Arabia in A Week (8 Days)

Dubai and Jordan a la Indiana Jones
An Eight Day Near East Adventure
Including Wadi Rum and The Dead Sea

Indiana Jones himself couldn’t squeeze more adventure into this journey

Jordan: Famous the world over for the ethic of hospitality of the Bedouin, Jordan, a gem of the middle east, delights and surprises. Jordan offers the traveler a piece of living history, to walk through and experience. While the evidence of Jordan’s colorful history tantalizes the traveler, Jordan is closer to you than you’d think, if only from the images of it you’ve seen in films. Come with us to explore this country’s treasures. We’ll visit the Siq, the narrow, winding fissure between sandstone cliffs to the Treasury (that amazing building made so famous in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and the lost city of Petra, carved into the rose red Shara mountains by the Nabateans.

Dubai: a true taste of Arabia with a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In Dubai you’ll find year round sunshine and un-crowded, clean sandy beaches. In this crime-free society you ‘ll find a very warm & welcoming team & society awaits you in Dubai. While shopping may not be high on your list, you will find Dubai’s tax free markets means bargains galore. Attractive traditional Middle Eastern gifts – coffee pots, rugs, silverware, jewelry, brass, and one of the world’s greatest gold trading centers offering unbeatable value. Hong Kong is no longer able to compete with Dubai with the wide selection of low-priced international brand name products – audio equipment, VCRs, cameras, watches, fashions, perfumes and more, do not forget the award-winning Dubai Duty Free at the airport.

DAY 1 – Dubai
Private Touring: Daily Arrival- Choose Your Own Date. Weekly Group Tour – Year Round: Thursday
Rate details for both choices listed below.
Start in Dubai or Amman
Arrive at Dubai International Airport at the United Arab Emirate on the Arabian Gulf. Complimentary visa will be issued upon arrival for the following nationalities;UK, EU, Switzerland, Sweden, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei. You are responsible for having a valid passport. Upon arrival, our local rep will meet you and escort you to your hotel.

Arriving at Dubai International Airport you’ll be delighted to discover Travel in Style’s VIP Red Carpet welcome procedures: you are met by our English-speaking representative who escorts you from your plane to a comfortable air-conditioned lounge where you can freshen up and recover from your flight. While you relax, our representative completes your Immigration procedures, collects your luggage, clears it through Customs, and transfers it to your private, air-conditioned vehicle. Escorted from the lounge to your vehicle, your private chauffeur transfers you to your hotel, assisting with your luggage when you arrive. Red Carpet Treatment: that’s the Travel in Style difference.

DAY 2 – Dubai – Friday (BD)
Half Day Dubai City Tour:
Sample the historic sites and vibrant cosmopolitan life of Dubai on this comprehensive tour. The Tour begins in Jumeira, the picturesque palace and residential area of Dubai, also home to the famous Jumeira Mosque. The next stop is Sheikh Saeed House (former residence of ruling family). The Tour then continues to Al Bastakiya, the old part of Dubai, to reach the museum located in Al Fahidi Fort. All guests board the Abra (water taxi) to cross the Creek to the spice souk. Before savoring the sights and sounds of the fish, fruit and vegetable market, there is time to shop in the most famous landmark of Dubai – the Gold souk.

Evening Dhow Cruise Dinner:
For a fabulous relaxing evening join our fully fitted Arabian dhow for an evening’s cruise on the Creek. Enjoy a sumptuous feast of Arabic and Western cuisine while gently gliding past illuminated souks, banks and palaces.

DAY 3 – Desert Safari with dinner in the Arabian Desert – DUBAI: Saturday (BD)
Half Day Desert Safari (4 Wheel Drive):
Morning at leisure, enjoy beach activities. This tour departs in the afternoon across the desert of Dubai with several photo-stops during an exciting dune drive. Before entering the desert your driver deflates the wheels of the 4X4 and then the fun starts. Dune bashing has become known as a fun experience – you will feel the thrill of desert driving as your professional driver takes you up and down on golden dunes. The drive continues across the desert. Please alert us in advance or your local guide if you prefer to skip the dune bashing aspect of the drive.

DAY 4 – DUBAI -East Coast Tour: Sunday (BL)
After breakfast, we head for Dhaid and then on to the Hajar mountains that offer a beautiful natural backdrop for Dubai. A stop at a local market, where the local shop for locally made pottery, fruits and carpets. We stop as well in Dibba and a brief stop at the colorful local fish market, always with the fresh catch from the Arabian Gulf. We drive along the coast passing by m enchanting small villages and fishermen wharfs, we arrive at Al Badiyah mosque, one of the earliest mosques built in the UAE, continue on to Khor Fakkan, a regional popular spot for diving and snorkeling, where there will be an opportunity to relax at the beach and have a refreshing swim. Stop as well as the Khor Fakkah souk. Continue to Fujairah where we stop at the renovated Fort. Before returning to Dubai, stop at the oasis of Bitnah and time to wander on the “Friday Market” in Masafi. Lunch is included enroute in a charming local restaurant.

