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One of the best known
groups from
Jordan’s
population
is
the Bedouin.
As they are known in Arabic, the Bedu, or “desert
dwellers,” endure the desert and have learned to survive its
unforgiving climate. It is difficult to count Bedouins, but it
is generally known that the majority of Jordan’s population is
of Bedouin origin.
Join the tribe of intrepid Nomads and go your own way, live with
culture and traditions, feel the taught life with them, test
their food, sleep on their mattresses
on desert sand, and their goats-hair tents, join their nights,
share with them their tea and herbal drinks.
Day by day itinerary:
Day 1: Amman – Madaba
Meets and assist at airport by our representatives, visa
formalities, transfer to
Madaba the city of Mosaics and where is the holy land map, This
map was originally part of the floor of a Byzantine church,
built during the reign of emperor Justinian, 527-565 A.D. It is
the oldest map of the Holy Land that is still extant. Five other
Byzantine churches have been discovered in Madaba,
all with nice mosaics. This has led to Madaba’s designation as
"the city of mosaics." Madaba is 20 miles (32 km) south of
Jordan’s, capital city of Amman. We will stay at familial hotel,
and to test the local food that made at home, and overnight.
Day 2: Madaba – Sweimeh
We will have breakfast at the hotel and travel down to west of
Jorda n,
travel down to Dead Sea where the Bedouin live near Sweimeh
village, to south of Dead Sea we will be welcomed by Bedouins,
and have Bedouin tea as welcome drink, group will be devided to
two parts, woman and men, and will stay at their parts, join the
night with Bedouins, and will have dinner with them, tour guides
will translate the history of the Bedouins in Dead Sea, and
their
culture, overnight.
Day 3: Sweimeh – Dead Sea – Feynan
We do same as Bedouin wake up early in the morning, have
breakfast with them, and we will have short time at private
beach in Dead Sea, floating, mud …etc, after lunch drive a long
desert to Feynan where is copper mines, and black baselt
mountains, a great landscape, which is different area then Dead
Sea, where is a different Bedouins and different tribes, has a
long histories and great stories, we will be welcomed by Bedouin
family, and share with them the night.
Day 4: Feynan – Dhra’a Mkheireigeh
In the morning breakfast with the family and drive deep in the
desert of Wadi
Arabah: Meanings in a Contested Landscape, today we live in real
landscape, in no where, middle of falt desert, and with Bedouin
never met tourist before, we will have to collect their goats
with them, cook with them our dinner, and milky their goats,
prepare for the night altogether, listen to their history, play
Rababa (Bedouin music), and summer night, dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Wadi Namala – Shkaret Msai’id
In the morning we will leave with Bedouin goats up to the
mountains, and continue driving them by our Jeeps up to 995 M up
sea level after been in 385 M above sea level to Shkarat Msaied:
situated in the sandstone mountain area some 13 km north of
Petra in the Nemelleh region right next to the track leading
from Wadi Musa into Wadi Araba. The site rests on a small
plateau in a saddle-like situation in
between two peaks. The plateau has been used for agricultural
activities in Nabatean and recent times. In a small canyon where
a very friendly Bedouin family, we will spend the night with
them and have dinner with them as well, overnight.
Day 6: Little Petra – Petra
Today we will have hiking day to visit the most important site
in Jordan, Petra: we start to visit the sites from different
trail not like usual trail from normal tours, we will do the
hiking from back side of the sites, starting to visit the
Monastery and then to Qasr Al-Bint up to treasur y
and waliking via Siq to the visitor centre, we check in at small
hotel, dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Petra – Wadi Rum
Early breakfast, drive by Jeep safari off-road from Bedouin
Village (Rajif ) and travel down to Hamad well, where is a big
Bedouin tribe live around, have cup of tea with them and
continue into desert to old Humaima, by evening will arrive to
Wadi Rum, we will escort you to the protected area, where still
some Bedouin family live there, we will have dinner with them,
and will get full information about Lawrance of Arabaia and his
true story in Wadi Rum, after
that we will have Bedouin folklore, Bedouin music, loud and
dram, star-night, you have optional to sleep under the stars or
at Bedouin tents with the family.
Day 8: Wadi Rum – Batin Ghoul
Today we will travel to where never tourist been there, Batin
Ghoul deep in east of Jordan, get lost in the desert, flat area,
where only Bedouin with their camels, we will continue by Jeep
safari and then travel into the tribe by camels, will be
traveling into hot difficult desert, and in no where, a lot of
stories and old history about the area and about the Bedouins
that live there, enjoy the amazing history and have dinner BBQ
under-ground, overnight with the Bedouin family.
Day 9: Jafir – Amman
We will travel back to Amman via un-normal way via the desert
east of Jordan, off-road, arrive to Amman late in the evening,
check in at hotel, enjoy the
night’s highlights of Amman, dinner and overnight.
Day 10: Amman – Jerash – Ajlun – Umm Qais – Amman
Today we will have classic tour: After breakfast, transfer to
Umm Qais , which was built mainly out of black basalt. Here you
can enjoy the impressive view over Lake Tiberius and the Golan
Heights. And then drive down to Rabad Castle (Ajlun castle) you
will visit the Islamic military castle of
Ajloun.
The castle was
used by the Islamic armies of Saladin to protect the region
against the crusaders. And next destination will be Jerash You
will visit Jerash, the Pompeii of the East. You will enter
Jerash
through the monumental South Gate and find yourself wandering
around in a Roman
city.
You will walk in the Oval Plaza surrounded by colonnades, visit
the Roman theatre and Byzantine churches with mosaic-covered
floors. Enjoy a stroll along Jerash’ main road the Cardo and
pass by the Nymphaeum. Jerash has been covered by sand for
centuries, the main reason why it is still so well- preserved.
You may experience the marvelous acoustics of the theatre, the
stage of the Jerash music festival which takes place every year.
And see for yourself how the Romans built the earthquake-proof
columns of the colonnaded streets. Evening back to Amman, enjoy
the night highlights of the capital of Jordan, dinner at your
hotel or at nice restaurant, overnight.
Day 11: Amman – Airport
Depend of your flight schedule, transfer to Airport, assist with
departure.   |
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