DAY 1: Arrive Amman, JORDAN
You are met on arrival in Amman, and driven to Jerash, one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the Middle East. The city boasts of an unbroken chain of human occupation dating back more than 6,500 years. Tour through the colonnaded streets, spacious public squares and plazas, baths, fountains and city walls pierced by towers and gates, and crowned with soaring hilltop temples. See the enormous oval-shaped Forum, the Temples of Zeus and Artemis and the Street of Columns. Arrive at your luxury hotel in Amman by late afternoon.
►Suggested hotel:
Four Seasons Hotel, Amman

DAY 2: Amman to Madaba Petra, JORDAN
This morning travel along the 5,000-year-old Kings´ Highway, to Madaba, “The City of Mosaics”. Known for its spectacular Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, it is home to the famous 6th century mosaic map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Containing two million pieces of colored stone, the map depicts hills and valleys, villages Exploring Petra and towns as far as the Nile Delta. After lunch, continue to visit Mt. Nebo, thought to be the burial place of Moses, and from where he viewed the Promised Land. See across the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, and over the Great Rift Valley and the Dead Sea. Your Kings' Highway route then winds through the picturesque, shallow Wadi Wala Valley, before plunging more than 2,000 feet into Jordan's miniature Grand Canyon, the Wadi Mujib. Visit Kerak, a crusader castle with remains dating back to the Iron Age. Arrive in the ancient rose-red city of Petra. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it was the center of the ancient world's spice and incense routes. It is a city securely hiddenin encircling mountains, and one of the most unique travel destinations and experiences in the world.
►Suggested hotel:
Movenpick Petra, Amman

DAY 3: Petra, JORDAN
Located on the edges of the mountainous desert of the Wadi Araba, Petra is surrounded by towering hills of rust-colored sandstone, which gave it natural protection against invaders. A compelling sight, Petra was carved from sandstone cliffs by the ancient Nabateans in the 3 century BC, then forgotten for 1,000 years and only rediscovered in 1812. Petra captivates the imagination of many an adventurer, explorer, historian and archaeologist. Explore this fascinating hidden city, set in a canyon where the only entrance is a half-mile-long, narrow chasm(siq), the walls of which soar up over 650 feet. Begin your excursion by horseback, and continue on foot to the exquisite facade of the Treasury, the Corinthian Tombs, and for those adventurous types, a climb to the Monastery. Petra's most famous monument, the Treasury, appears dramatically at the end of the siq. Used in the film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," the towering facade of the Treasury is only one of a myriad of archaeological wonders at Petra. Walks and climbs reveal literally hundreds of buildings, tombs, temples, a 3,000-seat open-air amphitheatre, as well as an archeological museum.
►Suggested hotel:
Movenpick Petra, Amman

DAY 4: Petra to Wadi Rum to Aqaba, JORDAN
Today drive to the Red Sea, stopping en route to visit Wadi Rum, known as ‘The Valley of the Moon.’ T.E. Lawrence so elegantly described this region, where weather and winds shape the landscape, as “vast, echoing and god-like.” Take a 4-wheel drive jeep tour through this maze of monolithic rockscapes that rise up from the desert floor to heights of 5,750 feet. Discover 4000-year-old rock drawings and breathtaking vistas. Continue to Aqaba, located on the shores of the Red Sea, with lovely sandy beaches, and the coral reefs that host some of the best marine diving and snorkeling sites in the world. Enjoy a ride in a glass bottom boat on the Red Sea.
►Suggested hotel:
Movenpick, Aqaba

DAY 5: Aqaba to Amman, JORDAN
This morning, fly from Aqaba to Amman, a bustling city of two million people and known as the “White City” because all its buildings are finished in the local white limestone. Amman is the modern, as well as the ancient, capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. While much of Amman has been built over the past 50 years, significant archaeological remains give testament to this ancient city’s place in history. Your tour visits Citadel Hill and the Jordan Archaeological Museum, containing antiquities from prehistoric times through the 15th century, including Umayyad artwork, Iron Age coffins and examples of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Citadel Hill offers a view across the Old City and is the site of the ruins of the Temple of Hercules, the Umayyad Palace (an Arab castle dating from the 7th-century), a Byzantine church, and the remains of Roman walls. At the foot of the Citadel, carved into the hill, lies a 6,000-seat Roman amphitheatre resembling a deep-sided bowl.
►Suggested hotel:
Four Seasons Hotel, Amman

DAY 6: Depart Amman, JORDAN
Today you are taken to the airport for your flight home or on to your next destination.