Jordan Combined Details
Day 01: Aqaba International Airport – Aqaba Hotel
Meals: Dinner.
Arrival at the Aqaba International Airport in Amman, our airport representative will wait for you before the immigration desk holding a sign with your name and will assist you with the visa procedures to get your free tourist visa (please don’t miss him and don’t proceed without him). Our airport representative will walk with you through customs and to the luggage hall, then you will be transferred to your hotel in Aqaba for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 02: Aqaba Hotel – Petra Visit – Amman Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner.
After breakfast, visit the Nabatean Red-Rose city of Petra, one of the 7 world wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Enter the city through a 1KM long narrow gorge which is flanked either side by 80m high cliffs! Notice the dazzling colors and formations of the rocks. The site is massive, and contains hundreds of elaborate rock-cut tombs, a treasury, Roman-style theatres, temples, sacrificial altars and colonnaded streets. Ending the day with a transfer to Amman for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 03: Amman Hotel – Amman City Tour (Citadel + The Roman Theatre) – Jerash – North Border (Sheikh Hussein Border) – Tiberius Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, you will enjoy visiting the capital of the country – Amman, where on a hill housing the remains of a once powerful citadel, we will visit, among others, the Archeological Museum. From the top of the hill, we will be able to watch the panorama of the city, including the Roman theater and the Odeon, i.e., the ancient philharmonic hall. Then we will go to Jerash (the forum, the temple of Artemis, early Christian churches with floor mosaics, the hippodrome and, above all, the street of 600 columns). We continue our journey towards the Jordanian Israeli border (North Border / Sheikh Hussein Border). After border clearance, drive to Tiberias. Check-in, dinner and overnight at a hotel in Tiberias or the surrounding area.
Day 04: Tiberius Hotel – Tabgha – Boat cruise – Nazareth Hotel (optional: Golan heights trip)
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, an optional trip to the Golan Heights (additionally payable – approx. USD 40). During which you will be able to enjoy a delicious dinner with St. Peter’s Square (additional fee of approx. USD 30). Then we will visit places associated with important events for Christians: Small Tabgha – the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter, where Jesus Christ indicated the apostle Peter as his successor on earth, Capernaum – the place of residence of Jesus mentioned many times in the Bible, and the Mount of the Beatitudes (the place of the so-called Sermon on the Mount). On this day we will visit a kibbutz – a specific Israeli form of “cooperative”. Boat trip on the Sea of Galilee to Tiberias. Dinner and overnight at a hotel in Tiberias or Nazareth (or the surrounding area).
Day 05: Nazareth Hotel – Acre – Haifa – Caesarea – Tel Aviv – Jaffa – Bethlehem Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, check out of the hotel and drive to Acre (UNESCO list) – a picturesque old town where we will visit the Crusader fortress. Then we will go to Haifa, where we will see the spectacular Persian Baha’i Gardens (Baha’ism is a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam). Then we will go to Caesarea Maritima, a wonderful port city built by King Herod the Great, we will see, among others: a hippodrome, a theater, an aqueduct from the 2nd century and Crusader walls with a huge gate. Driving further along the Mediterranean coast, we will reach Tel Aviv (drive through the most interesting parts of the city). We will reach Jaffa – a town that remembers the events mentioned in the Old Testament. Stroll through old Jaffa. Transfer to Bethlehem / Hebron or the surrounding area; hotel accommodation, dinner and overnight stay.
Day 06: Bethlehem Hotel – Mt. of Olives – Bethlehem Tour – Bethlehem Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, drive to the Mount of Olives and visit the Basilica of All Nations located at Gethsemane, i.e. the Garden of Olives, known to Poles as Gethsemane. Then drive to the Old Town. We will pass through the Muslim quarter and the Arab bazaar along the Way of the Cross (Via Dolorosa), at the end of which there is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher with the rock of Golgotha and the Tomb of Jesus. Then we will go to the Armenian and Jewish quarters, watching the Cardo Maximus – the remains of an old Roman street along the way, and we will also reach the Wailing Wall. Transfer to Bethlehem – the birthplace of Jesus – visit to the Grotto of the Nativity and the Basilica of the Nativity built on it.
Day 07: Bethlehem Hotel – Masada – Dead Sea – Aqaba Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, departure to the Dead Sea, where we will visit Masada – the fortress of Herod the Great and at the same time the place of the zealots’ struggle – the Jewish community that resisted Rome for the longest time. Then we will visit the ancient village of the Essenes, the creators of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Shopping for cosmetics with minerals from the Dead Sea and bathing in the Dead Sea – 430 m below sea level. Passage and crossing the border with Jordan; overnight stay and dinner at a hotel in Aqaba or the surrounding area.
Day 08: Aqaba Hotel – Aqaba International Airport
Meals: Breakfast.
After breakfast, transfer to Aqaba International Airport for Departure.