3-Night Private Jordan Golden Triangle Tour: Petra, Wadi Rum, and Aqaba

Day 1 Amman Hotel – Petra (D) 250 KM

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   Petra - Wadi Musa

   Your driver will pick you up at approximately 9 a.m. from your hotel in Amman, and then travel to Petra, the rose-tinged rock city in the Jordan’s Shara Mountains. After traveling for around 3.5 hours, check in to your hotel. Spend the rest of your evening at leisure. Many of Petra’s daytime visitors leave in the late afternoon, so the evening is the best time of the day to explore the streets of Wadi Mousa town of Petra at leisure. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Petra.

Day 2 Petra – Wadi Rum (B, D) 160 KM

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   Petra - Wadi Musa

   4 hours

   Enjoy a hotel pickup after breakfast, and then start your Petra sightseeing tour with a visit to the “Siq”, the city’s most dramatic natural feature. Acting as an entrance corridor, the 1-mile (1.5 KM) gorge – lined by looming sandstone cliffs leads to the center of the city. Pass its final bend and come face-to-face with Petra’s crowning glory the magnificent Treasury, called locally “El-Khazneh”, the building is famous for its colonnaded Hellenistic façade, carved into the cliff face to dramatic effect. Pose for photos in front of the monument, and then continue your tour of town, learning about the Nabataeans who built the city. Visit Petra Church – a beautiful structure, re-designed by the Byzantines and then walk around the Royal Tombs, a vast burial site just above the valley floor. Take a look inside and visit the amphitheater and imagine it in its heyday when some 3,000 people sat inside it.

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   Wadi Rum

   2 hours

   Free time to visit the Monastery or the High Place of Sacrifice.
   After a break to visit The Petra Museum and for lunch (at your own expense), return to your vehicle and travel further south to Wadi Rum, the vast desert where scenes from Lawrence of Arabia, The Martian, as well as other movies like Star Wars: The Rise of Sky Walker were filmed. Your destination is a Bedouin camp site in the middle of the desert, where you will spend the night enjoying a Bedouin dinner, and sleeping in your own private tent in Wadi Rum.

Day 3 Wadi Rum – Aqaba (B, D) 85 KM

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   Wadi Rum

   2 hours

   After breakfast, hop inside your local 4x4 jeep, and then explore Wadi Rum in a caravan convoy, traveling over red-sand dunes and around the granite mountains that punctuate the desert landscape; where movies like Lawrence of Arabia, The Martian, and Star Wars: The Rise of Sky Walker were filmed. After your 2-hour tour of the desert, return to the camp site to collect your bags and then leave Wadi Rum to Aqaba, the Red Sea.

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   Aqaba

   2 hours

   Travel to nearby Aqaba, Jordan’s sunny southern city, and then check in to your hotel. Spend the rest of your afternoon at leisure to lounge at the beach or visit the city, and then enjoy in the evening dinner and overnight at your hotel in Aqaba.

Day 4 Aqaba – Amman Hotel (B) 350 KM

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   Aqaba

   6 hours

   Enjoy breakfast and then the morning is yours to do as you please. Perhaps visit the city’s famous Ayla or Tala Bay with its beautiful resorts. Meet your driver at the pre-arranged time, check out of your hotel and travel north to Amman. Your 4-day tour finishes with a drop-off at your Amman hotel.