Arrive at Amman Queen Alia International Airport where you will met and transferred to uour hotel for two nights
After breakfast, drive to the River Jordan to visit Wadi al Karrat, where John the Baptist lived and the traditional site where the Christ Jesus was baptised. Afterwards, we drive on to the Dead Sea and have the opportunity to float on the sea befire returning to Amman for dinner and our overnight stay.
Day Three
Today we take a drive on the King's Highway, which is one of the world's oldest trade routes. We will visit Madaba and Mount Nebo, the burial place of Moses. After lunch, we continue on to Petra visiting the Crusadre Castle of Kerak en route. We arrive at Wadi Mousa, the agteway to Petra and check into our hotel for the next two nights.
Full day tour of the Pink City of Petra, one of the most ancient cities in the world with its wonderful desert views. After dinner we will have the opportunity to join the "Petra by Night" experience.
After breakfast, depart for Queen Alia International Airport, Amman for our return flight to London.
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The Kings Highway is the world's oldest continuously used communication route. It linked ancient Bashan, Giliad and Ammon in the north with Moab, Edom, Paran and Midian in the south.
Moses asked the King of Edom if he and his people could "go along the Kings Highway" during their journey to Canaan, but his request was refused. The Kings Highway is also mentioned in an earlier story in Genesis 14:5-8, in relation to the four Kings from the north, who attacked Soddom and Gomorrah and the three other Cities of the Plain.
The ancient city of Petra is one of Jordan's national treasures and by far its best known tourist attraction. Located approximately three hours south of Amman, Petra is the legacy of the Nabataens, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago. Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is now a UNESCO world heritage site that enchants visitors from all corners of the globe. Much of Petra's appeal comes from its spectacular setting deep inside a narrow desert gorge. The site is accessed by walking through a kilometre long chasm (or siq), the walls of which soar 200 metres upwards. Petra's most famous monument, the Treasury, appears dramatically at the end of the siq. Used in the final sequence of the film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", the towering facade of the Treasury is only one of myriad archaeological wonders to be explored at Petra. Various walks and climbs reveal literally hundreds of buildings, tombs, baths, funerary halls, temples, arched gateways, colonnaded streets and haunting rock drawings - as well as a 3000 seat open air theatre , a gigantic first century Monastery and a modern archeological museum, all of which can be explored at leisure. A modest shrine commemorating the death of Aaron, brother of Moses, was built in the 13th century by the Mamluke Sultan, high atop mount Aaron in the Sharah range.
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