All of Jordan with impact
Duration
10 night 11 days
Program including
Program including:
Meet and assist upon arrival and departure
Airport representative (Day 01 + Day 11)
Transportation (Day 01- Day 11) – (02 pax /car – 03-5 pax / VAN – 06-08 pax / HIC – 09-17 pax / Small bus)
Accommodation 06 nights in Amman at 3* hotels
Accommodation 01 nights in Dead Sea at 4* hotels
Accommodation 01 night in Al Karak at 3* hotels
Accommodation 01 night in Petra at 3* hotels
Accommodation 01 night in Wadi Rum at 3* camps
Breakfast and dinner at Hotels
Entry fees to all sites mentioned at program
Licensed guide as per program (Day 01-Day 10)
Visit National Women’s committee in Amman – Day02
Lunch with women’s and Children’s at local association – Day 02
Lunch at Fatima guest house – day 03
Visit a local farm – day 03
Local lunch meal from local farms – day 04
Donationforlocalorganisation – day 04
Lunch in Azraq rest house – Day 5
Activity with Azraq women’s – experiment on cloth – day 05
Lunch in Swemeh village with local – day 06
Visit Bani Hamida weaving center – day 07
Lunch – cooking handmade – day 07
Hiking trail in Dana – Dana village trail – Day 08
Lunch with local in dana with local – day 08
Lunch at Um Sayhoun village with local – day 09
02 hours Jeep ride in Wadi Rum
Workshop cooking and lunch with local in Wadi Rum at Disi Basin Villages Women Association– bedouyat.com – Day 10
Jordan Visa (passport copies, flight details needed)
Bottled water daily
Program excluded
Program excluded:
Personal expenses
Tips for guides, driver, locals ..etc
Airline tickets
Optionalactivities
donations for local associations not mentioned above
Anyextrasnotmentionedabove
Itinerary
Day 1 Amman airport/ Amman hotel
Arrival to Queen Alia Airport Amman. Visa procedures upon arrival (we will arrange it free if the passport list was provided 1 week prior to arrival date). Transfer to your hotel in Amman for overnight.
Meals: none.
Day 2: Amman city tour
Breakfast at hotel, then start a full day city tour of Amman, including the Citadel, the Roman Amphitheater, the Souq in the Down Town. Proceed to visit King Abdullah Mosque.
We will also visit the National Women’s Committee, where you will hear about their contribution to amending Jordanian laws, keeping pace with international legislation, their work with the Jordanian House of Representatives and ensuring a suitable work environment for women and children. We will enjoy our lunch with them. https://www.women.jo/ar
Back to Amman for overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 3: Amman – Salt – Amman
Today, we will have an early breakfast and head to Salt. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee added As-Salt “The place of tolerance and urban hospitality” to its World Heritage List to become the sixth Jordanian landmark to be declared a world heritage site.
On the way to Salt, we will visit a local farm and help with some daily activities, for instance collecting their crops (depending on the season): grapes, tomatoes, olives, melon and more. After our farming visit, we will enjoy visiting the old city of Salt (the Archeological museum, the Great Mosque, Al Khader Orthodox Church, Al Hamman Street, the heritage houses and the old shops). During the visit, you will have your lunch at ‘Fatima Guesthouse Traditional Food’, a local family from Salt who prepare very nice traditional dishes.
Overnight in Al Salt city.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 4: Amman – Jerash – Dibbeen – Amman
After breakfast, on the way to Jerash, we willstop at King Talal Dam view point, to have a panoramic view on the surrounding area.
Continue to Jerash: a close second to Petra on the list of favorite destinations in Jordan, the ancient city of Jerash boasts an unbroken chain of human occupation dating back more than 6,500 years and is only about 45km north of Amman. And because of its water the site has been settled at least since Neolithic times. The city’s golden age came under Roman rule and the site is now generally acknowledged to be one of the best-preserved Roman provincial towns in the world and one of the Decapolis cities once named Gerasa.
Visit of the archeological site (The Roman Amphitheatre, the Oval Plaza and the Colonnaded Street).
We will then continue to Dibbeen Forest reserve. Along the way we will buy some ingredients from the local farms to use in preparing ourlocal lunch meal.
After lunch, we will visitAlMa’Wa for Nature and Wildlife and learn about their mission and efforts to protect and preserve Jordanian wildlife. In order to support their activities, we will make a donation on your behalf.
If time permits, head to Anjara to visit the Church of ‘Lady of the Mountain’.
