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Petra - Wadi Rum Tour 2 days / 1 night(30/4-1/5/2015)

Departure from Irbid on Thursday Morning  (April 30) to Wadi Rum, stay one night in Petra, take a  full day tour in Perta and go back to the Hotel on Friday afternoon).  Please Download the  trip program:PTERA-WADI RUM-TRIP.docx

 For this trip, you may pay at the conference site during registration; Excluding the entrance fees, the expected price it is about (70 JOD) which include: transportation, the dinner at Wadi Rum, accommodation for one night and breakfast at the hotel in Petra. The entrance ticket  to Petra is 50 JOD for non-Jordanians.

Petra was known as the rose red city half as old as time. Described as one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage, and included in BBC’s one of the 40 places you have to see before you die. The tour includes visiting the site of Petra, the Roman Theater, the ancient Tombs of Petra, having lunch in the city center and having some free time to walk around and do some shopping if you like.

Petra:  One of the Seven Wonders of the World, Jordan
Petra is considered the most famous and gorgeous site in Jordan located about 262 km south of Amman and 133 km north of Aqaba. It is the legacy of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago. Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is now a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the New 7 Wonders of the World that enchants visitors from all corners of the globe.

 Wadi Rum, known as The Valley of the Moon, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan and it is the largest valley in Jordan.Wadi Rum, one of the most impressing desert landscapes in the world and we get to see the desert sunset. Here Bedouins live in a traditional way and you experience their warmth by spending the night at a Bedouin Camp. Jordan’s most memorable natural sight, Wadi Rum is Lawrence of Arabia-land, where the British officer stayed in 1917 and much of the famous film was shot. Expansive red earth deserts capes vie for your attention with rugged sandstone mountains that unexpectedly rear up, sheer cliffs overlooking sand seas. The sculpting wind has created a rich gallery: rock bridges and arches, perfect smoothed domes atop towering pillars, and a spider’s-web of gnarled canyons and gorges. As romantic a place as you’ll find on earth, this is also a world class climbing destination, and a wild desolate place to hike. Above all, however, Wadi Rum is simply a difficult place to say goodbye to.

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Free Trip to Umm Qais: 27/4 ​   Umm Qais, situated 110 km north of Amman on a broad promontory 378 meters above sea level with a magnificent view over the Yarmouk River, the Golan Heights, and Lake Tiberias, this town was known as Gadara, one of the most brilliant ancient Greco-Roman cities of the Decapolis. In ancient times, Gadara was strategically situated, laced by a number of key trading routes connecting Syria and Palestine. It was blessed with fertile soil and abundant rainwater. This town also flourished intellectually in the reign of Augustus and became distinguished for its cosmopolitan atmosphere, university's scholars, attracting writers, artists, philosophers and poets, the likes of satirist Menippos (2nd half of the 3rd century BC), the epigrammist Meleagros, and the rhetorician Theodoros (14-37 AD). Gadara was also the resort of choice for Romans vacationing in the nearby Himmet Gader Springs.

Free Trip to Jerash: 29/4​                    A close second to Petra on the list of favorite destinations in Jordan is the ancient city of Jerash, which boasts an unbroken chain of human occupation dating back more than 6,500 years.  Jerash lies on a plain surrounded by hilly wooded areas and fertile basins. Conquered by General Pompey in 63 BC, it came under Roman rule and was one of the ten great Roman cities of the Decapolis League. The city's golden age came under Roman rule, during which time it was known as Gerasa, and the site is now generally acknowledged to be one of the best-preserved Roman provincial towns in the world. Hidden for centuries in sand before being excavated and restored over the past 70 years, Jerash reveals a fine example of the grand, formal provincial Roman urbanism that is found throughout the Middle East, comprising paved and colonnaded streets, soaring hilltop temples, handsome theatres, spacious public squares and plazas, baths, fountains and city walls pierced by towers and gates.

 

 

​Optional: One-Day Trip to the Dead Sea (Details to be annouced later)	​