Tour Details
- Starts in: Amman / Ends in: Amman
- Departs: 22 December 2010
- No local payment required
- Breakfast:7, Lunch: 0, Dinner: 2
- Hotel Rating: 3 star
- Tour Guide: Yes
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Xmas in Petra - 8 Days
Packing in Roman ruins, Crusader castles and views of the Promised Land. Go for a dip in the Dead Sea, camp out in Wadi Rum and enjoy a tasty Christmas dinner in the legendary Rose City of Petra. Guaranteed to be a Christmas cracker!
Day 1: Amman
22nd December. Welcome to Jordan and the start of your Christmas holiday! Arrive Amman, included transfer to hotel and overnight.
Overnight - Amman
Day 2: Jerash & Umm Qais
Amman - Jerash - Umm Qais - Amman. Driving north, we visit Jerash, one of best-preserved cities of the Decapolis, a confederation of 10 Roman cities dating from the 1st century! We’ll explore a significant number of preserved ruins including the classic Roman colonnaded street, amphitheatre, nymphaeum and forum before continuing to Umm Qais (Gadara), a dramatic black-basalt Roman city of the Decapolis with great views over the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights. Overnight - Amman (B)
Xmas in Petra - 8 Days Go Guide : :Check out the go guide for details of the tour, info on visas, climate, money, what to bring and more!
Day 3: Dead Sea
Amman - Dead Sea - Petra. Morning city tour of the Archaeological Museum, citadel and souq with free time to explore before descending from the heights of Amman to the Dead Sea. Test our powers of buoyancy in the mineral-rich waters! This afternoon we stop off at Shobak or Karak crusader castle en route to Petra. Overnight - Petra (B)
Day 4: Xmas in the Rose City
Merry Christmas Jordan! Today we visit Petra. Accessing the hidden archaeological treasures of the Rose City on a walk through a narrow, deep siq, where the rocks finally give way to reveal the famous facade of Al-Khazneh (the Treasury), we continue our exploration. Dozens of tombs, temples, an impressive amphitheatre and a Roman colonnaded street await our discovery. Later, an Anglo-Jordanian Christmas feast at the Petra Kitchen.
Overnight - Petra (B, D)
Day 5: Wadi Rum
Petra - Wadi Rum. This morning you have the opportunity to return to the Rose City before our afternoon drive to Wadi Rum. Late this afternoon, we enjoy a 4x4 safari across the stunning desertscape. Tonight tuck into dinner, Jordanian-style. Overnight - Wadi Rum (B, D)
Days 6 - 7: Mt Nebo & Mosaics
Wadi Rum - Madaba. This morning we visit Umm ar-Rasas, a haunted deserted city on the ancient caravan routes. The village is the site of the now ruinous Roman garrison town inhabited during the Byzantine and Umayyad periods. The mosaic floor of the Church of St Stephen dates to 785, over 150 years after Muslim rule was established in Jordan. We continue to Mt Nebo, to take in views across the Promised Land and continue to the Muslim-Christian market town of Madaba.
Famed for it’s Byzantine mosaics, including a biblically important map of the Holy Land made in the 6th century out of two million stone pieces and now housed in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George, Madaba, its mosaics and quaint village shops are all there to explore. Overnight - Madaba (B:2)
Famed for it’s Byzantine mosaics, including a biblically important map of the Holy Land made in the 6th century out of two million stone pieces and now housed in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George, Madaba, its mosaics and quaint village shops are all there to explore. Overnight - Madaba (B:2)
Day 8: Amman
Madaba - Amman Airport. Hotel check-out and included onward transfer to airport.
(B)
