Jordan Sacred Journey: Exploring Religious Sites – 8 Days – 7 Nights

Detailed Itinerary

Day (1): Amman Airport - Amman Overnight (35 K.M)

Your Jordan holidays will begins with your arrival to Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA). Our representative from Bebek Travel will meet clients and assist them through visa procedures, luggage identification, transfer to Amman for overnight.

Overnight in Amman Hotel.

Day (2): Amman – Amman City tour – Al Salt City tour – Amman (60 K.M)

Morning after breakfast, start by visiting Amman the Capital of Jordan, visit the Citadel , Roman Theatre, and old downtown. Transfer to the old town Al-Salt, its one of Jordan’s longest continuously inhabited cities, it contains a remarkable architectural and civic heritage including many recently opened museums.

Overnight in Amman Hotel

Day (3): Amman – Um Qais – Pella – Amman (240 K.M)

Morning after breakfast, Head further north to Umm Qais, the antic Gadara, with its Hellenistic-Roman remains. According to the Bible, Jesus healed here demoniacs and the demons running as swine into the Sea of Galilee. From Gadara you have a magnificent view over this Sea, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights. transfer to visit Pella where you can see the remains of a Chalcolithic settlement the 4th millennium BC, Byzantine churches and houses and a small medieval mosque. Overnight in Amman Hotel.

Day (4): Amman – Jerash – Anjara – Mar Elias – Amman (160 K.M)

Morning after breakfast, transfer to Jerash Roman City to discover the Roman Columns Street, Temple of Artemis. Transfer to Anjara (Lady of The Mount Church) – Small town in the north-west of Jordan, the place where it is believed that Jesus Christ, his disciples, and the Virgin Mary, passed through in the hills of Gilead, and rested in a cave there during a journey between the Sea of Galilee, the Decapolis Cities, Bethany Beyond the Jordan and Jerusalem. Major highlight is a shrine built in 1950 by the Latin Catholic and became a station on the Pilgrimage great road. Tall Mar Elias – A small natural hill, outside of Ajloun city, it is believed to be hometown and the birth place of Profit Elijah, an ancient site on the pilgrimage road. The major highlight: Mar Elias Monastery which is the place from which the Prophet Elijah ascended to heaven, a Basilica has one of the largest Byzantine churches in Jordan and with series of tombs beneath, and colorful mosaic floors

Overnight in Amman Hotel.

Day (5): Amman – Madaba – Mt.Nebo – Um Rassas – Petra (280 K.M)

Morning after breakfast, transfer to Madaba Ctity to discover St. George Church, the mosaic map of the Holy Land from Byzantine times. Transfer to Mount Nebo, the place where Moses overlooked to Holy Land but did not enter it. Transfer to Um El Rassas – Kastron Mefaa (as in the Roman Era) or Mephaat (as mentioned in Holy Bible old & new testament), located 30 KM at the Kings’ Road south of Madaba, Umm Er-Rasas was inhabited since the Iron Age 700 BC, and became Roman Station Castle and a complex of Byzantine Rich inhabitation. Major highlights: St. Stephan Church Complex, The Monk-Tower Stylite, 16 Churches (i.e. Twins Churches, Lions Church, Bishops Church’s, Square-Tower Church), the churches’ Markets, The underground cistern.

Overnight in Petra Hotel.

Day (6): Petra – Petra visit – Wadi Rum (110 K.M)

Morning after breakfast, start with visit Petra, as known the Red Rose City as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Transfer to Wadi Rum, 1.5 hr drive to desert, one of the most impressing desert landscapes in the world. Get a glimpse of this vast area with its sand dunes, rock inscriptions, mountains and canyons during a jeep tour. After experiencing the sunset

Overnight in Desert Camp.

Day (7): Wadi Rum – Baptism – Dead Sea (365 K.M)

Morning after Bedouin breakfast, Transfer to Baptism Site, as known Biblical “Bethany Beyond the Jordan.” The area is where John was living when he baptized Jesus, its also welcomes pilgrims from all around the world. Transfer to Dead Sea, swim and relax at the salty water, try the mud bath, enjoy the sunshine at the lowest point on earth.

Overnight in Dead Sea Resort

Day (8): Dead Sea - Amman Airport Departure (60 K.M)

Morning after breakfast , according to your flight time, transfer to Queen Alia International Airport for departure.