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

• Upon arrival at Amman Airport, the representative will meet you with a Petra Nights Tours sign after you pass through customs.

• Transfer for about 30 minutes to your hotel in Amman, check in, and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

• Start the day with a city tour of Jordan's capital. Amman, already mentioned in the Bible as Rabbath Ammon, is a bustling modern city.

• The historical sites are located downtown, where you visit the Citadel with remains from the Roman to the early Islamic period.

• Then, take a round through the Archaeological Museum.

• Stroll through the Souq, where you get an idea of everyday life, and continue to the Roman Theater from the 2nd century, with 6,000 seats.

• Then head to the Desert Castles in eastern Jordan. Amra Castle is adorned with its zodiac dome and early examples of Umayyad fresco paintings, while the fortress-like and mysterious Qasr Kharanah and the black basalt Roman-Medieval Islamic fort at Azraq are also visited.

• Return to Amman.

Overnight at your Amman hotel.

• At 08:00 am, drive for two hours from Amman to Gadara (Umm Qais), which belonged to the famous Decapolis, a union of 10 cities founded by Alexander the Great.

• Here, enjoy an overwhelming view over the northern Jordan Valley, the Golan Heights, and the Sea of Galilee.

• Continue to Jerash, the best example of a Roman provincial city in the whole Middle East.

• Visit the spectacular forum, the Roman colonnaded street, the Nymphaeum, and the Temple of Artemis.

Return to Amman for an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, travel to Madaba, where you find the famous 6th-century mosaic map of Palestine in St. George's Church.

• Then continue to Mt. Nebo, the place where Prophet Moses gazed at the Promised Land before he died. Visit the old monastery and overlook the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and parts of the Holy Land.

• Not far away, you find the Dead Sea Panorama Complex, where you enjoy the views and learn about the Dead Sea area in the museum.

• Driving along the famous ancient caravan route, the King's Way, you make a short stop in Wadi Al-Mujib, a great wide valley with magnificent geological formations.

• In Kerak, visit the famous Crusader castle built in 1132/34 by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Dinner and overnight at a camp in Little Petra.

• After an early breakfast, start towards the El Deir Monastery.

• From the bizarre landscape of Little Petra, cross the Baida region towards the Petra gorges to arrive at the Monastery, high above the main site.

• Enjoy the views of the Rift Valley of Wadi Araba as you walk.

Overnight at your Petra hotel.

• After breakfast, head to the red rose city of Petra, the biggest attraction in Jordan. Petra was first established around the 6th century B.C. by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and laid the foundation of a commercial empire that extended into Syria.

• With the guide, pass through the canyon, the so-called Siq, to see the most beautiful monument, the Treasury. Continue via the Street of Facades to the Royal Tombs and Pharaoh's Castle.

• After that, enjoy free time to explore Petra on your own.

Overnight in Petra.

• At 07:45 am, get picked up from the hotel and travel 1.5 hours south to the protected area of Wadi Rum, one of the most impressive desert landscapes in the world.

• At about 9:30 am, meet your guide and the camels, then start riding towards the red sand dunes through the Rum and Um Ishrin valleys.

• On the way, stop at Lawrence's Spring.

• After taking a look at the Nabataean inscriptions in Anfashiyeh, leave the camels and camel guide behind to cross a sand dune, where a jeep will join you for lunch and a rest in the shade of the mountain.

• In the afternoon, use the jeep to visit the natural rock bridges in Jebel Burdah and Um Fruth. You will have the opportunity to climb the latter if you wish.

• Then walk through Abu Khasheba Canyon. Your guide will wait for you at the end of the canyon and drive you to the sunset spot before going to your camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Today, the journey takes you to Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan's largest reserve, with diverse flora and fauna and a landscape of mountains and wadis.

• From the village, inhabited for more than 400 years by Bedouins, start a short hike of about 2 hours.

• Transfer to your Dead Sea hotel. At 400 meters below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth.

• After breakfast, get picked up from the hotel lobby for a 1-hour transfer to Amman Airport to say farewell.