jordan - treks from wadi rum to aqaba:

Tour itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival
Meets and assist at Queen Alia Airport, assist with Visa formalities, transfer to Amman, check in at your hotel, dinner and overnight.
Check in at hotel (Dove hotel)

Distance: Airport - Amman: 42 KM

Meals provided for today: Dinner

Accommodation: Dove Hotel (Located in Amman, Tel: +962 65697601, Fax: +962 65674676, E-mail: dove@go.com.jo)
Day 2: Amman - Madaba - Nebo - Dead Sea, overnight in Madaba
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. To Dead Sea: In the seventies of the last century, the Dead Sea was rediscovered as Heaven for Treatments & Beauty. Today there are Many specialized centers around the Dead Sea dealing with treatments linked to it’s Nature beside several Spas & Hotels catering for the rejuvenation for old and young. Although called the "Dead Sea", this sea and the whole region on its shore is very much alive. The dead Sea lies some 408 km below sea level at the lowest point on the earth's surface, and is a part of the Syrian - East Africa Rift Valley, flanked by Palestine Mountains to the west and the Moab Mountains to the east. The Dead Sea is one of the most saline lakes in the world. It is fed mainly by River Jordan in the north and by perennial springs and streams from the east and west. Having no outlet, the Dead sea is a "terminal lake" which loses huge amounts of water by evaporation into the hot dry air. This results in high concentration of salts and minerals in a unique composition that is particularly rich in chloride salts of magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, bromine and various others. The Dead Sea brine's chemical composition reflects erosion, as well as the recycling of older deposits. Leaching of minerals from the geological strata also contributes to the Dead Sea brine and to a number of thermo-mineral springs along its shores. In addition, alluvial deposits form the much valued Dead Sea mineral mud, also known as Dead Sea therapeutic black mud.
(To overnight in Hammamat Ma'in is too expensive there is only one hotel and it cost 135 US $ per person, per night on HB basis, therefore we recommend to overnight in Madaba at Mosaic city hotel or Salome hotel

Distance: Amman - Madaba: 24 KM (Drive)
              Madaba - Mount Nebo: 16 KM (Drive)
              Mount Nebo - Dead Sea: 35 KM (Drive)
             Dead Sea - Madaba: 45 KM (Drive)

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 Accommodation: Mosaic City hotel in Madaba (Located down town of Madaba city, http://www.mosaiccityhotel.com/, Tele: + (962) 5-325-1313, Fax: + (962) 5-325-0013)
Day 3: Madaba - Kerak Castle - Dana Natural Reserve - Petra
After breakfast transfer to Kerak, will visit the huge castle where Saladin and Richard Lionheart fought during the crusades. The Journey will contiue a long the king's high way via some small villages to Dana natural reserve, will start from Dana Village, short visit to Dana Spring, and will have short trekking in Dana natural reserve which contains a remarkable diversity of landscapes that range from wooded highlands to rocky slopes and from gravel plains to dunes of sand. Moreover, Dana supports diverse wildlife which includes a variety of rare species of plants and animals; Dana is home to about 600 species of plants, 37 species of mammals, and 190 species of birds.We will continue to Shoback Castle, an impressive castle as a lonely reminder of former Crusader glory dating from the same turbulent period as Kerak, crowning a cone of rock, which rises above a wild and rugged landscape dotted with a grand sweep of fruit trees below.It is today known as Shobak, but to the Crusaders it was Mont Real (Crak de Montreal) or Mons Regalis, the Fortress of the Royal Mount. It was built in 1115 by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem to guard the road from Damascus to Egypt, and was the first of a string of similar strongholds in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Continue on the king's high way to Petra, your final destination today, check in at hotel, dinner and overnight.

Distance: Madaba - Kerak Castle : 85 KM (Drive)
    Kerak Castle - Dana Natural reserve: 75 KM (Drive)
    Dana natural reserve, trekking around : 4 KM (Trekking)
    Dana Natural Reserve - Shoback Castle: 39 KM (Drive)
    Shoback Castle - Petra: 25 KM (Drive)

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Petra Diamond Hotel (Located in down town of Petra city, Tel/Fax: +96232157371)
Day 4: Petra - Wadi Rum
In the morning a local guide will escort you into Petra and show you the highlights of the Nabatean city. You will enter the city through the Siq and be  rewarded with the most astonishing and dramatic monument in Jordan: the Treasury. You will also visit the theatre, the tombs and façades and the colonnaded street. You will have lunch inside Petra and climb the stairs to the Monastery and admire the splendid view over the Wadi Araba. Late afternoon you will be transferred to Wadi Rum.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.
Distance: Trekking in Petra: 5 hours
              Petra - Wadi Rum: 128 KM (Drive)

