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JORDAN & SAUDI ARABIA
JORDAN & SAUDI- THE CARAVAN DRIVE 12 Days / 11 Nights
12 Days from
$4,400
AlUla
This vacation package focuses on two amazing Middle Eastern locales: Jordan and Saudi. Beginning in Jordan, tour Kerak Castle, one of the largest castles in the region. Visit Petra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Jordan’s best-known tourist attraction. Enter on horseback and view the Treasury, the palaces, and the tomb. Truly one of the world’s wonders! Enjoy a 2-hour jeep safari in Wadi Rum, home to nomadic Bedouin tribes, where you will see spring, mountain, and sand dunes. Cross the border into Saudi and explore AlUla, an ancient oasis. In the old city, visit the carving sites and decipher ancient scripts. Delve into the monumental tombs of Mada’in Saleh—a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Drive up the Jebel Al Lawz, one of the highest mountains ......
Program Highlights
Hotels:
Amman: 1 Night Harir Palace or Similar
Petra: 2 Nights Petra moon or Similar
Aqaba: 1 Night Lacosta or Similar
Tabuk: 3 Nights Hilton Garden Inn or Similar
Al Ula: 1 Nights Sahary Resort or Similar
Riyadh: 3 Nights Holiday Inn Al Qasr or Similar
Includes
- 11 nights Hotel accommodation
- Meals as per itinerary
- All transfers and luggage handling within Saudi Arabia & Jordan
- All hotel taxes and service charge
- Sightseeing, including English speaking guide
- Amman City Tour
- Visit Madaba – City of Mosaics
- Visit Mount Nebo - Byzantine church
- Visit Petra – Rose Red city (UNESCO HERITAGE SITE)
- Visit High palaces & Roman style tomb
- Visit Wadi Rum – Explore Desert by 4x4 jeeps
- Visit Aqaba & Experience beaches
- Visit Jabal al Lawz – Mountain of Almonds (Tabuk)
- Explore the HISMA – Horne of unique rock formation
- Visit Wadi Qaraqir & Dissah
- Visit Ekma & Abu aoud
- Visit Hegra (Madain Saleh) – UNESCO SITE
- Visit Jabal Al-Fil (Elephant mountain)
- Visit Riyadh National museum
- Visit Murabba palace
- Passing the famous Kingdom Tower
- Explore Masmak fort
- Visit Dira souq
- Explore old city of Dirriyyah
- Explore Wadi Hanifa
- Visit Edge of the World – Tuwaiq
- Visit traditional village “Sadus of the Najd”
Excludes
- Arrival Visa
- Domestic flight
- Porterage & Tips
- Insurance: assistance, cancellation, luggage
- Beverages & meals not above mentioned
- Visits not mentioned in the program
- Personal expenses (telephones, minibar, etc.)
- Tips to the guide & driver (we suggested USD 3 per person per day for the guide and USD 2 per person per day for the driver)
- Exhibition / Event supplements, New Year, Xmas, Islamic Holiday supplements
Small Groups
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Notes
Notes
- Airfares are not included in the package and will have to be paid separately.
- Tips, laundry, telephone calls, liquor etc would all need to be settled out of pocket.
- Peak/ Festival Period surcharge applies during those periods and is mandatory - it will be added at the time of booking confirmation.
Departures & Rates
Please click here to request a quotation for your preferred dates of travel, or contact your Travel Agent
Hotels
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Arrive at Amman airport and after visa and immigration formalities, you will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel by air-conditioned vehicle. Check in & Overnight in Amman.
