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This tour will be in Wadi Araba desert, and
Wadi rum desert, through these two destinations we will visit
the most important destination in Jordan: Petra
Wadi Araba: 1st – 3rd day:
our first three days will start from first
destination which is Wadi Araba: A wadi is a dry river bed or
valley. Wadi Arabah is one of the larger wadi's in the Middle
East. It extends 165 km north from Aqaba to the Dead Sea. From
Here on it is known as the Ghor, which includes not only the
Dead Sea but also the Jordan Valley all the way to the Sea of
Galilee. A preliminary reconnaissance was done in the south
east. (Southeast Arabah Archaeological Reconnaissance - SAAR).
Of interest to our topic is the archeological dig at Moyet Awad
(Moa in the Arabah), on the Sela - Gaza road, that found coins,
pottery, a caravan station, but no houses. The Arabah was
generally considered too harsh for towns or villages to develop.
The symposium, titled "Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes,
Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah," is the
first multidisciplinary conference devoted to the archaeology
and history of the area that forms the modern political border
between Israel and Jordan.
Activity:
You will jump over the sky-high sand dunes of
Wadi Araba.
The best off-road of Jordan will take you to
Ras Namalah,
the 1000 meters high peak in the Rift mountains. At the end of
this road Petra will be awaiting you, glorious as ever. Here you
will stay overnight.
(Transport: Jeep Safari, Camels, Horses or
donkeys)
Petra: 4th & 5th day:
Petra: a local guide will escort you into
Petra
and show you the highlights of the Nabatean city. You will enter
the city through the Siq and be rewarded
 with the most
astonishing and dramatic monument in Jordan: the Treasury. You
will also visit the theatre, the tombs and façades and the
colonnaded street. climb the stairs to the Monastery and admire
the splendid view over the Wadi Araba. In the evening we will
serve you dinner by a campfire in Little Petra.
(Transport: Camels, Horses or walk)
Wadi Rum: 6th – 10th day:
Our Bedouin guides will lead
your
way across the vast and empty desert of
Wadi Rum.
You will be riding from camp site to camp site, enjoying
different areas in the desert.
Activity:
The sixth day will take
you to
Umm Salab Mountain, near the northern end of Wadi
Rum. The next day you will see the famous inscriptions, made by
the Thamudic and Nabatéen people centuries ago. You will camp
near Jabal Burdah where you can climb one of the famous rock
bridges, sculpted into the sandstone rock by the wind and rain.
On the 8th day the tour will continue to the far
south of Wadi Rum, to Jordan’s highest mountains Jabal Umm
Adaami (1830 meters). From the top of the mountain you can see
as far as Saudi Arabia.
On the 9th day and 10th day the tour will
continue to Al Ghuroub and to the Sandy area of Al Ramel, where
you can contemplate the silence, sitting on top of the sky-high
sand dunes.
(Transport: Camels, Horses or Jeep Safari)
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