RUN THROUGH JORDAN
(3 DAYS - 2 NIGHTS )
DAY 1: QUEEN ALIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – AMMAN
Arrival at Queen Alia International Airport, where you will be met by JAT representative to help you through formalities and finalizing your entrance visa to Jordan and collect your baggage. Overnight / Amman.
DAY 2: AMMAN - PETRA - AMMAN
Transfer to visit the ancient city of PETRA, one of Jordan’s national treasures and by far its best known tourist attraction. Petra is the legacy of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2,000 years ago. Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritages Site and one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. Inhabited by the Nabateans, Edomites and Romans, Petra brought together the knowledge and skill of these civilizations to create this world wonder. Caravans laden with incense, silks, spices and other exotic goods would rest at Petra. Overnight / Amman.
DAY 3: AMMAN CITY TOUR – MADABA – NEBO – AIRPORT
Visit Amman DOWNTOWN market and city center, its traditional souks, restaurants selling local food and sweets, churches and mosques. AMMAN is also the ancient city of Philadelphia with its roman theater and many other monuments that can be visited like the citadel. then drive to the other side of the city where you can see the pubs, international restaurants, and discotheques as you become familiar with the contrast between old and traditional, to the new and modern.
Visit MADABA, the city of Mosaics, a combination of rural home life and a hot spot for religious tourism. Known as the “City of Mosaics” Madaba is the cultural epicenter for Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics. Just a short distance from the capitol visitors are just a stone's throw away from the holy monuments of religious iconography.
Proceed to MOUNT NEBO is most known for being the site where Moses overlooked the Holy Land but did not enter it and where a church and a monastery were built to honor him. The book of Numbers (33:47) mentions that when the children of Israel moved from Almon Diblathaim they camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo, and that the children of Reuben rebuilt the city (Numbers 32:38).
