Your Itinerary
Day 1: Amman
Our representative will meet and assist upon arrival to Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) Amman. Our group coordinator will assist through all costumes and immigration procedures, passport formalities and Visa handling, welcomed by guides followed by bus transfer to hotel in Amman.
Day 2: The Secrets Of The Mobabites Mountains. Macheron (Mekawir)(Mount Nebo – Madab - Amman)
A full Buffet breakfast at the hotel 8.00 am check-out for full day excursion trip, driving via the Kings’ Highway one of the oldest roads in world, spectacular drive through wadi Al wala a tributary of the Mojib and which lower down is named Wadi el Heidan to Dhiban the site attracted the attention of scholars when the Moabite stone, an inscribed stele set up by Mesha, king of Moab about 835 B.C., Dhiban was captured from the Moabites by Sihon king of the Amorites.
Next transfer via Wadi Al Mujib or the king’s highway to Macheron or Mekawir is the site of Herod’s Palace, where one tradition has it that Solomon danced and John the Baptist was beheaded. Visit the site of Herod the Great, then to Mount Nebo the site of the Tomb of Moses. From here Where Moses viewed the Promised Land in Canaan, and where he died and was buried in a nearby valley. Here there are ruins of 4th and 6th c. churches whose floors are still covered with marvelous mosaic.
Afterwards to Madaba this town has a long history, being first mentioned in the Bible and in the Mesha Stele when it was a Moabite town, visit St. George orthodox Christian church the mosaic Map of Jerusalem, Palestine, Jordan, Israel & Egypt. Madaba is famous as a land of mosaics, evening back to Amman dinner and O/N Amman.
Day 3: A Day of Contrasts (Amman City Tour - Bethany - Dead Sea – Amman)
A full Buffet Breakfast at the hotel 8:00 am start a full day excursion, highlights of Amman the Capital of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, the city was known in the Iron age as Rabbath Ammon, and later Philadelphia, city tour of Amman (Ancient Philadelphia, Citadel, Temple of Hercules, Roman Theatre, Nymphaeum, King Abdullah Mosque [Blue Mosque] & the Ummayad Palace, afterwards transfer down by side of the river Jordan to Bethany: The site of John the Baptist's settlement at Bethany beyond the Jordan Where Jesus was baptized, has long been Known from the Bible (John 1:28 and 10:40 and from the Byzantine and medieval texts.
The site has now been identified on the east bank of the Jordan River in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is being systematically surveyed excavated restored, and prepared to receive pilgrims and visitors in early 2000. After Visit Continuo to the Dead Sea the lowest point on the earth 409 meters below sea level for swimming and free afternoon, after unset transfer to Amman for dinner and O/N.
Day 4: A full Buffet Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Departure.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Included:
1. Meet and assist upon arrival and departure.
2. Accommodation in 4 stars hotels on H/B basis.
3. Transportation in deluxe A/C tourist coaches.
4. Guide: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, French, Japanese & Arabic language throughout the program.
5. Visa to Jordan.
6. Tours to all sites in the program.
7. Entrance fees to all sites.
Excluded:
1. Tips.
2. Lunches.
3. Airport Tax.
Also see tour packages in:
Middle East
Jordan
Pilgrimage/Spirituality
Biblical Tours
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