Start the day with breakfast at your hotel and then head on toward Petra. Along the way, stop in Madaba the city of Mosaics where you will see the oldest known mosaic map of the holy land. Here you will also discover the Madaba Archaeological Park that preserves the mosaic-rich Church of the Virgin Mary as well as artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic eras. Next, admire the view of the Jordan Valley from the famous Mount Nebo and visit its Byzantine Church. Have lunch and then we continue to Kerak, touring its Castle that showcases one of the finest examples of Crusader military construction. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region. At the end of the day, we will reach Petra for dinner and overnight. (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at the hotel and get ready for a fantastic day of exploring Petra. The ancient city of Petra is one of Jordan’s national treasures and by far its best-known tourist attraction. Petra is the legacy of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2,000 years ago. Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture, and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritages Site and one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. We will visit the rose-red city known as Sela in the Bible and lost to the world for five centuries until it was rediscovered in 1812. Inhabited by the Nabateans, Edomites and Romans, Petra brought together the knowledge and skill of these civilizations to create this world wonder We will enter Petra on horses through a narrow gorge carved in the sandstone that reveals a stunning view of the Treasury, made famous in the movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Visit the palace, the High Palaces, and the Roman-Style Palace Tomb. Enjoy lunch in Petra. Dinner and overnight hotel in Petra. (B, L, D)
Power up with breakfast at your hotel and then kick off the day with a ride to Wadi Rum Desert or “The Valley of the Moon.” Depicted as Mars in several Hollywood feature films, Wadi Rum is an Arabian fairy-tale waiting to be discovered. Home to nomadic Bedouin tribes, Wadi Rum is a quiet getaway of stars, sand, and sun – a perfect complement from Amman’s epicenter. Once inhabited by the Nabataeans of prehistoric times, Wadi Rum allows you to get lost in large landscapes. The tranquility of the desert is sure calm your spirit. Enjoy a 2-hour jeep safari in the desert of Wadi Rum, visiting the Lawrence of Arabia spring, Khazzali mountain, and sand dunes. Savor Lunch as part of the excursion. Tonight, your dinner is included as well as overnight in Wadi Rum. (B, L, D)
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and then head out this morning, to the Saudi Jordanian border Halet Ammar. After formalities at the border, we will enter Saudi and then drive to Tabuk a mystical city in constant development to meet Saudi's modern needs. Arrive in Tabuk towards the latter part of the afternoon. Check in to your hotel in Tabuk. Tonight your dinner & overnight will be in Tabuk. (B, L, D)
Start your day with breakfast at your hotel and get ready for a day of exploring AlUla, an ancient oasis that has been inhabited for the last 7000 years as evidenced by ancient carvings in and around the site. During the 1st millennium BCE, the city of Dedan developed thanks to its strategic location on the frankincense trade road. Dedan grew to become one of the oldest Arabian kingdoms that ruled over most of what today is known as the provinces of Tabuk and Madinah. During the 1st century BCE the Nabatean people coming from Petra settled 30 kilometers north of Dedan in Al-Hijr where they built 94 monumental tombs similar to the ones they dug in Petra. We will start our exciting day with the visit of two ancient carving sites in AlUla, then we will pass by the ancient city of Dedan. Your tour continues on to the Old city of AlUla that became was once an important staging post along the pilgrimage route to Mecca. On the way, enjoy lunch and then visit the ancient sites of Ekma and Abu ‘Aoud. Here, we will decipher some of the ancient scripts written by the people of the oasis. We will finish this special day on at the top of the elevated Harrat Al-Uwayrid lookout point for an amazing view of the oasis of AlUla. This afternoon you will be head back to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay in AlUla. (B, L, D)
