Jordan Private Tour 2 Nights

Cross the border at Sheikh
Hussein Bridge in to Jordan. We will continue overland to Jerash, the
Graeco-Roman city [ancient Gerasa], and close second to Petra on the list of
favorite destinations in Jordan. Boasting an unbroken chain of human
occupation dating back more than 6,500 years and hidden for centuries in sand
before being excavated and restored over the past 70 years, Jerash is a fine
example of the grand, formal and provincial Roman towns found throughout the
Middle East. One can walk beneath four imposing gates or down the
"Street of Columns" north from the “Oval Plaza” while stepping over
the tracks of chariot wheels still visible in the paving stones. Back
to Amman hotel for overnight.    

After breakfast transfer to
Petra en-route visiting Madaba, Mount Nebo and Kerak (Kings Highway). The
trip south from the dead sea takes us to the 5,000-year-old King's
Highway, one of the most memorable journeys in the Holy Land, passing through
a string of ancient sites. The first city you come upon is Madaba, "the
City of Mosaics". Madaba's chief attraction, in the contemporary Greek
Orthodox Church of St. Georg, is a wonderfully vivid, sixth-century Byzantine
mosaic map showing Jerusalem and other holy sites. Ten minutes to the west is
the most revered site in Jordan: Mount Nebo, the memorial of Moses, the
presumed site of the prophet's death and burial place. A small, square church
was built on the spot by early Byzantine Christians and later expanded into a
vast complex. Later proceed further south to Kerak. Kerak lies about 150 Km
south of Amman. It is famous of its crusader fortress in the center of
underground galleries, rooms and secret passageways and its thick defensive
walls pierced by narrow arrow slits where crusader archers held out bravely
but in vain for over 100 years. It was the crusaders who made Kerak famous.
The fortress was built in 1142 by Payen Le Boutellier, the lord of Montreal.
He made Kerak the new capital of the province because it was situated on the
king's highway, where it could control all traffic from north and south.
After the tours, proceed to Aqaba for check in and overnight    

after breakfast ,Enjoy
a guided tour of the many sites of Petra. Petra was carved into the
rose-red Sharah Mountains by the Nabateans and lost to Civilization until
re-discovered by the Swiss Burkhardt. Around 11,000 BC Stone Age man was
already exploiting the abundant natural resources of the Petra region,
particularly wild goats and by 7000 BC some of the world’s earliest farmers
were living in a walled village at Beidha, cultivating cereals and collecting
nuts and fruits. But Petra really came to prominence in the 7C BC when
the Edomites settled on Umm al-Biyara and other mountain strongholds and
built a town at Tawilan above ’Ain Musa, in the hills to the north.
Subject to Assyria, Babylonia, and then Persia, Edom in the 3C BC became the
nucleus of an Arab state, the Nabateans kingdom and its capital at
Petra. Originally from North Arabia, the Nabateans are first mentioned
by the 1C BC historian Diodorus, who relates that in 312 BC Antigonus, the
One-Eyed sent his general Athenaeus against ‘the land of the Arabs who are
called Nabateans’, at that time a nomadic people who raised cattle and sheep
and could survive for long periods in the desert, where they created a
network of secret underground reservoirs. Athenaeus attacked a certain
strong, though un-walled rock, perhaps the great massif of Umm al-Biyara at
Petra, where the Nabateans had left their valuables, elders, women and
children while celebrating a festival, killed some of the Arabs there and
made off with vast quantities of frankincense, myrrh and silver. Some
150 years later the Nabateans had settled and Petra was the capital of an
organized state, walk through the Siq, a narrow and winding fissure between
the cliffs, to reach the Treasury, the Roman Theater, the Courts, Qasr Bint
Pharaoun, Temple of the Winged Lion and other monuments. Then drive Sheikh
Hussein bridge for departure