7-Day Jordan Highlights Tour with Petra, Wadi Rum and Dead Sea

Meet your tour representative and driver at Amman Airport.

Transfer to Amman city in about 30 minutes.

Overnight stay at your accommodation in Amman.

Have an early breakfast at your hotel and meet your Jordanian driver in the lobby around 8:00-9:00 AM.

Drive 50 km north to Jerash. One of the most well-preserved cities of the Roman Empire, Jerash is often called the Pompeii of the East.

Enjoy a 1.5-hour guided tour in Jerash. Visit Hadrian's Arch, built in 130 CE to honour the visit of Emperor Hadrian, and marvel at the ancient Hippodrome, which once held 15,000 raving spectators. Continue to the Temple of Artemis and gaze in awe at its 12-metre-high columns, then stroll along the Colonnaded Street and past the Nymphaeum.

Transfer to the city of Ajloun through beautiful pine forests and olive groves.

Visit Ajloun Castle, a 12th-century castle built by one of Saladin's lieutenants during the campaign against the Crusaders, and explore the castle at your leisure.

Proceed north to Umm Qais, situated on the border with Israel and offering impressive views over the Golan Heights and the Sea of Galilee.

Return to Amman on a 1.5-hour drive.

Rest overnight at your accommodation in Amman.

Begin your day with an early breakfast at your hotel. Your driver will pick you up from the hotel at 8:00 AM and drive through the King's Highway to Petra, stopping at many sites along the way.

Visit Madaba and see the 6th-century Mosaic Map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Stop and enjoy the view at Mount Nebo, where Moses is said to have looked out to the Promised Land. On a clear day, you can look out over the Dead Sea all the way to Jerusalem.

Continue down the King's Highway and stop at the Wadi Mujib viewpoint. Known as the Grand Canyon of Jordan, this expansive valley offers great views.

Drive to Karak, where you will visit Karak Castle, the famous Crusader castle built in 1132 by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Stop at the Dana viewpoint before continuing to Petra.

Rest overnight in Petra.

After breakfast at your hotel, proceed to Petra with your tour guide. Walk through the 1.2 km-long chasm, passing shrines, tombs, and carvings, to reach the lost city of Petra.

See the magnificent Treasury as you exit the chasm, explore the Street of Facades, Roman Theatre, and Colonnaded Street, and end your three-hour guided tour at Qasr Bint.

Enjoy some free time to explore further on your own. You may visit the Byzantine Church, the Temple of the Winged Lions, the Monastery, and the High Place of Sacrifice.

Rest overnight at your hotel in Petra.

Have breakfast at your hotel in the morning.

Make your way to Little Petra to see fine examples of ancient Roman dining hall structures and some of the last remaining Nabataean fresco works located on the ceilings of one of them.

Drive for two hours to reach Wadi Rum.

Set out on a wilderness adventure on a 4x4 jeep tour of Wadi Rum, and enjoy climbing sand dunes and rock bridges. During this 4-5 hour jeep tour with your Bedouin guide, you will visit the following sites:

• Nabatean Temple

• Lawrence Spring

• Sand Dunes

• Khazali Canyon

• Little Bridge

• Um Frouth Rock Bridge

• Lawrence House

• Burdah Rock Bridge

Enjoy a packed lunch during the jeep tour.

On the way back, you may choose to spend an hour riding a camel at an extra cost of 10 JD/15 USD per hour, per camel.

Have dinner and spend the night under the stars at a Bedouin camp in Wadi Rum.

Enjoy breakfast and sunrise at the Bedouin camp.

Meet your driver at Wadi Rum Village and make your way to the Dead Sea area on a 3.5-hour journey.

On the way, visit Bethany, where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus in the River Jordan.

Check in to your hotel by the Dead Sea.

Spend the afternoon at leisure. You may enjoy the facilities of the hotel and choose to go for a swim to experience the unique sensation of floating in the Dead Sea.

Rest overnight at the hotel.

Have breakfast at your hotel.

Enjoy some free time to rest and relax at the hotel.

Transfer to Amman Airport on a 1-hour drive for your departing flight.