Day by day tour itinerary

Day 1:  Arrival

Meets and assist at Queen Alia International Airport, visa formalities, transfer to Amman, check in at mid-range budget hotel, dinner and overnight.

Hotel: Darotel hotel

Meals: Dinner

Day 2: Amman - Umm Qais - Jerash - Ajlun – Amman

After breakfast, transfer to Umm Qais , which was built mainly out of black basalt. Here you can enjoy the impressive view over Lake Tiberius and the Golan Heights. And then drive down to Rabad Castle (Ajlun castle) you will visit the Islamic military castle of Ajloun. The castle was used by the Islamic armies of Saladin to protect the region against the crusaders. And next destination will be Jerash You will visit Jerash, the Pompeii of the East. You will enter Jerash through the monumental South Gate and find yourself wandering around in a Roman city. You will walk in the Oval Plaza surrounded by colonnades, visit the Roman theatre and Byzantine churches with mosaic-covered floors. Enjoy a stroll along Jerash’ main road the Cardo and pass by the Nymphaeum. Jerash has been covered by sand for centuries, the main reason why it is still so well-preserved. You may experience the marvelous acoustics of the theatre, the stage of the Jerash music festival which takes place every year. And see for yourself how the Romans built the earthquake-proof columns of the colonnaded streets. Evening back to Amman, enjoy the night highlights of the capital of Jordan, dinner at your hotel or at nice restaurant, overnight.

Hotel: Darotel hotel

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 3: Amman – Salt

After breakfast in Amman drive to Salt second city to Jordan, which was the capital of Jordan before, visit the new project of Salt's woman of handcrafts, assist the woman with their new project, and visit the old museums and old houses in Salt, late evening drive back to Amman, dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Hotel: Darotel hotel

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 4: Amman – Madaba – Nebo – karak - Dana

After breakfast transfer to Madaba and visit the famous mosaic map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Your next stop will be Mount Nebo, where like Moses you will be able to overlook the Holy Land and the Dead Sea. If the sky is clear Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem will meet your eye. The journey will continue along the King’s Highway. You will visit the huge castle where Saladin and Richard Lionheart fought during the crusades.

Hotel: Hostel of Qadesia families association

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 5: Dana - Wadi Dana - Fainan

We will start from Dana Village, short visit to Dana Spring, and via old olive trees in Dana we cross down in Wadi Dana via made-trail by Desert Paramours Tours, and we hike down to the hole of Wadi Dana, there will have break after three hours of easy hike, under a tree 2000 Years old, and we will have cup of tea which made by the tour guide, after half of break will continue easy hike via Bedouin trail to Qussaib Spring, there you can wash, and then continue to more couple hours hiking near Atta’the Spring, there will have Lunch break and cup of Bedouin tea, and we will continue to the end of the great Valley of Dana Natural Reserve, ending at Edge, a beautiful hotel that made from mud, we will cross the beginning of Wadi Araba desert, there Bedouin family will be waiting to welcome you at their Bedouin tents, and will have Bedouin tradition dinner, and the tour guide will tell you the story of the Bedouin tribe over there, as well as more about the Bedouin history. Dinner and overnight at the Bedouin tent with that family.

Total Hike (7 Hours)

Accommodation: With Bedouin family

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 6: Fainan - Wadi Ghuwair - Wadi Araba - Wadi Namala - Little Petra

After breakfast, and say goodbye to the Bedouin family, we will hike down to copper mines in Wadi Fainan, the oldest and biggest copper mines in the world in ancient time, a short visit and then continue to Wadi Ghwair, the Jeeps will be waiting us there, and will drive by Jeep inside the canyon which has 20 – 30 Cm water high, deep in the canyon the Jeeps will stop there and then continue canoeing till the end of the canyon after two hours of canoeing there. Ride our jeeps crossing the desert of Wadi Araba and the amazing landscape of Wadi Namala, we arrive to Little Petra the stone age area, and the first sites of Petra, we camp at Bedouin tents we have summer night with Bedouin loud and dram, and dinner under candles light.

Accommodation: Bedouin tens or with Bedouin family at little village in Little Petra called Amarine village

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Day 7: Little Petra

Today visit Siq El-Barid, and Mu'aisara Sharqeiah – late afternoon we drive to our family in Wadi Mousa (Petra city) at home and we cook together with our mother oriental dinner, overnight at our home.

Meals: breakfast, dinner

Day 8: Petra

Full day sightseeing in Petra, visit main Siq, treasury, theatre, court, sacrifice high place, soldier tombs, Wadi Habis, great temple, evening walk back to hotel.

Hotel : Amra Palace hotel

Meals: Breakfast, dinner

Day 9: Petra

Today we will visit the new archeological project (Jordan university and a German association) for BN church in Petra, study the new founded ruines in Petra, and walk around new digging in Petra, evening we drive to Bedoul village, to meet with general manager of Bedouin school and to meet the children, tonight we will stay with Bedouin family at Bedoul village at home.

