit. The fort itself is a dark maze of stone-vaulted halls and endless passageways. The castle in itself is more imposing than beautiful, though it is all the more impressive as an example of the Crusaders' architectural military genius

Overnight at Hotel

 D3: PETRA – WADI RUM

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 kilometer 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. A modest shrine commemorating the death of Aaron, brother of Moses, was built in the 13th century by the Mamluke Sultan, high a top mount Aaron in the Sharah range.

Then visit Wadi Rum "Vast, echoing and God-like" - these are the words T. E. Lawrence used in describing Wadi Rum. Beauty can only be described as breathtaking. the area is spotted with fascinating sandstone Mountains decorated with an array of colors, explored on 4x4 vehicle tours with Bedouin driver that take you deep into the heart of the desert. The magnificent colors of the mountains spill into the sandstone dunes scattered all over the reserve.

Overnight at Jabal Rum Camp

 D4: WADI RUM – AQABA

After Breakfast, drive to 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 Its crystal clear waters, abundant marine life, and pleasant climate make it an ideal location for scuba diving, snorkelling, and other water sports.

Overnight at Hotel

 D5: AQABA – DEAD SEA

After Breakfast free time in Aqaba city, check out from Hotel and drive to Dead Sea through Wadi Araba along Jordan Valley road line "the lowest point on earth," lying some 400 meters below sea level. In addition to the historical significance of the "Salt Sea," as it was referred to in the Bible, the Dead Sea important and rich source of minerals essential for agricultural and industrial development and for the treatment of various medical

Overnight at Hotel

 D6: DEAD SEA – JERASH – AMMAN

After breakfast, free day for leisure floating in Dead Sea without even trying, this makes swimming here a truly unique experience not to be missed: here is the only place in the world where you can recline on the water to read a newspaper Scientifically speaking, its water contains more than 35 different types of minerals that are essential for the health and care of the body skin including Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, Bromine, Sulfur, and Iodine. They are well known for relieving pains and sufferings caused by arthritis, rheumatism, psoriasis, eczema, headache, and foot-ache, while nourishing and softening the skin.

Then visit ancient city of Jarash is remarkable for its long chain of human occupation. Here at a 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. Drive to Amman

Overnight at Hotel

 D7: CITY TOUR – DESERT CASTLES - AMMAN

After breakfast, visit Amman, known in history as Rabbath-Ammon and in Graeco-Roman times as Philadelphia High above the city, at the ancient Citadel, study the traces of Amman's many lives: the regal columns of a Roman temple in silhouette against the sky, the elegant capitals of a Byzantine church, endlessly inventive carvings in the Umayyad Palace, fascinating displays in the Archaeological Museum... and digs and ruins everywhere you step. At the foot of the Citadel, take a seat in the Roman Theatre, a deep-sided bowl carved into the hill and still used for cultural events.

Then visit the wonders of nature are not enough, Jordan's deserts are dotted with ancient castles, farming estates, forts, hunting lodges and caravanserai. Widely varied in function, architectural style and creative embellishment most was the domain of Umayyad caliphs and princes in the first half of the 8th century. Qusayr 'Amra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its interior walls and ceilings are covered with lively frescoes from Umayyad times, and surprise the visitor with figurative images of people and animals. The black basalt fort at Azraq, in continuous use since Roman times, was the headquarters of Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt. Back to Amman

Overnight at Hotel

 D8: DEPARTURE JORDAN

Breakfast and check out from Hotel, Free time until flight time – Transfer from Hotel to Airport

 END OF PROGRAM AND SERVICES
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