Day 1: DEAD SEA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI ISHTAR
Your driver will be waiting at Amman (AMM) airport to take you directly to your luxurious Kempinski resort / spa hotel by the Dead Sea (a 50-minute drive). There are no activities planned for today. You'll be staying here three nights. Please keep in mind that hotel check-in time is typically after 2.00pm. Early check in is not guaranteed, but if you do arrive early luggage storage is available at the hotel.
The hotel is a beautiful, relaxing place to stay. You'll be able to relax by the pools, visit the health spa, or float in the warm, intensely saline water of the Dead Sea. It is an unforgettable experience! The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth (some 400m below sea level) and contains mineral-rich muds that have been recognized since antiquity for their curative properties. This mud costs a fortune in Europe, but in Jordan you can scoop it from the seabed and cover yourself with it! The blue water, the white salt-encrusted shore, and the red desert mountains also make this an outstandingly beautiful place.
FOR OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS PLEASE SEE THE IDEAS BELOW.
Day 2: DEAD SEA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI ISHTAR
Your driver will be waiting at Amman (AMM) airport to take you directly to your luxurious Kempinski resort / spa hotel by the Dead Sea (a 50-minute drive). There are no activities planned for today. You'll be staying here three nights. Please keep in mind that hotel check-in time is typically after 2.00pm. Early check in is not guaranteed, but if you do arrive early luggage storage is available at the hotel.
The hotel is a beautiful, relaxing place to stay. You'll be able to relax by the pools, visit the health spa, or float in the warm, intensely saline water of the Dead Sea. It is an unforgettable experience! The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth (some 400m below sea level) and contains mineral-rich muds that have been recognized since antiquity for their curative properties. This mud costs a fortune in Europe, but in Jordan you can scoop it from the seabed and cover yourself with it! The blue water, the white salt-encrusted shore, and the red desert mountains also make this an outstandingly beautiful place.
FOR OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS PLEASE SEE THE IDEAS BELOW.
Day 3: DEAD SEA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI ISHTAR
Your driver will be waiting at Amman (AMM) airport to take you directly to your luxurious Kempinski resort / spa hotel by the Dead Sea (a 50-minute drive). There are no activities planned for today. You'll be staying here three nights. Please keep in mind that hotel check-in time is typically after 2.00pm. Early check in is not guaranteed, but if you do arrive early luggage storage is available at the hotel.
The hotel is a beautiful, relaxing place to stay. You'll be able to relax by the pools, visit the health spa, or float in the warm, intensely saline water of the Dead Sea. It is an unforgettable experience! The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth (some 400m below sea level) and contains mineral-rich muds that have been recognized since antiquity for their curative properties. This mud costs a fortune in Europe, but in Jordan you can scoop it from the seabed and cover yourself with it! The blue water, the white salt-encrusted shore, and the red desert mountains also make this an outstandingly beautiful place.
FOR OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS PLEASE SEE THE IDEAS BELOW.
Day 4: PETRA AND AQABA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI AQABA
Today you'll be driven from the Dead Sea south to Aqaba. Along the way you'll stop to spend most of the day exploring the magnificent lost city of Petra.
No matter how many times you've seen it reproduced on film, nothing can really prepare you for the first glimpse of Petra. The classic entry to the city takes you through the long twilight of the siq, a narrow canyon that twists for more than a mile through the red sandstone, and then stuns you into silence with the sunlit façade of the Treasury, a monument cut into the rock some 2000 years ago with a refinement that is scarcely believable.
From the postcards, you'd think this was what you'd come to see. But it's just the beginning. Petra is a vast archaeological site, most of it still unexcavated; you could spend days exploring the ruins and still not see it all. It was built by the Nabataeans, an Arab tribe who began as tent-dwelling Bedouin but soon came to dominate the most lucrative trade of the ancient world: incense. They used the money to create this city and to build an empire that extended from the Red Sea to Damascus. They also absorbed architectural ideas from Egypt, from the Babylonians, and from the Greek cities of the Mediterranean, using them to create the hybrid culture that you see in these ruins. The Temple of the Winged Lions, the High Place of Sacrifice, the Roman theatre, the Garden Tomb, the Byzantine church - any one of these monuments would be an archaeological treasure in its own right; in Petra, you can explore them one after another, and find them all set into one of the finest desert landscape in the Middle East.
From Petra you'll continue south by road to the Kempinski Resort on the shores of the Red Sea at Aqaba, where you'll stay for the next three nights.
Aqaba is a great place to take it easy, relax on the beach, or swim or snorkel in the warm waters of the Red Sea. This ocean offers clear, warm waters and some of the finest coral reefs in the world. It has made Aqaba a great destination for scuba divers as well as more casual water sports enthusiasts. The town is a lively, laid back kind of place, with beautiful views over the Red Sea and year-round sunshine.
For optional excursions please find the details below.
Day 5: PETRA AND AQABA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI AQABA
Today you'll be driven from the Dead Sea south to Aqaba. Along the way you'll stop to spend most of the day exploring the magnificent lost city of Petra.
No matter how many times you've seen it reproduced on film, nothing can really prepare you for the first glimpse of Petra. The classic entry to the city takes you through the long twilight of the siq, a narrow canyon that twists for more than a mile through the red sandstone, and then stuns you into silence with the sunlit façade of the Treasury, a monument cut into the rock some 2000 years ago with a refinement that is scarcely believable.