Transfer back to your hotel in Amman, overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 5: Amman – Qasr Amra – Amman
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the east of the country, to visit the QaseAmra: in 1978, RSCN established Azraq Wetland Reserve to conserve the uniquely precious oasis located in the heart of Jordan’s eastern desert, between a limestone desert in the west and a basalt desert in the east. It has an area of 74 km2. It is distinguished by lush marshland and natural water collections that form glittering pools and streams, giving Azraq its name, which is the Arabic world for “blue”.
Azraq Wetlands Reserve is a location of rich biodiversity, with 350 species of migratory and resident birds, more than 133 species of plants and more than 163 species of invertebrates, 18 species of mammals, 11 species of reptiles, 15 species of dragonflies, and two types of amphibians.
Lunch in the Azraq Rest House
We will have the opportunity to visit local women in Azraq who paint on the ostrich eggs, this activity became a sustainable activity for several local women of Azraq. As a visitor, you will experiment this technique not on ostrich eggs, but on a piece of cloth.
Back to Amman, for overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Day 6: Amman – Mount Nebo – Bethany – Dead Sea
Breakfast at hotel, transfer to Mount Nebo: it is most known for being the site where Moses overlooked the Holy Land but did not enter it and where a church and a monastery were built to honor him.
Visit the site then continue to Bethany (the Baptism Site): Home to several biblical cities including Sodom, Gomorrah, and Zoar, the archaeological discoveries between the Jordan River and Tal al-Kharrar have identified this area as Biblical “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”. The area is where John was living when he baptized Jesus.
Lunch in Sweihem village (around the Dead Sea) with the locals.
Proceed to the Dead Sea: A spectacular natural wonder at 427 meters below sea level. The leasing attraction at the Dead Sea is the warm, soothing, super salty water itself – some ten times saltier than sea water, and rich in chloride salts of magnesium, sodium, potassium, bromine and several others.
We will take some time to pick up any trash we come across at the beach, after which you will have free time at the Dead Sea to enjoy a fresh clean beach. Overnight at hotel (Dead Sea hotels are all situated at the hotels area on the beach – around 60km from Amman.
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 7: Dead Sea – Bani Hamida Weaving Center – Madaba – Kerak
After an early breakfast, we will head to Machaerusat 7:30am to visit the Bani Hamida Weaving Centre (in the governate of Madaba) to participate in a weaving workshop with the working women.
We will then proceed to Carob House in Madaba to participate in cooking homemade food for our lunch. Please note that this workshop requires a minimum of 4 people and needs to be requested well in advance(unavailable in weekends and on public holidays – please enquire upon booking for availability).
Proceed to Kerak via Wadi Mujib, visit the castle. Overnight in Kerak.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Day 8: Kerak – Dana Reserve – Shobak – Petra
After breakfast, you will participate in a cleaning activity of the Jubilee Forest of Kerak.
Proceed to Dana Reserve: Start the Dana village tour (up to 2 hours – Hiking trails availability is based on guides’ availability and suitable weather conditions).
Dana village tour details:(Year-round) guided or self-guided. Grade: Easy. Distance: 2 km – Time: 1-1.5 hours. Starting time: 08:00 am – 3:00 pm from the Dana Guesthouse.
Description: starting from the Dana Guesthouse, this trail winds above Dana Village and through the terraced gardens and local craft workshops. Visitors can meet the local residents, see original Ottoman architecture and learn more about Dana’s rich history.
Lunch with the locals in Dana village.
Proceed to Shobak: visit the castle and then transfer to Petra for the overnight.
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner
Day 9: Petra – Wadi Rum
After breakfast, proceed to the visitor center, enter the site of Petra from the main gate, you will pass through the Siq before discovering the Treasury, then continue to the Street of Wajhat (Facades Street), the amphitheater, the tomb, the palace, the church.
After our visit to Petra, we will go to Al-Taybeh village in Wadi Mousa to participate with the local women in their pottery workshop.You will find out that it takes a lot of skill to do pottery!
We will then participate with a local family in Um Sayhoun village to cook a lunch.
Continue to Wadi Rum for overnight.
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Day 10: Wadi Rum – Amman
Breakfast in the camp, then start a two-hour jeep tour inside the desert of Wadi Rum.
After enjoying our Wadi Rum tour, we will participate in a cooking workshop with the local people to prepare our lunch and enjoy it with them.
After lunch, we will participate in a cleaning activity inside the desert to help preserve this beautiful natural environment.
Transfer back to Amman for the overnight.
Meals: breakfast, lunch.
Day 11 Amman airport
Breakfast at the hotel and drop off at the airport.