Jordan - Tour Bolt-ons
Extend and enhance your Arabian adventure with a 5 star respite at the Dead Sea, where you can float like a boat in the salt-laden sea and pamper yourself at the spa. Discover the delights of Syria's Damascus, the oldest continually inhabited city on Earth. Explore the spiritual sites of Jerusalem & the Holy Lands. Or cook up a storm in the Petra Kitchen.
Petra Kitchen
Ever wanted to know how to make real, authentic Middle Eastern hoummus? Based just up the road from the entrance to the Rose City, Petra Kitchen - a locally managed business staffed by local Jordanian people, offers a hands-on approach to the preparation of a Middle Eastern repast. At Petra Kitchen, enjoy a cooking session which will result in the mysteries of dishes such as baba ghanoush, fattoush, sambousek b’jibn (cheese triangles) and proper hoummus-from-scratch dispelled before your very eyes and with your very involvement. Then enjoy the fruits of your labours - a faraway feast, fit for a king, sultan or khedive! Something good’s cooking at the Petra Kitchen!
Damascus
Reputedly the oldest inhabited city in the world, Damascus, the capital of Syria is a charismatic and bustling place studded with rich examples of Islamic and Ottoman architecture. Off Straight Street, the main thoroughfare of Damascus since Graeco-Roman times, the Old City is further dissected by dozens of interesting streets housing mosques; the city’s labyrinthine souk just south of the citadel where anything from fresh juice and hot corn to carved furniture, swords and shisha smoking pipes can be bought, elegant bathhouses, grand residences of former pashas and the amazing Azem Palace. Included is a visit to a traditional hamam. We also leave a day free for you to further explore the city or opt to head to your choice of Krac des Chevaliers - an ancient crusader castle and Ma’alula, an old Christian village where locals still speak Aramaic, the language of Christ OR to the Roman oasis town of Palmyra.
Jerusalem & Beyond
Take an inspirational journey to the revered Holy Land. Serving as a pillar to the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths, we tour Jerusalem - the heart of the Promised Land and beyond, visiting some of world's most sacred and historical sites. This bolt-on fits perfectly with our Totally Jordan and Deserts Ruins and Reefs group tours.
Dead Sea
Sink or swim? There’s no chance of either occurring at the Dead Sea. The mineral-rich Dead Sea offers bathers ultimate buoyancy to the point where you’ll feel like a cork bobbing about! Our Dead Sea escape bolt-on allows you the chance to completely spoil yourself at the Movenpick Dead Sea Resort Hotel. Enjoy the resort’s fine facilities such as the freshwater swimming pools, tennis courts and world-class Zara Spa where you can opt to indulge in a catalogue of well-being treatments such as Dead Sea salt scrubs, Swedish massage, stone therapy, mud body wraps and more. Plus right outside is the Dead Sea, just the tonic for a healthy complexion and skin.