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before visiting famous Hegra (Madain Saleh), the first designated UNESCO World Heritage site of Saudi. Madain Saleh, whose original name was Al-Hijr or Hegra in Greek, is the southernmost important city of the Nabatean Kingdom that flourished thanks to the caravan trade between the 2nd century BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE. It is the second richest Nabatean city in terms of monumental tombs with 94 decorated funeral monuments, including some of the most vibrant and well conserved structures that showcase the architectural prowess of the Nabateans builders. We will lead you through this fascinating site and share secrets of its tombs, ancient inscriptions, stone structures, and more. Our tour will be followed by an included lunch before we head towards Jibal Al-Rukkab and Leopard trail. We will then visit Jebel Al-Fil for a relaxing time next to the “Elephant rock.” At the end of the day, we hit the road to the city of Tabuk where you will enjoy dinner upon arrival. Overnight in Tabuk. (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at your hotel before discovering the area where the futuristic city of Neom is being constructed. Its name stands for “New Future” in Arabic. The area of Neom that we will explore today corresponds to the west shore of Tabuk Province. Your adventure starts at the archeological site of Madyan, an ancient city mentioned in both the Coran and the Bible. This place was by the Nabateans who built monumental tombs known by locals as the “Caves of the Prophet Shuwayb” (Mughayr Shuwayb). From there travel in the footsteps of the Prophet Moses who, according to both the Bible and the Coran, lived in Madyan for 10 years. Next, visit the Wells of Moses and the impressive Valley of Moses. From here you will enjoy sweeping views of the Sinai Mountain on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba. Late this afternoon, we will head back to the hotel in Tabuk for dinner and overnight. (B, L, D)
Breakfast at the hotel. Today we will visit a place called Hisma, which is also known as the Wadi Rum of Saudi Arabia because of its majestic grandiose formations similar to the ones found on the other side of the border with Jordan. Hisma is home to hundreds of ancient rock art and ancient inscriptions, some in pre-Islamic scripts dating back to the caravan trade, and some in old Arabic dating back to the first decades of Islam. We will have a picnic during the excursion in the middle of the magic sceneries of Hisma. In the afternoon we will drive up one of the highest mountains in Saudi, the Jebel Al Lawz, the mountain of almonds. People believe that this is the true site of the biblical Mount Sinai where Moses received the Tablets of Law. We will visit some sites that have features reminding the story of Moses. At the end of the afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight to RIYADH. After 1 hour of flight, arrival transfer and check in in your hotel. Dinner and overnight in Riyadh. (B, L, D)
Start your day with breakfast at your hotel before heading out on a tour of enchanting Riyadh. We will first visit the National Museum and become acquainted firsthand with Saudi national heritage and culture. The Museum is a place of learning and discovery, offering an overview of Arabian civilization from prehistory to the modern era. Next, we will continue on to Murabba Palace one the city's most historic structures. Savor lunch in a typical local Saudi restaurant. Then, our tour continues with a visit of Masmak Fort and its museum that shares the history of the conquest of Arabia by the Al-Saud family. The palace was built during the reign of Abdullah bin Rashid in the year 1895 A.D. to serve as a military garrison for the Abdullah bin Rashid army. His Majesty King Abdulaziz, the father of the nation today, captured the fort in 1902, making this fort the birthplace of the 3rd Saudi Kingdom. Next, visit the Dira Souq where the sweet fragrance of sandalwood fills the air. Here you can shop for antique carpets and other Saudi heritage mementos. After your excursion, head back to your hotel for dinner and overnight in Riyadh. (B, L, D)
Optional: Access to Skybridge on Kingdom Tower.
Rise and shine with breakfast at your hotel before departing of the old city of Diriyah. In the 19th century this was the capital of the high plateau of central Arabia called the Najd. Diriyah, which today is located in the outskirts of Riyadh, was built in the 15th century on the banks of Wadi Hanifa, a valley set in the eastern part of the Najd. It is one of the most important historical sites of Saudi Arabia as it is there that the history of the conquest of the Arabian Peninsula by the Al Saud family began. Savor an included lunch in the city before heading out to the Edge of The World, located along the 1000km long Tuwaiq escarpment. Here, you will enjoy dramatic views from the top of the 300-meter-high cliffs. Once at Edge of the World hike along the majestic cliffs and take in the breathtaking vistas. A traditional meal under the stars sheltered by traditional Arabian tent will be exquisitely prepared for us by local Bedouins who will share the secrets of their culture around coffee and tea. After dinner, head back to your hotel for your overnight stay in Riyadh. (B, L, D)
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and then transfer to Riyadh airport for your return flights home. (B)