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Campsite (Private tents and sleeping bags, as well as matrresses, covers and blankets)
Day 5: Wadi Rum - Trekking
Wadi Rum is a journey to another world. A vast, silent place, timeless and starkly beautiful.. Wadi Rum is one of Jordan's main tourist attractions being the most stunning desertscape in the World, Today we start our day by short transfer by our jeep to Siq Abu Awad, a short Valley sarrounded by colored cliffs, with sand dunes at the bottom, We continue trekking to Um Ishrin, Wadi Um-'Ishrin has the best sandy vegetation. It is famous for its huge sand dunes that are not present in any other location in the protected area. The percent coverage of plants ranged from 3-21%.At the right side of Wadi Um Ishrin is Jebel Um Ishrin, the third highest mountain in Jordan, Late afternoon we trek back to our campsite, dinner and overnight
Distance: Trekking in Siq Abu Awad: 4 KM
               Trekking in Wadi Um Ishrin: 12 KM
               Total Trekking: 8 hours

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Campsite (Private tents and sleeping bags, as well as matrresses, covers and blankets)
Day 6:  Wadi Rum Trekking
Breakfast at the Bedouin campsite, we start trekking to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, famous landmark, named after the book by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). We continue to Lawrence's spring: where Lawrence of Arabia reputedly washed during the Arab Revolt. Has an attractive rock inscriptions on nearby rocks. Near Lawrence's spring we will camp with Bedouin family.
Distance:  Trekking to seven pillars of Wisdom (3 hours)
                Ttrekking to Lawrence spring (4 hours)
Accommodation: With Bedouin family

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Wadi Rum Trekking
 Breakfast with the Bedouin family, we start trekking to Khazali canyon: deep, narrow fissure in the mountain side, containing many rock inscriptions. And then we strt trekking to Al-Khuttar mountain, fine looking mountain, we visit an old cementury, from here is the route to Aqaba, we trurn around Khuttar mountain, where an amazing sunset site, there we camp for tonight.
Distance: Lawrence spring - Khaza'ali canyon: 2 hours trekking
               Khaza'ali canyon to Al-Khuttar: 2 hours trekking
              Turn round Al-Khuttar: 2 hours trekking

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 Accommodation: Campsite (Private tents and sleeping bags, as well as matrresses, covers and blankets)
Day 8: To Aqaba trekking
- Breakfast, today we head trekking for the next two days to Aqaba via the desert of Wadi Rum, we visit the Thamudic and Nabataen inscriptions, next to it drawings of animals, humans, and camel caravans. continue to Rezqah Temple, a rest of Nabateans and Thamudic temple (This temple still not well discovered) which has four walls head to south, drive to begenning of Al-Dhaiqah canyon, the longest valley in Wadi Rum, we will visit Harab Anz (Goats caves) which is Nabateans Caves, there we camp for tonight.
Distance: Trekking from Al-Khuttar to Insecreptions: 5 hours
     Trekking from Insecreptions to Rezqah Temple: 3 hours
Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Campsite (Private tents and sleeping bags, as well as matrresses, covers and blankets)
Day 9: To Aqabah Trekking
Breakfast , we strart via Valley of Dhaiqah (Siq Al-Dhaiqah), we trek in this Wadi for 7 hours, close to the high way we meet our jeeps to transfer us to hotel in Aqaba, free evening, overnight

Distance: Trekking in Siq Al-Dhaiqah: 7 hours
From high way to the hotel in Aqaba: 35 minutes drive

Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:  Aquamarina III hotel (3* hotel, located in down town of Aqaba, www.aquamarina-group.com/ )
Day 10: Aqaba (Free time) - Amman
You will be free part of the day according to your own wishes. Suggestions: diving or snorkeling, relaxing on one of the beautiful sandy beaches. Or perhaps you would like to take a trip on a glass boat and see the amazing coral reefs. Dinner and overnight at hotel in Aqaba. Late afternoon drive to Amman, via desert high way, check in at your hotel, overnight
Distance: Aqaba - Amman : 320 KM (Drive)
Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Dove Hotel (Located in Amman, Tel: +962 65697601, Fax: +962 65674676, E-mail: dove@go.com.jo)
Day 11: Departure
Depend of flight schedule, if you have time free time shopping in Amman, transfer to Airport, assist with departure
Distance: Amman - Airport: 42 KM (Drive)
Meals provided today: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: None