From the postcards, you'd think this was what you'd come to see. But it's just the beginning. Petra is a vast archaeological site, most of it still unexcavated; you could spend days exploring the ruins and still not see it all. It was built by the Nabataeans, an Arab tribe who began as tent-dwelling Bedouin but soon came to dominate the most lucrative trade of the ancient world: incense. They used the money to create this city and to build an empire that extended from the Red Sea to Damascus. They also absorbed architectural ideas from Egypt, from the Babylonians, and from the Greek cities of the Mediterranean, using them to create the hybrid culture that you see in these ruins. The Temple of the Winged Lions, the High Place of Sacrifice, the Roman theatre, the Garden Tomb, the Byzantine church - any one of these monuments would be an archaeological treasure in its own right; in Petra, you can explore them one after another, and find them all set into one of the finest desert landscape in the Middle East.
From Petra you'll continue south by road to the Kempinski Resort on the shores of the Red Sea at Aqaba, where you'll stay for the next three nights.
Aqaba is a great place to take it easy, relax on the beach, or swim or snorkel in the warm waters of the Red Sea. This ocean offers clear, warm waters and some of the finest coral reefs in the world. It has made Aqaba a great destination for scuba divers as well as more casual water sports enthusiasts. The town is a lively, laid back kind of place, with beautiful views over the Red Sea and year-round sunshine.
For optional excursions please find the details below.
Day 6: PETRA AND AQABA
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: KEMPINSKI AQABA
Today you'll be driven from the Dead Sea south to Aqaba. Along the way you'll stop to spend most of the day exploring the magnificent lost city of Petra.
No matter how many times you've seen it reproduced on film, nothing can really prepare you for the first glimpse of Petra. The classic entry to the city takes you through the long twilight of the siq, a narrow canyon that twists for more than a mile through the red sandstone, and then stuns you into silence with the sunlit façade of the Treasury, a monument cut into the rock some 2000 years ago with a refinement that is scarcely believable.
From the postcards, you'd think this was what you'd come to see. But it's just the beginning. Petra is a vast archaeological site, most of it still unexcavated; you could spend days exploring the ruins and still not see it all. It was built by the Nabataeans, an Arab tribe who began as tent-dwelling Bedouin but soon came to dominate the most lucrative trade of the ancient world: incense. They used the money to create this city and to build an empire that extended from the Red Sea to Damascus. They also absorbed architectural ideas from Egypt, from the Babylonians, and from the Greek cities of the Mediterranean, using them to create the hybrid culture that you see in these ruins. The Temple of the Winged Lions, the High Place of Sacrifice, the Roman theatre, the Garden Tomb, the Byzantine church - any one of these monuments would be an archaeological treasure in its own right; in Petra, you can explore them one after another, and find them all set into one of the finest desert landscape in the Middle East.
From Petra you'll continue south by road to the Kempinski Resort on the shores of the Red Sea at Aqaba, where you'll stay for the next three nights.
Aqaba is a great place to take it easy, relax on the beach, or swim or snorkel in the warm waters of the Red Sea. This ocean offers clear, warm waters and some of the finest coral reefs in the world. It has made Aqaba a great destination for scuba divers as well as more casual water sports enthusiasts. The town is a lively, laid back kind of place, with beautiful views over the Red Sea and year-round sunshine.
For optional excursions please find the details below.
Day 7: MADABA AND MA'IN
MEALS: BREAKFAST, DINNER
ACCOMMODATION: EVASON MA'IN HOTSPRINGS
After breakfast you'll head north again by road to explore Madaba, a lively little town not far from Amman. It's famous for the mosaic map of the Holy Land that was found on the floor of a ruined Byzantine church. The map, made around 560 C.E., depicts the whole region in startlingly accurate detail, from the fish in the River Jordan to the streets of Jerusalem, and offers a vivid insight into the world of the first Christian pilgrims who toured late Roman Palestine. Many visitors see the map and move on, but there are other wonderful mosaics in Madaba and you'll get the chance to explore the best of them in the nearby archaeological park.
From here it's not a long drive down to the Evason Ma'in Hot Springs and Six Senses Resort. Ma'in is unique: a natural spa of hot springs and waterfalls hidden in the desert mountains above the Dead Sea. This is a perfect place to relax, swim, and treat yourself to some therapeutic pampering.
Day 8: DEPARTURE
MEALS: BREAKFAST
A single group transfer will be provided from your hotel to AMM Airport - a 60-minute drive. We wish you a safe homeward journey and hope to see you again in Jordan soon.
Sorry, there are no departure dates set for this trip.
Inclusions
Transportation
Point to point transportation according to the itinerary above in a private car with an English speaking driver. Gas included. (the driver is not a guide).
Accommodation
7nts in 5 star resorts.
Meals
7 Breakfasts, 1 Dinner. (As per itinerary above; B= Breakfast, D= Dinner)
Entrance fees
1 day pass to Petra, entrance to Apostles Church and Archeiological Museum in Madaba, entrance to St. George Church in Madaba.
Exclusions
Flights
Visa to Jordan
Travel insurance
Drinks
Tips
