The Best of Jordan in 5 days (Wadi Rum)

Choose Your Own Arrival Date
Private Tour of Jordan and Petra
Camp in Wadi Rum

Dawn in the Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan. © Anton Petrus | Wikimedia Commons

A Private 5-Day Arabian Adventure. See the top sights in Jordan on this fully escorted private tour of Jordan including Amman, Petra, The Dead Sea and camping in Wadi Rum. We have even included all the tips – No Hidden Charges – No Additional Tax. Compare with the 6 day version, add a foray into Dana Nature Reserve. Combine this tour with any Travel in Style tour to Egypt or Turkey for an even more exciting vacation adventure.

DAY 1: AMMAN – Arrive any day – Choose your own arrival day – Year Round.
Our local rep. will meet you upon arrival and help with the transfer to your hotel in Amman.

• Deluxe Hotel Category: Sheraton Al-Nabil Hotel or similar
• First Class hotel category: Golden Tulip or similar

Add an extra day in Amman? Please click here.

DAY 2: Amman – Madaba – Kerak – PETRA (BL)
Your own private guide will be escorting you from Amman all the way throughout the trip. Today, we drive south along the King’s Highway, an ancient caravan route, to Madaba to visit the church containing the oldest known map of the Holy Land. Continuing to Mount Nebo, we enjoy the panoramic view of the Promised Land the way Moses saw it for the first time. Further on, at Kerak, we tour the ruins of its romantic Crusaders’ castle of Renaud de Chatillon, one of a line which stretched from Aqaba to Turkey. Lunch is included enroute. All our lunches on this tour include tea or coffee, as well as one large bottle of water for each guest. Finally, we arrive to PETRA, where dinner awaits you at the hotel. Deluxe: Marriott Petra, Movenpick Petra Hotel, or similar. First Class: Golden Tulip or similar.

DAY 3: Petra – Wadi Rum Luxury Camping (BLD)
Today the fabulous Nabatean City of Petra awaits us. Made famous in the Indiana Jones movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” its ancient temples, tombs and striking Khazneh (Treasury) were hewn right from the pink and violet sandstone. ride into Petra on a horse or a camel, as you wish.

Sun City Camp

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. Lunch box is included. After our visit we head to one of the local camp sites. It is essential to take several layers of clothes, including warm layers, this is desert weather, so there is a great drop and / or increase in temperatures with sunrise / sunset. Sample camp site: the Sun City Camp, or the RSCN Rummana Campsite at the Dana Nature Reserve. You may have the choice as well to camp with the bedouins. This is more basic, and has no modern toilet facilities. This is an exotic and memorable experience and will enable you to experience something of the Bedouin’s desert culture. Dinner is included camp style.

For guests who prefer to spend this night at Dana Nature Reserve rather than Wadi Rum, please click here. At Dana Nature Reserve, you will be staying at Feynan EcoLodge. Escape the beaten path. A sensory experience awaits.

DAY 4: WADI RUM – The Dead Sea (BL)
After an early breakfast we enjoy morning camel ride before we change our mode of transportation and drive back north and on to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth and experience floating in the waters of the Dead Sea, where we spend the night. For deluxe hotel category: Kempinski Ishtar Dead Sea, the Mövenpick Dead Sea or similar. For First Class hotels: Dead Sea Oases Hotel or similar

Lunch is included enroute. All our lunches on this tour include tea or coffee, as well as one large bottle of water for each guest.

DAY 5: Departure (B)
We drive to Amman’s Queen Alia Airport, departure tax is included in our rate. Bon Voyage!

Your fully escorted tour includes:

• All transfers are on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur.
• All guided sightseeing as per itinerary, always on a private basis, with a private guide escorting you from Amman all the way.
• Accommodation with breakfast daily.
• Pre-set menu meals as indicated in the itinerary: L = Lunch, D = Dinner, all our lunches on this tour include tea or coffee, as well as one large bottle of water for each guest.
• Admission fees to museums and sites as detailed in the itinerary.
• Tips to hotel and restaurant staff, drivers and guides in Jordan
• Visa for Jordan. Limited to specific nationalities such as: Australian, NZ, USA, Canada, EU, Japan and others (please check with us if needed at the time of booking).

The tour does not include:

• International airfare.
• Travel Insurance
• Personal expenditures (beverages, laundry, special meals, etc.)
• Tips