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Jordan

DAY 1 MADRID – AMMAN Meet at the agreed upon time to embark on a special flight with Royal Jordanian Airlines to Amman. Night on board.

DAY 2 AMMAN – AJLUN – JERASH – AMMAN Breakfast. Departure for Ajlun, where is found one of the most representative castles of Arabic architecture constructed in the year 1184. Continuation to the city of Jerash, one of the cities of the Decapolis to the North of Amman. We will visit the Triumphal Arch, the Oval Forum, the Cardo Maximus, the Colonnade, the Temple of Aphrodite and finally, the Roman theater, with marvelous acoustics. Lunch in a local restaurant. Return to Amman. Transfer to the hotel. Dinner and lodging.

DAY 3 AMMAN – CASTLE OF THE DESERT – AMMAN Breakfast. Morning panoramic tour of Amman in which we will be able to stroll along the most important avenues, the Citadel, the urban center and the Roman theater. Departure for the Castles of the Desert where we will take a walk through the territories where the Arabs built the castles as fortresses and places of defense. Lunch during the excursion. Return to Amman. Dinner and lodging.

DAY 4 AMMAN – MADABA – MOUNT NEBO – WADI MUJIB – KERAK – PETRA Breakfast. Departure for Madaba, nearby town 35 km from Amman, to visit the Orthodox Church of Saint George, where is found the first mosaic-map of Palestine. Continuation to Mount Nebo to admire the panoramic view of the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea from the mountain and the mosaics of the hermitage. Departure for Kerak via Wadi Al Mujib. Lunch. Tour of the medieval Castle from the 12th century whose galleries, towers, Chapels and baluarts evoke the knightly spirit of the crusades. Continue to Petra. Arrival. Transfer to the hotel. Dinner and lodging.

DAY 5 PETRA Breakfast and full day with lunch to visit the pink city, the capital of the Nabataeans. During the tour, we will get to know the most important and representative monuments sculpted in the rock by the Nabataeans. The Treasury, famous and internationally renown monument taken to the screen in one of the Indiana Jones films, the Tombs of colors, the Royal Tombs, the theater, the Monastery. Petra is one of those places in the world to which one most go at least once in one’s life. Return to the hotel. Dinner and lodging.

DAY 6 PETRA – WADI RUM – AQABA Breakfast. Departure from Petra for the coastal city of Aqaba, traveling through the desert of Wadi Rum. Lunch in a local restaurant. We will leave in 4×4 across lunar landscapes that has left erosion through the years and we can savor a traditional bedouin tea. We will have an exquisite dinner in a Bedouin tent with a small show. Continuation to Aqaba. Lodging.

DAY 7 AQABA – BETHANY – DEAD SEA Breakfast. Morning free in Aqaba. Departure for Bethany to continue to the Dead Sea. Lunch in the Dead Sea and afternoon free for mud baths and to enjoy the facilities. Dinner and lodging.

DAY 8 DEAD SEA – AMMAN – MADRID Breakfast. Morning free to continue enjoying the facilities of the hotel and the waters of the Dead Sea. Opcionally, we can take an excursion to Um-Qais and Pella, other cities in the Decapolis located in the North of the country. Lunch. Transfer to the airport of Amman at the specified time of to embark on a special flight with Royal Jordanian Airlines to Madrid. Arrival in Madrid and END OF TRIP