PETRA · WADI RUM · THE RED SEA
A carved city, a red desert, a sea you float on.
Petra and Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea and the reefs off Aqaba, Roman Jerash and the long road that ties them together. The day trips, private drivers and multi-day routes that get you to all of it.
Only in Jordan
The three nobody else has.
Plenty of countries have ruins, deserts and a salt lake. None of them have the walk through the Siq, a night under Wadi Rum’s towers, or water you genuinely cannot sink in. Build the trip around these three.
Through the Siq
Petra, the rose-red city
You walk a mile through a slot canyon barely wide enough for two camels, and then the rock opens and the Treasury is just there, carved forty metres straight into the cliff. The Nabataeans cut a whole city out of sandstone two thousand years ago. There is one Petra on earth, and this is the walk into it.
- 1 Amman: Petra, Wadi Rum, and Dead Sea 2-Day Tour
- 2 2-Day Tour: Petra, Wadi Rum, and Dead Sea from Amman
- 3 From Amman: Petra & Wadi Rum Private or group Day Tour
Under the stars
A night in Wadi Rum
Red sand, sandstone towers a thousand feet high, and a silence you can actually hear. Bedouin still run the camps out here. You cross the valley floor by jeep at golden hour, eat lamb cooked under the sand, and sleep where there is no light for a hundred miles to dim the stars.
- 1 From Amman: Petra and Wadi rum Full day Tour
- 2 2-Day Petra, Wadi Rum and Dead Sea Tour from Amman
- 3 3-Day Private Tour from Amman: Petra, Wadi Rum, Dana, Aqaba, and Dead Sea
The lowest point on earth
Float on the Dead Sea
Four hundred metres below sea level the water holds so much salt you cannot sink if you try. Lie back, lift your feet, float. Then coat yourself in the black mineral mud people fly across the world for. You can do this in exactly one place, and it is an hour from Amman.
- 1 Amman: Petra, Wadi Rum, and Dead Sea 2-Day Tour
- 2 Dead Sea, Nebo, Madaba & Baptism Site Private or Group Tour
- 3 From Amman: Petra, Wadi Rum and Dead Sea 3-Day Tour
The classic route
Trace Jordan, north to south.
It is a small country and essentially one long road. Most trips run the same arc: Roman ruins in the north, the capital, down past the Dead Sea to Petra and Wadi Rum, and out to the Red Sea at the very bottom. Start with any stop.
Start here
The one nearly everyone books.
If you do a single guided trip in Jordan, this tends to be it. The classic, and the one that fills up first.
The headliners
Jordan's Most Popular Tours
Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea, Jerash. The trips most people come to Jordan to take.
By type
Or pick how you want to travel.
A private driver if you want to set your own pace. A multi-day loop if you want the lot handled. Red Sea diving, boat trips, city walks, long Jordanian lunches and the rest.
Under the Red Sea
Aqaba, below the surface.
Jordan's short stretch of Red Sea coast hides some of the easiest warm-water diving anywhere: shallow coral gardens, a sunken tank and cargo plane, clear water most of the year. Three dives worth surfacing for.
The Roman north
Rome, an hour from Amman.
Jerash is one of the best-preserved Roman cities anywhere: colonnaded streets, two theatres, an oval forum you can still walk across. Add Ajloun's castle and the view from Umm Qais. The three day trips we'd run north.
The whole country
See all of it in one trip.
Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea and the Roman north, stitched into a single route with the driving handled. The multi-day trips that make the most sense when you've only got a week.
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