DAY 5 – Dubai – Amman – Petra: Monday (B)
After breakfast, our local rep escorts you to the airport for your flight to Amman (air fare is included & issued in Dubai). From Amman airport you’ll drive to Petra, arrive at your hotel in Petra and overnight.

Jordanian visa fee, please pay $30 upon arrival at Amman Airport. Visa issued upon arrival for a limited number of nationalities such as: for American, Australian, NZ, Canadian, EU Citizens, Singaporean & Japanese citizens. Passports must be valid for at least 6 month upon arrival.

DAY 6 – PETRA: Tuesday (BD)
We’ll spend the entire day at Petra, the stunning desert city hewn by the Nabateans from solid cliffs of pink and violet sandstone. Petra was known in the bible as Sela, and rediscovered only in 1812. You’ll feel like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark as you penetrate into the city through a narrow sandstone gorge, the Siq, and wander among the Temple of the Winged Lion, tombs, Roman theater, and the imposing Treasury.

Petra has a lot to tell. The visit starts at the visitor’s center, where each person is assigned a Bedouin guided horse for the journey to the entrance of the lost city. After passing some tombs which are located outside the city, the visitor passes through the SIQ, an immense crack in the Nubian sandstone. It is a winding, one-kilometer-long fissure between overhanging cliffs that seem to meet more than 300 feet overhead.

Near the end of the passage, the SIQ, with great style, makes one last turn and out of the gloom in towering brightness appears Petra’s most impressive monument, el Khazneh – The Treasury. This is one of the most elegant remains of antiquity, carved out of the solid rock from the side of the mountain, is nearly 140 feet high and 90 feet wide.

Beyond el Khazneh the visitor is surrounded on both sides by hundreds of Petra’s carved and built structures, soaring temples, elaborate royal tombs, a carved Roman theater, large and small houses, burial chambers and much more. The Victorian traveler and poet, Dean Burgon, gave Petra a description which holds to this day – “Match me such a marvel save in Eastern clime, a rose-red city half as old as time.” After that, we will return to the hotel to get prepared for a Moonlight dinner served at a Bedouin camp. This evening we have a fantastic traditional dinner under the stars in a Bedouin camp, at a site that dates back more than 2,000 years.

DAY 7 – Wadi Rum – The Dead Sea: Wednesday (BL)
We board four-wheel-drive vehicles for an expedition to Wadi Rum, the “Valley of the Moon” where T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) organized Arab resistance to Ottoman rule during World War I. After our visit, we break for tea with the bedouins then head off north to the Dead Sea and your hotel resort. Deluxe: Movenpick Dead Sea or Kempinski Ishtar Dead Sea.

First class: Dead Sea Spa Hotel. Lunch is included enroute.

DAY 8 – Departure-Amman Airport: Thursday (B)
After breakfast at the hotel, our local rep. escorts you to Amman airport of Amman for your flight home. Bon Voyage. For the 7-day version, please click here

Prices include:

• All transfers in Dubai & Jordan.
• International air fare one way in economy class between Dubai & Amman with tax.
• Air-conditioned hotel accommodations with tax and service charges
• Sightseeing with professional guide and entrance fees as indicated
• Meals as indicated, with pre-set menu (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner).
• Complimentary UAE visa will be issued upon arrival for a limited number of nationalities such as: UK, EU, Switzerland, Sweden, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei. You are responsible for having a valid passport. Upon arrival.
• Dubai VIP Meet & Greet Service at the Airport:
  Arriving at Dubai International Airport you’ll be delighted to discover Travel in Style’s VIP Red Carpet welcome procedures: you are met by our English-speaking representative who escorts you from your plane to a comfortable air-conditioned lounge where you can freshen up and recover from your flight. While you relax, our representative completes your Immigration procedures, collects your luggage, clears it through Customs, and transfers it to your private, air-conditioned vehicle. Escorted from the lounge to your vehicle, your private chauffeur transfers you to your hotel, assisting with your luggage when you arrive. Red Carpet Treatment: that’s the Travel in Style difference.
• Hotel accommodation as per itinerary, tax included

• Meet and Greet upon arrival by guest services agent and porter.
• Access to the Ahlan lounge whilst immigration formalities are completed.
• Luggage collection by the porter and escort all the way out to the meeting point.
• Ahlan service is available only in Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 and for only the arrivals.

Not included:

• Personal expenses and beverages
• International air fare from / to your home country
• Gratuities
• Jordanian visa fee in $ USD or Euros payable upon arrival for American, Australian, NZ, Canadian & Japanese citizens. Passports must be valid for at least 6 month upon arrival).
• Trip interruption and cancellation insurance