Xmas in Petra - 8 days

Amman - Jerash - Umm Qais - Amman - breakfast. Striking north, we visit the Graeco-Roman city of Jerash. Built more 2,000 years ago, Jerash is widely regarded as the best-preserved city of the Decapolis, a confederation of 10 Roman cities dating from the 1st century! Exploring the site, we’ll take in the colonnaded street, amphitheatre, nymphaeum, forum and more before continuing to Umm Qais (Gadara), a dramatic black-basalt Roman city of the Decapolis with panoramic views over the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights. Dinner and Overnight - Amman.

Amman - Dead Sea - Petra - breakfast. This morning we tour the citadel, Archaeological Museum and enjoy free time in the local souq before descending from the elevation of Amman to the Dead Sea for a chance to test our powers of buoyancy in the mineral-rich waters. This afternoon we stop off at Karak crusader castle en route to Wadi Musa (Petra). Dinner and Overnight - Petra/Wadi Musa.

Wadi Musa (Petra) - breakfast. 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 feast at the Petra Kitchen. Xmas dinner and overnight - Petra.

Petra - Wadi Rum - breakfast. 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 4 x 4 safari across the stunning desertscape. Tonight tuck into dinner, Jordanian-style. Dinner and overnight - Wadi Rum.

Wadi Rum - Madaba - breakfast. On the morning of 27 December, a short drive leads us to the Red Sea resort town of Aqaba. Short city tour and free time to shop the markets we continue via Wadi Araba to Lot’s cave and Mt Nebo to take in panoramic views across the Promised Land. Late afternoon we reach the Muslim- Christian market town of Madaba. Dinner and Overnight - Madaba.

Madaba - breakfast. 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. Dinner and Overnight - Madaba.

Madaba - Amman Airport - breakfast. Spend the morning at leisure before hotel check-out and onward transfer to airport.

Package rates:

2 Pax: 749 US $ per person

3 Pax: 620 US $ per person

4 Pax: 589 US $ per person

5 Pax: 549 US $ per person

6 Pax: 529 US $ per person

7 Pax: 519 US $ per person

Single room supplement: 125 $

Supplement for 4* Hotels: 145 $

Single room supplement: 175 $

Supplement for 5* Hotels: 420 $

Single room supplement: 245 $

Meets and assist at Airport

All transfers by deluxe car/Van, AC, modern, deluxe, with English speaking driver, including gasoline, unlimited kilometers.

Hotel accommodation at 3* hotels with dinners and breakfasts for 7 nights

Entrance fees to all sites as per itinerary

Horse ride in Petra

Jeep Safari in Wadi Rum

Tour guides at the sites

Tips and departure tax

Visa fee to Jordan: 10 JD P.P.

Travel insurance

Lunches