Seven nights with a private guide and driver: Roman Jerash from Amman, two full days in Petra, a night under the stars in the Wadi Rum desert, and two slow days floating in the Dead Sea to finish.
Open any day for the detail. Everything here can move: add a night, swap a hotel, change the order.
Land in Amman in the afternoon and settle into a hotel in the older part of the city. An evening walk up to the Citadel for the view across the hills as the lights come on.
Drive north to Jerash, one of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities anywhere, with its oval plaza, colonnaded street and two theatres. Back in Amman, lunch in a family-run restaurant downtown.
Drive south along the Kings Highway, stopping at Madaba for its mosaic map. Enter Petra early the next morning through the Siq to the Treasury, then climb the steps to the Monastery while the tour groups stay below.
Head into the red sand and sandstone mountains of Wadi Rum by jeep with a Bedouin driver, stopping at rock inscriptions and dunes. Dinner is cooked in the sand, and the night sky is very dark.
A long drive north to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on land. Float in the salt water, cover yourselves in mud, and walk the Wadi Mujib gorge trail if you have the energy.
A drive up out of the Jordan Valley to Queen Alia airport for the flight home to London Heathrow.
Walk the Siq by candlelight to the Treasury on one of the evenings the site opens after dark.
Add two nights on the Red Sea at Aqaba after Wadi Rum for snorkelling on the coral reef.
Planned for March to May and September to November, when Jordan is at its best. Outside those months it still works, with different trade-offs; ask us.
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