Accommodation: Bedoul family home

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 10: Petra - Wadi Rum

In the morning you will be transferred to Wadi Rum. You shall pass the famous seven pillars of wisdom, described by Lawrence of Arabia and explore Wadi Rum by jeep, escorted by a Bedouin guide. You shall see the house where Lawrence of Arabia lived, and the inscriptions made by the Thamudic and Nabatean people centuries ago. And you may even climb one of the natural rock bridges. We will check in at deluxe campsite, (all suppliers and equipment are available), dinner Bedouin BBQ, overnight at the campsite in the middle of Wadi Rum.

Accommodation: Campsite

Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 11:  Wadi Rum

In the morning we take short walk around Rum mountain, and Nukhaila Spring for about 3 hours, noon we come back to Rum village, we meet the first volunteer came to Wadi Rum Ms. Juli, if she is there, and we interduce to you the small school at the village, and we spend the day at the children school to teach them English, overnight at Bedouin tents.

Accommodation: Bedouin tents

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 12: Wadi Rum – Diseh - Aqaba

Free morning in Wadi Rum drive to Diseh desert, meets the Bedouin families, and escort you to the water new project founded under the land of desert, where they srarts growing water milon and potato for the Bedouin people, afternoon drive to Aqaba, free afternoon at red sea beach, check in at hotel, dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Al Cazar hotel

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 13:  Aqaba – Wadi Araba – Rahma village – Beer madhkour village – Dead Sea – Amman

Free morning at the beach of Red sea, drive to Amman via desert high way enrout stop at small Bedouin villages, and visit families, schools, projects for woman..etc, evening arrive Dead Sea the lowest point on the earth, float and use body mud, after sunset drive to Amman, check in at hotel, dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Darotel hotel

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 14: Departure

Depend of your flight schedule, city tour in Amman in the morning to visit Roman theatre, citadel, national museum old market, transfer to Airport, assist with departure

Accommodation: None

Meals: Breakfast

Package rates:

2 Pax: 1399 US $ per person

3 Pax: 1289 US $ per person

4 Pax: 1219 US $ per person

5 Pax: 1179 US $ per person

6 Pax: 1119 US $ per person

Single room supplement: 150 US $

Rates included:

Meets and assist at airport

All transfers by deluxe Jeep or Van from day 1 to day 14

Entrance fees to all sites as per itinerary

Meals as per itinerary

Hotels accommodation (3* in Petra, 3* in Amman)

Tour guides at the sites, and trekking days

English speaking driver

Jeep Safari in Wadi Rum

Horse ride in Petra

Mineral water during trekking

Sand bottle with guest name at the end of the tour or in Petra

Rates does not included:

Visa fee to Jordan (15 US $)

Tips and departure tax

Lunches

Travel insurance

Any other item not mentioned in our itinerary

You will need to bring with you:

White clothes

Good shoes

Good sandal

Sun lotion

Sun glass

Back bag

Flash light

Toilet paper

To visit Petra during daylight is an awe-inspiring experience, to experience it at night by the light of 1,800 candles is truly an out-of-this-world experience! Walk through the Siq to the Khazneh following a candle-lit path and enjoy the haunting music of the Bedouin at the Treasury. Tours start at 8.30pm and finish at 10.00pm. Tickets can be purchased from the Petra Site Office at the entrance to the site. Allow yourself plenty of time to walk through the Siq, you don't want to miss the show.
 

One of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation's most prominent income generation initiatives for empowering women that continued to progress/evolve for 14 years had been the National Handicraft Development Project. The Project was successful in preserving traditional handicrafts and creating income for women in remote and rural areas. Through the Jordan Design and Trade Center (JDTC), the program had established nine income-generating handicraft centers, provided product development, technical expertise, and linkages to local and international markets, thus creating over 2000 job opportunities for women. In summer 2004, JDTC’s showroom and its initiated handcraft projects were turned over to women-led cooperatives, while the Foundation’s Cooperatives Unit maintains indirect support to these enterprises.

Jordan Design and Trade Center

The Jordan Design and Trade Center (JDTC) was founded in 1990 with the aim of advancing the goals of the National Handicraft Development Project. Since its inception, JDTC has been instrumental in reviving the handicraft industry by promoting women’s handicraft production as a source of national income and establishing itself as a model for other local NGOs. The Center until 2004 operated various retail outlets in major tourist sites in Amman, Petra, Aqaba, Jerash, and Madaba. It supported production centers and cooperatives initiated by NHF and other handicraft workshops in Jordan and the region. The Center also provided technical assistance to improve quality and management skills. As a vital link between Jordan’s local handicraft industry and today’s sophisticated world markets, JDTC provided marketing support and product development and introduced internationally acclaimed contemporary designs. Fada Mijwel (Um Ali won the “Magnificent Carpet Award” at the Atlanta International and Rug Market in the United States.